The Layup Line

It Pays to Have Friends

For those of you who like to connect dots, grab your pencils.

Late last week Suns GM Steve Kerr hired his former teammate Terry Porter to coach Phoenix. Porter was the only Suns coaching candidate to have this connection with Kerr. And now John Paxson, another former teammate of Kerr, hires Vinny Del Negro, Kerr’s assistant GM and—you guessed it—former teammate to coach the Bulls.  Quaint, eh?