Frank Vogel and Terry Stotts can rest easy.
For a moment, anyway.
On Monday, the NBA announced that the head coaches of the Indiana Pacers and the Portland Trail Blazers had been named the Coaches of the Month for November in the Eastern and Western Conferences, respectively.
Truth be told, neither Vogel nor Stotts was in much danger of losing his job prior to this proclamation from the league office. Vogel led the Pacers to the brink of the 2013 NBA Finals and has his team sitting pretty at 16-2, while Stotts has boosted the Blazers to a 15-3 record—the best in the West—to start his second season in Rip City.
These days, though, you never know when a coach's head might hit the chopping block. The coaching carousel was unusually active this past offseason, with a whopping 13 teams (i.e. nearly half the entire league!) choosing to make a change on the bench.
Not including the Los Angeles Lakers, who replaced Mike Brown with Mike D'Antoni early on in 2012-13.
More shocking still: seven of those 13 were on teams that qualified for the playoffs. It was an unprecedented season for ...
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