Head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has been a fixture at Duke, but Coach K has received job offers from several NBA teams over the years.
. Phil Jackson had just stepped down after the team lost to the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals. Shaquille O’Neal was also on his way out of L.A., though Coach K turned down the offer more than a week before Shaq was officially dealt to the Heat.
While GM Mitch Kupchak made the first move to try and draw Coach K in, the team’s star player also made a pitch. “You'll never guess who called. Kobe Bryant,” Krzyzewski said at a campus gym in 2004. “He wants me to come coach him.” After 361 days and two coaches, the Lakers brought Jackson back. Rudy Tomjanovich and Frank Hamblen led the team to a 34-48 record in 2004-05 and missed the playoffs for just the second time since 1976. Jackson later coached the Lakers to back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010.Duke edged Butler in the 2010 national title game, giving Coach K his fourth championship and soon leading to another NBA job offer.
Mikhail Prokhorov was in the process of purchasing the Nets in 2010 and wasted little time before making a big swing. Despite a reported $12-15 million annually to think about, Krzyzewski didn’t budge and said he wasn’t leaving, even before an offer was formally made.Krzyzewski said at the timeThe Nets went on to hire Avery Johnson as the first coach of the Prokhorov era. Johnson went 60-116 before being fired in the middle of his third season.
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