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I wouldn't match. Bad contracts are like a cancer to an NBA team. They hurt team chemistry. They hamstring an organization, and they tend to spread. This is significantly more money than Hayward is worth. It's a bad contract. Logic also dictates that, after 4 years, this is as about as good as...

Fair enough. I'm just trying to say that Frank Layden pushed a historically great (again my opinion) team to the brink of elimination in 1988. It was an extremely competitive series. Jerry Sloan beat some really good teams in the playoffs, but could never match what they did in 1988. The Bulls...

Right. Not what I said at all. .. but I will say that literally hundreds of coaches, given what Sloan had to work with, could have matched his success, IMO. I liked him, but he is over-hyped.

The 1988 Jazz pushed the eventual champs (the Lakers) to 7 games, almost winning game 7 in L.A. Jerry Sloan inherited this team the next season and never repeated that feat in more than 20 years.