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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 1075472, member: 1674"]
My gut feeling is that we'll eventually find out Drew wasn't nearly as in the dark as the Brooklyn media has led us to believe.  When the new owners came in a month ago, they made it clear to the last regime's personnel (including Drew and Hammond) that their jobs were not safe.

Usually when your team has playoff aspirations and you lead them to the worst record in the NBA, you're fired.  Usually when a team gets new owners, the old coach gets fired.  In this case, both of those things happened, and again, I'm pretty sure that the new owners made it clear to Larry Drew that his job would not be safe.  You could even tell in the press conference when Jabari was introduced that it looked like Larry Drew wasn't mentally there.

He wasn't officially fired until after they knew that they had Kidd, but based upon what we know, Milwaukee hadn't really planned on this whole Kidd opportunity arising.  It was just something that came up and they took advantage of the opportunity.

And on a sidenote, just last year, Atlanta told Drew that they were still considering resigning him while they went off and interviewed other candidates and nobody complained about that even though he was still under contract at the time.

And when he was an assistant in Atlanta, he went behind Mike Woodson's back to get him fired so that he could ascend the coaching ladder, and nobody cared about that either.  But because it's a small city stealing someone away from a glamorous city, now it's the worst thing that's ever been done in the NBA.
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