NBA players do not want to play for Tom Thibodeau and Jim Boylen if they had a choice, according to Sam Amick of The Athletic.

Thibodeau was fired by the Minnesota Timberwolves this season in January. He has a bad tendency to play his players a lot of minutes and overwork them in practice.

Boylen took over for Fred Hoiberg in December after the Chicago Bulls fired the now Nebraska coach. Boylen got off to a rough start in Chicago after he tried to run a practice following a back-to-back.

Which coach, aside from your own, would you not want to play for? (52 votes)

  1. Tom Thibodeau (34.6%)
  2. Jim Boylen (21.1%)
  3. Igor Kokoskov (11.5%)
  4. Nate McMillan (5.7%)
  5. Stan Van Gundy (4.8%)
  6. Gregg Popovich (3.8%)
  7. Lloyd Pierce, Quin Snyder, Erik Spoelstra, Rick Carlisle, Nick Nurse, Alvin Gentry, Luke Walton, Steve Clifford, Scott Skiles (2%)
  8. Jeff Van Gundy (1%)

“(Thibodeau) plays his guys so many minutes,” one player said. “They’re playing like 40 fucking minutes a game in the regular season – like, why? I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to coach.”

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