David Griffin is now calling the shots in the New Orleans Pelicans' front office, but he has decided to spare head coach Alvin Gentry.

It was apparently a very easy decision for Griffin to keep Gentry:

Gentry has spent four seasons at the helm in New Orleans, leading the Pelicans to one playoff appearance when they won 48 games last season. New Orleans then went on to sweep the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round before falling to the Golden State Warriors.

Overall, Gentry has gone 145-183 as head coach of the Pels.

This is far from his first go-around as a head coach, either.

Gentry landed his first head coaching job all the way back in the 1994-95 campaign, when he took over the Miami Heat midseason and ended up going 15-21.

Then, four years later, he took over as Detroit Pistons head coach in the middle of the 1997-98 season and ended up spending five and a half years at that position, posting a record of 73-72 and leading the Pistons to one playoff appearance.

Gentry would then proceed to become head coach of the Phoenix Suns 31 games into the 2008-09 campaign and wound up residing as Suns coach through the middle of the 2012-13 season, going 158-144 and making one trip to the postseason in 2010, when Phoenix made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals.

The Pelicans are coming off a 2018-19 campaign in which they won just 33 games and saw superstar Anthony Davis ask for a trade.