In 2006, author Jack McCallum published a landmark book on the behind-the-scenes workings of an NBA franchise, :07 Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin’ and Gunnin’ Phoenix Suns. The book was an intimate look at one of the most entertaining and intriguing basketball teams in recent history — the mid-00’s Suns — featuring star players like Steve Nash, Amar’e Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, and more.
But in the aftermath of the book’s publication, the real scoop for McCallum lay in the time he spent profiling the team’s close-knit coaching staff, including Mike D’Antoni (who was the 2005 Coach of the Year, and won that honour again with the Houston Rockets last month), Marc Iavaroni, Alvin Gentry, Dan D’Antoni, Todd Quinter, and the Long Island, New York native Phil Weber. Weber turned out to be one of the revelatory characters in the story, described by McCallum as a true “clinician”, and by other coaches as a relentlessly positive thinker.
After nearly two decades of NBA coaching experience, Weber will be spending the summer of 2017 trying out a new basketball challenge unlike anything he had ever done before. He has been hired as the head coach of India’s Men’s National Basketball Team and…
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