Sometimes, when your co-worker becomes your boss, the situation just isn’t the same. The relationship you had with your co-worker is forever changed for the worse. This is not exactly uncommon in most workplaces, and the NBA is no exception, particularly when that co-worker is also a rival player.
In fact, when former Boston Celtics player and general manager Danny Ainge left the game as a player to pick up a clipboard and coach, he ended up as the head coach of a former rival, Robert Horry. The relationship was likely doomed. The player still harbored that hatred for having been dispatched by Ainge’s Suns when he was a Houston Rocket. The result is one epic tale.
To hear it for yourself, check out the clip embedded below put together by the folks at the Secret Base YouTube channel.
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