After just four days together, Billy Donovan and the Orlando Magic are calling it quits.I can't say that I'm shocked, given Donovan's fantastic success at Florida and a noteworthy track record of college coaches floundering in the transition to the NBA.
What alarms me, and should scare the crap out of Billy Donovan, is that the Florida coach has followed in the footsteps of Britney Spears.
Didn't think she'd get a mention on this sports blog? Me neither.
Remember when Britney married a childhood friend in Las Vegas in 2004? Remember when she annulled it two days later?
Is any of this sounding familiar?
At the time, everyone thought Spears was out of her mind to marry her friend on a whim, and there seemed to a collective sigh of relief (coupled with a roll of the eyes) when she announced the annulment.
But after a disastrous marriage to Kevin Federline -- and at this point, a disastrous life in general -- who can say that it wouldn't have been a good choice to have stuck with that first (albeit impetuous) marriage?
If you're sensing some tongue-in-cheekiness here, you're very astute. But in all seriousness, I think Billy Donovan might have fared just fine in Orlando. With the tools he has to work with (Dwight Howard, Jameer Nelson, and possibly a big offseason free agent signing), Donovan might have even taken the Magic to the Finals.
Donovan is convinced that he made a mistake in agreeing to coach Orlando in the first place, and he may very well be right. But like Britney, Donovan may have walked away from a positively life-changing opportunity.
In both cases, we'll never know.
1 comment:
It's a cute comparative of these two, but Brittny know the man she married, Billy only watched the Magic from afar, like the pretty girl who sits at the far corner of the room in eighth grade. She looks good from the outside, but maybe when you meet her she's not quite as cute, and perhaps obnoxious. Billy took a peek and realized that he was leaving behind too much.
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