Sebastian Pruiti
Bill Belihick started his career cutting up tape for the Baltimore Colts for $25 dollars a week. You know who else is an expert at cutting up professional sports video and used to do it for FREE?! That’s right; none other than former Nets are Scorching founder/superstar and current Thunder secret weapon, Sebastian Pruiti. The “de facto NBA video-breakdown guy” lives and breathes basketball. He’s done everything from his work as editor emeritus at NAS to his founding of NBAPlaybook.com and probably his most visible gig as contributor for Bill Simmons’ Grantland website. His basketball jones even led him to Fort Wayne Indiana for a volunteer assistant/video coordinator position with the D-League’s Mad Ants.
If someone can go from an NBA blogger to a full-time paid analyst for an NBA front office through sheer talent and hard work, why can’t he go one step further onto the sideline? And if you think hiring Sebastian would be crazy, just remember that Isaiah Thomas was an NBA head coach, even AFTER destroying the Knicks as President of Basketball Operations and costing Madison Square Garden $11.5 million in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
-William Rausch
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