Just now! The first sacked coach of the season was born! Goodbye, Willie Green

Just now, the first team coach to be fired in the NBA 2025-26 season was officially born! NBA reporter Chris Haynes first reported that league sources revealed that the New Orleans Pelicans have officially fired team coach Willie Green, and team assistant James Borrego will serve as the Pelicans' interim head coach.

Subsequently, the New Orleans Pelicans officially announced that the team officially fired Willie Green and assistant coach Bo James Rego became the team's interim coach. At this point, it is announced that Willie Green's Pelicans coaching career is officially over!

It is reported that 44-year-old Willie Green will start coaching the Pelicans in 2021. His regular season coaching record is 150 wins and 190 losses, with a winning rate of 44.1%. Among them, in the 2023-24 season, he led the Pelicans to a record of 49 wins and 33 losses, which was the best record in a single season of his coaching career with the Pelicans. The playoff record is 2 wins and 8 losses, with a winning rate of only 20%. Both playoff trips ended in the first round of the first round.

So far this season, the New Orleans Pelicans have only achieved 2 wins and 10 losses, ranking last in the Western Conference. Obviously, the Pelicans' record last in the Western Conference became the most direct reason for Willie Green's dismissal. The deeper reason is that Pelicans owner Gale Benson wants to build a championship-level team, which indirectly led to the dismissal of Willie Green, who had a winning rate of less than 50% in his coaching career, because he is no longer in the team's future plans!

It is reported that the fact that Willie Green will be dismissed from get out of class has been widely reported as early as half a month ago. Now that the Pelicans have officially announced that Willy Green will be fired, this is also a relief for Willy Green himself, so at least he no longer has to live in fear every day!

Frankly speaking, although Willie Green's Pelicans career coaching winning rate is less than 50%, this really cannot be blamed on his incompetence. After all, the Orleans Pelicans' entire lineup has never been truly healthy in the past few years, and Willie Green is often too clever to make a meal out of nothing!

Speaking of injuries, we naturally have to mention Pelicans star Zion Williamson. Since entering the league, the 2019 No. 1 forward has often been injured or on his way out of injuries. He has never played many games in good health.

According to statistics, Zion Williamson has only played 219 games in his six-year NBA career. At the same time, he has not played in any playoffs so far, and his career attendance rate is far less than 50%. Therefore, when the star Zion is absent due to injury for a long time, it may be difficult for Willie Green to lead the team to win the game no matter how sophisticated his tactical arrangements are.

So, Willie Green's dismissal should also have a lot to do with Zion Williamson's health. What do you think about this?