The Price Will Be Right For Some Team

True story- I was working at a sports themed restaurant near the Richfield Coliseum during the Cavs run in the ’90s. We had nearly the entire team come in at various points each year, but a few players came in quite often. Larry Nance was a near regular. Jay Guidinger was a frequent guest (and by the way one of the nicest basketball players ever). Mark Price was my favorite Cavalier (probably still is) and he came in one day along with GM Wayne Embry and their wives. The waitress serving them had no idea who any of them were, but was told that “the guy over there is Mark Price, one of the Cavaliers.” She proceeded to call Wayne Embry Mr. Price all afternoon. The group thought it was hilarious and let her believe that Embry was in fact Mark Price. That was the day I shook Mark’s hand and looked him right in the eye. Yes, I discovered I was in fact the exact same height as Mark Price.

That story has really nothing to do with the next, but it is my Mark Price story, so I thought I’d share it. With that said, it seems that Price has gotten the itch to coach. We know that he has been a shooting coach with both the Grizzlies and the Hawks, but apparently the NBA’s best free throw shooter would like to do more. Like head coach. 

Working as a shooting coach for the Hawks is a nice gig because Price lives in Atlanta and is able to spend quality time at home with his four kids. But he’s getting the itch to coach on a full-time basis. Blame DNA.

“I think with my dad being a coach, coaching has always been in the back of my mind,” Price said of his late father, Denny, a former college coach and NBA assistant. Mark has dabbled in high school and college coaching (he was an assistant at his alma mater, Georgia Tech). Now he wants to be a head coach. College? Pro? He’ll take things a step at a time and see what opportunities arise.

How would you feel about doing a little offensive coordinating for your former employer?

Truthfully we don’t know what kind of coach Price will be, but we can guess that he would put the work and dedication in it to be successful, just like he worked on his shot time and time again. I enjoyed the first Mark Price era in Cleveland. I’d love to see what he could do if given another opportunity. If nothing else, he might help a young Daniel Gibson become a more consistent shooter, and possibly mold him into a more mature PG.

It would also make this shirt more relevant.