Top 6 NBA Head Coaches In 2013-14

We ranked the NBA?s top point guards, shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards and centers earlier this week. Now, it is time to determine the best head coaches in the league.

Like the players, everyone is sure to believe their own coach deserves recognition. The reality is, while there?s no question that each NBA coach understands the game at an extremely high level, there is a significant difference in the way each of them goes about instilling said knowledge into the players. Managing talent, attitude and the tone of the room is also something that clearly goes into working with today?s NBA players.

There are some who refuse to place much emphasis on just how important and significant a head coach can be to a team?s overall success, or lack thereof. Put simply, there?s a reason, well beyond fortune or simple ?dumb luck,? why men like Phil Jackson and Red Auerbach were able to succeed at such an unparalleled pace. Yes, it helps to have supreme talent at your disposal, but that is far from the end-all, be-all. Certain coaches are able to extract absolutely every ounce of talent from a player through X?s and O?s, while others are able to press the right button(s) to motivate talent to come together.

It should be noted that coaches like George Karl and Lionel Hollins are currently out of work, otherwise, they may very well have made the list. It also should be noted that we fully expect up-and-coming guys like Monty Williams (New Orleans Pelicans) to make this list in the near future as he continues to experience success with his young, talented Pelicans squad. Intending absolutely no offense to those that are left off, here are our top coaches in the NBA:

Top 6

#6 ? Frank Vogel, Indiana Pacers

2012-13 Record ? 49-32

Much like his upstart group of players, Frank Vogel flew almost entirely under the radar last season. The longtime assistant for the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers and Indiana Pacers has improved in each of his three seasons as a head coach. Taking over midway through the 2010-11 season, Vogel has been at the helm of a total resurgence in Pacers basketball. With an improved roster, the Pacers are just at the precipice of success and poised to make a run. They may be the team with the best shot at dethroning the back-to-back NBA Champion Miami HEAT and representing the Eastern Conference in the 2014 Finals.

#5 ? Rick Carlisle, Dallas Mavericks

2012-13 Record ? 41-41

Even though his Dallas Mavericks failed to qualify for the postseason following an injury-riddled 2012, the former Coach of the Year still deserves some recognition. Several coaches were fortunate enough to have Dirk Nowitzki over the course of his career, but it was Carlisle who found a way win a championship with the 15-year power forward. Following their 2011 NBA title, the Mavericks have experienced their fair share of roster turnover. One thing about Carlisle?s teams, even when shorthanded, they are always competitive and the offense is generally above-average.

#4 ? Erik Spoelstra, Miami Heat

2012-13 Record ? 66-16

?With LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh ANYONE can?? Stop me if you?ve heard this nonsensical, but common narrative during a discussion about Erik Spoelstra in the past. The reality is, while it is certainly easier to win with talent, there are absolutely no guarantees of ultimate success simply based upon names on paper. Phil Jackson dealt with similar criticisms having enjoyed the likes of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O?Neal. While James and the players will reap the lion?s share of the credit (as they deserve), Spoelstra has also done a masterful job managing major talent and massive egos to the tune of three-consecutive runs to the Finals with the last two being successful. A job, those that have been there before, will tell you is much more difficult than it appears.

#3 ? Doc Rivers, Los Angeles Clippers

2012-13 Record ? 41-40 (Boston Celtics)

Doc Rivers went from coast to coast as he leaves the rebuilding Boston Celtics for ironically ?greener? pastures with the Los Angeles Clippers. Rivers has proven he has the ability to motivate players to embrace a team-first mentality. Expect Rivers to bring his brand of misdirection offense full of off-ball screens, backdoor cuts and likely a bit of pick-and-roll to a team oft-criticized for being too predictable and even mundane on that side of the ball in recent years. Clippers fans can only hope Rivers is able to inspire the type of gritty defensive intensity and interior toughness that became his calling-card during his time with the Celtics.

#2 ? Tom Thibodeau, Chicago Bulls

2012-13 Record ? 45-37

If defensive intensity and toughness are being discussed, then Tom Thiboeau?s name, not coincidentally, should be toward the top of the list. In just three years as a head coach, Thibodeau has already amassed 230 regular season victories, at a .683 winning percentage. Impressive, in its own right, but even more significant when you take into consideration the fact that Derrick Rose has missed a combined 109 regular season games over the past two seasons. Regardless of the stakes and circumstances, Thibodeau demands the type of hard-nosed and intense basketball that truly makes the Bulls seem in contention at all times. With a healthy and returning Rose, Thibodeau finally has his floor general back, and the Bulls should once again be considered contenders.

#1 ? Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs

2012-13 Record ? 58-24

The two-time NBA Coach of the Year may have come up short in the most recent Finals, but is second-to-none in terms of this list. Whether you question his in-game interviews or his decisions to rest his players throughout the regular season, the one thing you cannot question is just how much success Gregg Popovich has enjoyed with the San Antonio Spurs. In fact, outside of his first year as head coach (1996-97) where the injury-plagued team only managed to go 17-47, Popovich has never dipped beneath a .610 (50-32) winning percentage in a single season. With four titles in five runs to the Finals over a 16-year career, Popovich?s resume speaks for itself, even if he refuses to.

Honorable Mention:

Mark Jackson, Golden State Warriors

2012-13 Record ? 47-35

When the Golden State Warriors decided to hire a first-time head coach in Mark Jackson, it was met with plenty of raised eye brows and questions about the direction the franchise was headed. When the Warriors went just 23-43 in his first season, let?s just say, it did very little to silence any of his doubters. After a 47-35 season and just the franchise?s second playoff series win in over the last 22 years, the narrative has now shifted to just how good can Jackson?s Warriors be? With the recent addition of free agent Andre Iguodala to go along with an incredibly talented young core led by Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, needless to say, the expectations for Jackson have skyrocketed by comparison to where they once were.

Mike Woodson, New York Knicks

2012-13 Record ? 54-28

Over the first four years of Mike Woodson?s head coaching career, he compiled a 106-222 win-loss total with the Atlanta Hawks. Over the last four years, two with the Hawks and two with the New York Knicks, Woodson?s teams are 172-98. Woodson was also able to guide the Knicks to the second round of the 2013 playoffs, a feat that escaped the seven coaches prior to his hiring. Those seven coaches, by the way, include the likes of Mike D?Antoni, Isiah Thomas, Larry Brown and Lenny Wilkens.

Rick Adelman, Minnesota Timberwolves

2012-13 Record ? 31-51

A classic case of not judging a book by its cover. It?s very easy to question Adelman?s name being listed amongst the NBA?s best coaches with a .378 winning percentage at first glance, but if you?ve followed his career, then you know Adelman has experienced above-average success when he?s had the horses to run with. His ?Corner? offense, or strong remnants of it, can be seen throughout the league. Ideal for teams with shooters and big men that can pass, opposing teams have been utilizing Adelman?s offensive schemes for years. Adelman has also done an incredible job getting everything out of some injury-depleted rosters. It would certainly be nice to see what a healthy Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio could do within his system for a full season.

Source: http://www.hoopsworld.com/top-6-nba-head-coaches-in-2013-14?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-6-nba-head-coaches-in-2013-14

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Rubio tries to muster conservative support for immigration bill

By Rachelle Younglai

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday sought his fellow conservatives' support for a sweeping immigration bill by arguing that doing nothing is tantamount to "amnesty" for the 11 million people who are living in the United States illegally.

Trying to turn the tables on Republican opponents of the overhaul who say it would grant amnesty to law-breakers, Rubio said deportation of all the 11 million, which some conservatives favor, would never happen.

"We all wish we didn't have this problem, but we do and we have to fix it. Because leaving things the way they are, that's the real amnesty," Rubio said at a news conference.

Rubio spoke the day before the Senate Judiciary Committee starts to examine the immigration bill crafted by Rubio and seven other Republican and Democratic senators.

Rubio, a popular conservative already considered a contender for the 2016 presidential nomination, had been pushing for immigration reform even before the eight senators unveiled their legislation this week.

The Florida senator has been stressing the economic benefits of immigration reform and has been careful not to say the bill creates a special path to citizenship - a non-starter for many conservatives.

The bill requires tougher security at the southern border with Mexico before illegal immigrants are given a chance to apply for citizenship. It also establishes a new program to bring in unskilled foreign laborers and increases the number of work visas for high- and low-skilled workers.

Rubio also took his appeal for the bill to influential conservative Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show on Thursday.

Some Republican lawmakers "have stated pretty strong opposition" to the path to citizenship, Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, who is part of the bipartisan Senate group, told reporters after the news conference.

Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who has been a vocal opponent of the plan, warned on Thursday that the bill would hurt U.S. workers and increase federal deficits as millions of undocumented residents eventually gain citizenship and become eligible for government benefits.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is to start working intensively on the bill in May with a goal of making changes before June.

The measure has a chance of passing the Senate, where Democrats control 55 of the 100 seats. However, its prospects are far less rosy in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, where members of Rubio's party have started to coalesce around the idea of granting the illegal immigrants legal status but not citizenship.

(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan and Sam Youngman; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rubio-tries-muster-conservative-support-immigration-bill-233902575.html

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OS X Code Reveals Apple's Plans For Super-Fast Wi-Fi

With the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta release currently in the hands of developers, some of the more eagle-eyed nerds have noticed references to code which appear to confirm rumors about Apple's plans to roll out super-fast Wi-Fi to its Macs. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/X7SiYj6DC7I/os-x-code-reveals-apples-plans-for-super+fast-wi+fi

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With Firepad, Firebase Adds Real-Time Text Collaboration To Its App Platform

Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module ? Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others. To a consumer, that might not sound very exciting. After all, we've already got Google Docs. However, co-founder and CEO James Tamplin said that those kinds of capabilities are limited to big companies with "a ton of Google-quality engineers." With Firepad, however, developers can add text editing and document collaboration to their own apps without too much extra work.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MB3RUlQWNR0/

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Britney Explains Annette Funicello Comment

Britney Spears was set up, y'all. The "Scream and Shout" singer was recently approached by a TMZ cameraman, who asked how she felt about the passing of Annette Funicello. Since Annette was a cast member on the original '50s Mickey Mouse Club, and Britney was part of the '90s revival, the gossip site was probably expecting to get a personal reaction. Instead, after the cameraman shouted his question, Spears smiled and said, "I think that's great!" Of course, the headline on TMZ's "exclusive" became "Britney Spears: Annette Funicello's Passing 'Is Great.'"

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/britney-spears-explains-annette-funicello-comment/1-a-532722?dst=iv%3AiVillage%3Abritney-spears-explains-annette-funicello-comment-532722

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Acclaimed documentary maker Les Blank dies at 77

This image provided by Harrod Blank shows an undated image of his father Les Blank. Blank, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating artists, died Sunday April 7, 2013 at age 77, his son said. Blank died at his home in Berkeley, Calif. nearly a year after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, Harrod Blank said. (AP Photo/Harrod Blank)

This image provided by Harrod Blank shows an undated image of his father Les Blank. Blank, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating artists, died Sunday April 7, 2013 at age 77, his son said. Blank died at his home in Berkeley, Calif. nearly a year after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, Harrod Blank said. (AP Photo/Harrod Blank)

This image provided by Harrod Blank shows an undated image of his father Les Blank. Blank, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating artists, died Sunday April 7, 2013 at age 77, his son said. Blank died at his home in Berkeley, Calif. nearly a year after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, Harrod Blank said. (AP Photo/Harrod Blank)

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) ? Les Blank, an acclaimed documentary maker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating artists, died Sunday at age 77, his son said.

Blank died at his home in Berkeley, Calif. nearly a year after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, Harrod Blank said.

Blank's 42 films earned him a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.

"I think he's a national treasure," filmmaker Taylor Hackford, president of the Directors Guild of America, told the New York Times. "Although his films are not well known at the moment, they'll take their place"

The Florida-born Blank's early documentaries focused on musicians, including 1965's "Dizzy Gillespie" and "The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins," a portrait of the Texas bluesman that won Blank his first wide renown.

He shifted to food with documentaries like 1980's "Garlic is as Good as 10 Mothers," and 2007's "All in This Tea."

Blank was known for following his curiosity anywhere. No topic was too strange ? or too ordinary. His 1987 film "Gap-Toothed Women" was a series of interviews on the subject spurred by an old high school crush.

"If he was interested in gap-toothed women, he's going to make a film about it. If he wants to make a film about garlic because he loves to eat garlic, he's going to do it," said Harrod Blank, who is also a filmmaker.

But the subject that led to Blank's most memorable work was fellow filmmaker Werner Herzog.

In 1979's "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe," Blank chronicled Herzog's attempt to dine on his boot, the result of a lost bet.

And "Burden of Dreams," Blank's 1982 behind-the-scenes view of Herzog's disastrous filming of "Fitzcarraldo" in the Peruvian jungle, became a classic chronicle of artistic obsession.

"If I abandon this project, I would be a man without dreams," Blank films Herzog saying in the film. "I don't want to live like that,"

Associated Press

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Link between obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome may be exaggerated

Public release date: 8-Apr-2013
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Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@gru.edu
706-721-4421
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University

AUGUSTA, Ga. The relationship between obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome may be exaggerated, likely because the women who actively seek care for the condition tend to be heavier than those identified through screening of the general population, researchers report.

PCOS affects about 10 percent of women and is characterized by excess male hormone, irregular ovulation and menstruation as well as increased risk of metabolic diseases often associated with being overweight.

The study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism looked at what have long been considered indicators of the disease, including obesity, high testosterone levels and excess body hair, in women actively seeking care for PCOS as well as those identified with PCOS through a general pre-employment health screening.

They found that the women with PCOS identified through the screening had about the same obesity rates as those who didn't have PCOS, said Dr. Ricardo Azziz, reproductive endocrinologist and PCOS expert at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University. However, obesity rates in patients actively seeking treatment were about 2.5 times higher than in women identified with PCOS through the screening of the general population.

"The women actively seeking care had higher male hormones, more hair growth, more severe ovulation problems, which was not surprising because patients who have a more severe condition are more apt to seek medical care," said Azziz, the study's corresponding author. "What is surprising to us is that the rate of obesity in women with PCOS who we found in the general population is nowhere near as high as we expected from studying women with PCOS who did seek care."

"This finding indicates that while obesity is a major problem for everyone who has it, we should treat obesity as obesity and probably not try to link obesity as a sign of PCOS," Azziz said. He notes that obesity has been considered a hallmark of the condition since it was first described in 1932 and that the ongoing association likely is perpetuated by a bias resulting from patients who self-refer for care.

A more accurate picture of PCOS likely would emerge if studies of the condition also included patients identified through screening the general population, Azziz said. "A lot of patients believe PCOS leads to obesity and we really don't have strong data to support that. In fact, our evidence suggests that is not the case."

"We do know that the more fat you have, the more metabolic dysfunction you have, regardless of whether you have PCOS," Azziz said. Growing evidence also suggests that regardless of how much they have the fat in women with PCOS behaves differently.

Fat, a huge organ even in thin individuals and a literal hormone factory, is a major site where the body uses insulin to convert glucose consumed in food to energy. Azziz and his colleagues reported in another recent study in the journal Diabetes differences in the fat of women with PCOS, showing that several tiny RNA molecules, called microRNA, were overexpressed in the fat of those who also were insulin-resistant, resulting in decreased expression of GLUT4, a key protein that regulates fat's use of glucose for energy.

The new studies were done on 64 women being treated for PCOS and 688 women seeking pre-employment physicals at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Uche Ezeh, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Androgen-Related Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, is the study's first author. Dr. Bulent O. Yidiz, Department of Internal Medicine and the Endocrinology and Metabolism Unit, Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Turkey, is co-author.

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The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Helping Hand of Los Angeles, Inc.

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Public release date: 8-Apr-2013
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Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@gru.edu
706-721-4421
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University

AUGUSTA, Ga. The relationship between obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome may be exaggerated, likely because the women who actively seek care for the condition tend to be heavier than those identified through screening of the general population, researchers report.

PCOS affects about 10 percent of women and is characterized by excess male hormone, irregular ovulation and menstruation as well as increased risk of metabolic diseases often associated with being overweight.

The study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism looked at what have long been considered indicators of the disease, including obesity, high testosterone levels and excess body hair, in women actively seeking care for PCOS as well as those identified with PCOS through a general pre-employment health screening.

They found that the women with PCOS identified through the screening had about the same obesity rates as those who didn't have PCOS, said Dr. Ricardo Azziz, reproductive endocrinologist and PCOS expert at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University. However, obesity rates in patients actively seeking treatment were about 2.5 times higher than in women identified with PCOS through the screening of the general population.

"The women actively seeking care had higher male hormones, more hair growth, more severe ovulation problems, which was not surprising because patients who have a more severe condition are more apt to seek medical care," said Azziz, the study's corresponding author. "What is surprising to us is that the rate of obesity in women with PCOS who we found in the general population is nowhere near as high as we expected from studying women with PCOS who did seek care."

"This finding indicates that while obesity is a major problem for everyone who has it, we should treat obesity as obesity and probably not try to link obesity as a sign of PCOS," Azziz said. He notes that obesity has been considered a hallmark of the condition since it was first described in 1932 and that the ongoing association likely is perpetuated by a bias resulting from patients who self-refer for care.

A more accurate picture of PCOS likely would emerge if studies of the condition also included patients identified through screening the general population, Azziz said. "A lot of patients believe PCOS leads to obesity and we really don't have strong data to support that. In fact, our evidence suggests that is not the case."

"We do know that the more fat you have, the more metabolic dysfunction you have, regardless of whether you have PCOS," Azziz said. Growing evidence also suggests that regardless of how much they have the fat in women with PCOS behaves differently.

Fat, a huge organ even in thin individuals and a literal hormone factory, is a major site where the body uses insulin to convert glucose consumed in food to energy. Azziz and his colleagues reported in another recent study in the journal Diabetes differences in the fat of women with PCOS, showing that several tiny RNA molecules, called microRNA, were overexpressed in the fat of those who also were insulin-resistant, resulting in decreased expression of GLUT4, a key protein that regulates fat's use of glucose for energy.

The new studies were done on 64 women being treated for PCOS and 688 women seeking pre-employment physicals at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Uche Ezeh, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Androgen-Related Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, is the study's first author. Dr. Bulent O. Yidiz, Department of Internal Medicine and the Endocrinology and Metabolism Unit, Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Turkey, is co-author.

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The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Helping Hand of Los Angeles, Inc.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/mcog-lbo040813.php

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