Color us dense, but we noticed something recently on Pro Basketball Reference while researching The Fall of Flip that we found rather striking: Flip Saunders has a height and weight listing under his coaching profile. (5′11″, 175 lbs. for those of you counting at home.) We couldn’t believe it. This is important information about the coach? Is there a weigh-in day for coaches where George Karl strips to his boxers and wiggles onto the scale? (”Okay… minus the 12 oz of Schlitz in his hand, he’s 6′2″, 185 lbs.… George, put the other foot on the scale. Seriously.”)
We kept checking randomly. Only some coaches have measurements. Allan Bristow, Kevin Loughery, John Lucas, Bill Fitch – yes. Frank McGuire and Jim Boylan – no. Okay, we figured: it’s bleeding through from their player profiles when they were pros. Except, of course, Fitch and Saunders never played in the pros. So maybe college stats? But why track college stats of men that never played in the pros? We’re not sure.
