tyronn lue CLEVELAND, OH – JUNE 22: Head coach Tyronn Lue of the Cleveland Cavaliers speaks onstage during the Cleveland Cavaliers 2016 NBA Championship victory parade and rally on June 22, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)

Tyronn Lue’s career as an NBA head coach just celebrated its six-month anniversary. Here’s how it has gone:

January 22 – Cavs fire David Blatt, name Lue coach. Their record is 30-11.
April 13 – Regular season ends with the Cavs having gone 27-14 under Lue. They win the Eastern Conference easily.
May 27 – Cavs beat the Raptors in six games, win the Eastern Conference Championship. This outcome was never really in doubt.
June 19 – Lue hoists the O’Brien Trophy after the Cavs come back from down 3-1 to defeat the Warriors in the NBA Finals.
July 25 – The Cavs and Lue agree to a five-year, $35 million extension, according to The Vertical.

Wow this coaching stuff sure is easy!

Seriously, has anyone had an easier go of NBA coaching than Tyronn Lue? He takes over a first-place team with one of the five-best players of all-time plus another perennial All-Star. He gets his bearings during the regular season, saunters through the conference playoffs by trouncing a depleted conference and then watches LeBron James put on a historic show during the NBA Finals. And since you can’t can a title-winning coach, the Cavs inevitably offer him a lucrative extension.

Jokes aside, Lue seems like a promising coach, and obviously he deserves some credit for the Cavs’ title. But you’ve got to imagine someone like Sixers coach Brett Brown is sitting there with that 47-199 record and dreaming of the alternate reality where he got to coach LeBron, win a title and get paid $35 million.

The point is, it’s good to be Tyronn Lue.

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