1.   George Karl deserves the NBA All-Star coaching gig that his West-best Sonics have given him.

2.   It is a tricky circumstance, this Dream Team coaching gig.

3.   It offered some hints that Drexler might be more serious about this coaching gig than most experts and fans around the country believed he would be.

4.   One-time millionaire ballplayers, their riches spent on God-knows-what excesses, trolling the bushes for minimum-wage coaching gigs.

5.   This head coaching gig can do that.