Half of the coaches in the NBA are Black — The NFL doesn’t have an excuse anymore

The NBA has shown us that diversity summits are useless when you operate a league where the best person is hired.

When the Los Angeles Lakers hired Darvin Ham, it meant that half of the coaches in the NBA are black. Imagine that. A league where the bosses are similar to the workforce.

15.

Fifty-four!

The NBA, a league that is over 70 percent Black, has 15 Black coaches, while the NFL, a league that is over 70 percent Black, has 3 Black coaches. The head coach of the Miami Dolphins doesn't identify as Black.

At his introductory press conference, he declared that he identifies as a human and his father is black.

One of the frustrating things about racism is that the deniers of it always want proof that they are wrong. Sometimes it is. In the case of the lack of Black coaches in the NFL, the NBA has produced a stat that proves how racist the hiring practices are in the league.

Only 26 Black men have been hired to be head coaches in the NFL since 2000. They aren't given the same amount of time to turn things around as their white counterparts are, and most of the time they are brought in to clean up impossible messes. Black coaches rarely get a second chance at being the head man in the facility, so once they're out of the door, it's back to being a coordinators.

Have you ever seen the Black version of Jeff Fisher?

Nope. We are not allowed to go 8-8 every season and still be respected, beloved, and always in consideration when jobs become available.

The greatest achievement of Black coaching in the National Football League was in 2007, when the Bears and Colts met in the Super Bowl. Two Black coaches met in the biggest sporting event on the planet. Since 2000, there have only been five Black coaches in the Super Bowl, and the last one to make it was Mike Tomlin in 2011.

The new version of the XFL, which will start in 2023, already has more Black coaches than the NFL, with four of them being Rod Woodson, Reggie Barlow, and Hines Ward. They will be joined by other people.

In the NBA, black coaches have made the finals in the last two seasons. The final series of the playoffs have been for 11 Black coaches.

The other majority-Black league needs annual workshops and summits to collect resume, which is funny since one Black league can find Black talented coaches. The Brian Flores lawsuit should be settled sooner than later, because how do you explain to your clients that racism is a choice? An expensive one at that.