In the baseball game I play (not What If) I run a very successful league called The Managers League. You pick a manager and you can use any player who played for that manager in either the major leagues or the minor leagues. You must use a ballpark that he managed in as his home park and you must include at least 3 players from each major league franchise that he managed, not counting the outlaw leagues like the Union Asc., The Player's League and the Federal League. They are 12 team leagues and this leagues fills up every season in just a couple of days.

How about a Coaches League here. You pick a head coach and you can only use players who played for him in that season. You pick an arena he coached in, and you must pick at least one player for each franchise that he coached. Players can be on more than one team if they qualify for that coach. This is only for head coaches. Assistant coaches do not count at all.

Salary Cap - $52M
No clones, no waivers, no rookies, no trades
Auto draft
NO DUPLICATE COACHES IN THE LEAGUE! Once a coach is taken no other team can have him for that season.

I'm gonna go with Larry Brown even though he coached for 10 franchises and all 10 must be represented.

JOIN THE FUN!

LEAGUE NUMBER IS NBA75672

Are we talking only seasons when they were a head coach? Or do assistant coach seasons count also?

In-Doc Rivers

Posted by chewy3344 on 1/1/2026 12:44:00 PM (view original):
Are we talking only seasons when they were a head coach? Or do assistant coach seasons count also?

No, just head coaches.

Posted by jclinton on 1/1/2026 2:15:00 PM (view original):
In-Doc Rivers

Doc has coached Orlando, Boston, Clippers, Philly and Milwaukee, but was at each place for at least 3 years so there should be no problem having at least one player from each of his stops. With Larry Brown I have to find one player from his disastrous one season with the Knicks :-(

Phil Jackson

Mike Budenholzer please

I've got my Larry Brown team done.

https://www.whatifsports.com/nba-l/stats.asp?teamid=645445

Come on guys. There's a lotta great coaches left who coached a bunch of great players. Pat Riley gives you a bunch of great choices.

Erik Spoelstra, please

will repick.

Posted by poppapomp on 1/3/2026 9:06:00 AM (view original):
will repick.

You don't want Jason Kidd now?

Posted by savoybg on 1/3/2026 9:20:00 AM (view original):

Posted by poppapomp on 1/3/2026 9:06:00 AM (view original):
will repick.

You don't want Jason Kidd now?

Switched to Bill Russell.

Come on gentlemen!

This is the best new idea for a theme league in a long time.

Not sure how this will ever get filled but if it does

Tyronn Lue