Yeah, I never did get that either, that Fin wouldn't have accepted a lesser role. Why not? He's doing it now, that's for sure.
My take has always been that Johnson needed to clear Finley out of the locker room in order to put his own stamp on the team. Johnson wasn't anywhere near experienced enough as a coach to be able to handle that kind of situation otherwise. In fact, Johnson may not have been able to pull off what he did if Dirk didn't have such a deferent personality.
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