A slow-spinning coaching marketplace

With only a few openings so far and two teams moving deliberately in their searches, it has been a quieter spring than usual on the NBA coaching front

There are only three teams in today's NBA without a head coach.

The Sacramento Kings have moved quickly to zero in on Mark Jackson, Mike Brown and Steve Clifford as the three finalists to replace Alvin Gentry, but the Los Angeles Lakers and Charlotte Hornets appear to be in no hurry to fill their vacancies.

Meanwhile ...

The coach whose future has been dis…