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Coaching hot seat: Who's next to go?

Updated: December 8, 2008, 2:03 PM ET
By Chris Sheridan | ESPN.com

Randy Wittman is out the door in Minnesota -- which means it took only six weeks for 13.3 percent of the NBA's head coaching positions to turn over.

The NBA has shown itself to be a league of a few elite teams and an exponentially larger number of sad-sack, empty-seat outfits, many of whom are now invoking that time-honored exercise of pointing the finger of blame at the head coach.

P.J. Carlesimo lasted just 13 games in Oklahoma City, Eddie Jordan was axed two days later ...

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