A step in the right direction
Harkening back to the story on Paul Westhead, who's got his foot in the door to be the first coach to win an NBA and WNBA title in his career, here's the backstory to foot faux pas that surfaced before his Phoenix Mercury team evened up its best-of-five series against the Detroit Shock in the second game of the WNBA Finals on Saturday.
According to the East Valley Tribune story, Westhead was giving his team a pregame talk when Cappie Pondexter said, "Coach, what’s up with your shoes?”
Westhead said he owns two pair of black shoes, but only brought one pair to Detroit. He accidently took one shoe from each pair -- a gator leather shoe on one foot and a buckle penny loafer on the other. Both were black. But they weren't that much of a match.
“My wife is here and she didn’t know,” Westhead said.
While the rest of the team kept quiet through the first four days, Pondexter was the only player who didn’t know, but the first to point it out.
“You know coach is a little old, we got to get him in style,” Diana Taurasi joked. “He needs some fashion tips. We’ll hook him up, though. We’ll get him ready for next year.”
Here's a version of the story from the Arizona Republic.