But he did, he coached the Lightning last season.

If you read the article you'd know it discusses the lightning and is a recent interview smh

"The fact that I haven't had one phone call from anyone involved from the WNBL or the Lightning since the season to even say thanks for stepping in but telling me they were going in a different direction, I find that highly disrespectful.

100% feel for Scott.
Respect that he has kept his head high through it all.

Horrible puff piece.

Yep, weak sauce even the Lightning have moved on from him too. Making Wells HC has led to Cotton & Cheatham coming to the Sixers and likely played a part in Trez re-signing too.

Firing Ninnis was arguably the greatest decision in club history.

Kind of dug his own grave with his head coach or nothing else demand from memory. People may point to how the team improved under him, but CJ was terrible and most players respond well to a change. And it wasn't like it led to a massive win streak.
His previous stint showed he wasn't an NBL quality head coach, he just should have interviewed for the job and then taken the assistant coaching role for Wells, which would have been good for both parties. Instead, as usual, the Sixers made a complete mess of the situation and resulted in yet another bad PR move and left Wells without anyone knowing the league.
And it's not like Scotty has been around the league to improve his resume as well as actually learning.
Not sure what he wanted from the lightning, a billboard on South road thanking him, just wanting a lot of sympathy.
Poor form from Sixers in sacking him at the time but he's done a bit of backstabbing himself. Plus his sucking up to GK by demoting Sunday, Cadee and MM to give minutes to Marshall etc shows he was a brown noser.

Ninnis doesn't seem to understand that he's a caretaker.

He wasn't after he signed a 2 year deal to coach them though

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's a duck.

tbf, I suspect a 36ers coach hasn't felt comfortable about job security for many years

Probably not since Joey Wright re-signed to his 5 year deal in 2017.

2017 - Joey Wright re-signs to 5 year deal, fired in 2020.

2020 - Conner Henry signs 3 year deal, fired in 2021.

2021 - CJ Bruton signs 3 year deal, fired during 2023/24 season, Ninnis takes over as interim coach.

2024 - Scott Ninnis re-signs to 2 year deal, fired during training camp.

2024 - Mike Wells who had signed 3 year deal as AC, elevated to HC.

It's more about how they fired CH and Scotty, making someone return to Australia and quarantine, then 100% hire Wells to become the head coach.
Henry didn't want to become a puppet and do what management wanted, then they had to scramble and hire CJ who was really clueless.
Then after obeying the powers that be and being a good boy, Scotty gets the job, reportably to influence DJ and IH to return. Or let DJ think he was the franchise and shoot every time he touched it and Scotty promising to come to all of Humphries fringe shows. Then having no say in his assistant coaches and becoming a lame duck once Wells came on board.
Normally it would take a player revolt, ironically what Wells faced later, or standing up to management, which Scotty wouldn't do.
Now the pressure will really be on Wells given all the expensive toys to play with, while Scotty sooks about a team that folded not sending him flowers. And Henry seemingly satisfied coaching a high school team.

Not sure Ninnis gets to cry poor me when it comes to the WNBL (can't comment on the 36ers) situation. The word out of the camp there was that he didn’t bother to learn any of their stuff and had the assistant do all the work (long term assistant at the club called Michael or Matt?).

That, and he didn’t seem too stressed about rolling in to games watching that team play the weekend Hurst was fired knowing the rug was getting pulled out. Equally as gross process, but it served him so that was fine in his mind.

Don’t know the guy, but coming out throwing shade now, seems like someone is sad they are irrelevant?

Maybe that sadness is also because the 36ers appear to be in a good place too?

Regardless of anything, thanking someone for being a caretaker coach really is the bare minimum. I'm not sure why anyone on here is disputing that. Relationships 101. As for being salty for being fired from the 36ers, the track record for how they treat coaches at the club has been a dumpster fire for many seasons now. Their relationship management and PR skills seem to be incredibly subpar, irrespective of whether the coach is a magician or not.

A thanks from who? Even before the season was over it was common knowledge that Pelligra was out. Admin staff were all released. Licence handed back to the League.

Who does he want a thank you from? There effectively was no Lightning as soon as the last game was over. There was no organisation left to thank him. Robyn & LK were new owners, had nothing to do with Scott and his time at the previous version of the Lightning, wasn't their place to say anything.

Sounds like its all about Scott. No concept of what was happening in the world around him. Lazy, laidback, no X and Os skills, just a "good guy" with some good people skills with a selection of the basketball community.

The more he says the less anyone feels for him.

"The more he says the less anyone feels for him."

I agree and think Ninnis would've been best served keeping his head down. It was an ordinary look him appearing at Lightning games right before Hurst got sacked. I don't want to hear any more sob story "Look what they did to me!" stuff from him again.

Ninnis always felt like he was never going to be a long-term coach, that's even before Matt Weston came aboard. You listen to that recent interview Wells and Weston did and they talk about both developing under the "Brett Brown tree". The best case scenario for Ninnis was he got to see out his 2 years while Wells learnt the league, but Weston always had Wells as his guy as soon as he started.

Ninnin's run at the end of 2024 probably showed just how bad CJ was as a coach. Ninnis didn't do anything revolutionary, he just fed Isaac in the post and put the ball in the hands of TK3 a lot more. I was fine getting his 2 years to rebuild the club a little bit, but i'm not sure how he'd of handled the 36ers team with KD, Trez and all the head butting that seemed to go on.

You listen to that recent interview Wells and Weston did and they talk about both developing under the "Brett Brown tree".