Say what you will about pop and whether he was just a product of Tim, but he instilled the culture that permeates the franchise. They were a bush league mom and pop (no pun) store before he was put in charge. For God's sake, Bob Bass literally used to fix the toilets in the Hemisfair Arena. Now the league is peppered with his minions on the bench and in front offices that have tried to emulate what he's built. You can't deny his accomplishments.
And as far as I'm concerned he's earned the right to go out in his own terms and let's face it, nobody in the organization has the gravitas to shit can him any way. Barring finding out that he's been covering up for Bret Brown molesting the ballboys in the locker room, he ain't going nowhere until he wants to.
That said, he's operating with complete autonomy and he has entered into naked emperor territory. At some point we need to question if he's getting too old for the job and if his judgment is sound. I thought it was really fucked up when he started dating Bud's ex wife. His politics don't bother me as much as it does that he doesn't expound as thoughtfully about his basketball team as he does on the events of the day. But still, he don't give a fuck. He's clearly going to do whatever he wants and there's really nobody who's going to tell him anything any more. Winning is the great deodorant and literally no coach has done more winning than him but come the fuck on. If anyone is immune from this kind of shit it's him but holy shit last night he was as embarrassing as the on the court product has been.
I'm not quite ready for him to go but it wouldn't upset me nearly as much as it used to.