They’ve been better. At the start of the 2012 season, 14 head coaches were black, the highest mark in NBA history. The opportunities have been cut, for various reasons, but those arguments can be applied to other coaches who’ve managed to keep their jobs through tumultuous situations. “You always want more, better opportunities,” Casey, the head coach of the Detroit Pistons, told Yahoo Sports. “I don’t think anybody in the NBA can say African-Americans don’t have the opportunity to get the job done. Whether you get longer leashes as other coaches, that’s another story. But the opportunity is all you can ask for.”