NBA Coaches and Astrology
National Basketball Association (NBA) teams may want to consider astrology when seeking out coaches for their teams. A look at the coaches that have won the NBA Championships shows one category that stands out. In this case, coaches that are in the Mutable (End) Quality of Astrology have won the most championships.
One way that astrology groups signs together is by “Qualities”. Every third sign is the same quality. The Qualities are Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable. They are made up of the following signs:
- Cardinal
- Aries
- Cancer
- Libra
- Capricorn
- Fixed
- Taurus
- Leo
- Scorpio
- Aquarius
- Mutable
- Gemini
- Virgo
- Sagittarius
- Pisces
In this study, we looked at the winning coaches of the NBA Championship games between 1947 and 2019. The results are as follows:
- 15 Cardinal Signs
- 14 Fixed Signs
- 44 Mutable signs
That is a significant difference! Those number include multiple wins by the same coach. Phil Jackson alone added eleven wins to the Mutable category. Taking away the multiple wins makes the difference less drastic but the Mutables still win more. Those numbers are
- 7 Cardinal Signs
- 11 Fixed Signs
- 15 Mutable Signs
One would expect the Fixed signs to be better coaches. They tend to have good traits for management. However, those skills are more on the diplomatic front where persuasion is more important. They are good at managing managers. Basketball only has five players on the court at a time. One person could manage it relatively easily. A detailed person such as a Mutable sign could solely spot problems and come up with solutions. Persuasion skills are not as important because they are acting like a dictator and do not need to bother having the middleman of an assistant coach. Some notable Mutable signed coaches are
- Phil Jackson - Chicago Bulla and LA Lakers
- Red Auerbach - Boston Celtics
- Gregg Popovich - San Antonio Spurs
- Pat Riley - LA Lakers and Miami Heat
- Larry Brown - Detroit Pistons