Billy Donovan qualifies as the luckiest, unluckiest rookie coach in the NBA. He also, by the way, has to save a franchise.
Donovan is the former University of Florida coach who led his team to consecutive NCAA titles and then in the spring of 2007 immediately afterward accepted a five-year $27.5 million contract to coach the Orlando Magic.
About a day later after a celebratory news conference with the Magic where staff gave him a standing ovation, Donovan changed his mind and asked to be released from his already signed contract to return to the Florida.
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