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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angel Tarragon" data-source="post: 2239754" data-attributes="member: 23733">The league has announced that it will name the results of NBA Coach of the Year balloting today and Phoenix Suns coach D'Antoni is a likely candidate. D'Antoni guided the Suns to the NBA's best record. The Suns won a league-best 62 games this season, improving 33 wins over last season and sparked by NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash, a Canadian guard that the newspaper accurately announced early as the award winner. D'Antoni used a fast-paced attack as the Suns completed the third-best improvement in NBA history. He took over in December of 2003 after Frank Johnson was fired and the Suns finished that season 20-41 under D'Antoni. D'Antoni was a coach and player in Italy for 20 years and came to the NBA in 1999, going 14-36 with Denver during a season shortened by a labour dispute. He was fired after the season and spent the next year as a San Antonio Spurs scout. After serving as an assistant for the Portland Trail Blazers for a season, D'Antonio returned to Italy and rejoined the Suns a year later as an assistant coach. D'Antoni will join Cotton Fitzsimmons, the 1989 NBA Coach of the Year, as the only Suns mentors to capture the honour.</blockquote>