Scott Skiles Fires As Coach Of The Milwaukee Bucks

Hmmm, kind of strange because eof the timing.
From jsonline: A league source confirmed late Monday that Scott Skiles is out as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks after four-plus seasons.
The source said it was mutually agreed between the two parties that Skiles would no longer coach the Bucks, effective immediately.
Jim Boylan will take over as interim coach of the team beginning with Tuesday's home game against Phoenix, the source indicated.
Skiles was in the final year of his contract with the team. He originally signed a four-year deal in April 2008 and had his contract extended one year following the 2009-'10 season.
The final game in Skiles' term with the Bucks came on Saturday night as Milwaukee lost at Indiana, 95-80. The Bucks dropped four straight games last week to fall to the .500 mark, after they had improved to a 16-12 record with a 104-85 home victory over Miami on Dec. 29.
Skiles compiled a 162-182 record in his time with the Bucks and led the team to one playoff appearance in four seasons. The only time the team had a winning record was in 2009-'10 when it went 46-36 and advanced to the Eastern Conference playoffs.
The Bucks lost in seven games to Atlanta in the first round of the playoffs that year.
But Milwaukee fell to 35-47 the next year during an injury-plagued season and was 31-35 during the lockout-shortened season a year ago.
Skiles experimented with several lineups this year and the Bucks won six of their first eight games. They are 14-8 against Eastern Conference foes but just 2-8 against the Western Conference thus far.
This will be the second time Boylan has succeeded Skiles as coach of an NBA team. Boylan finished the final 56 games of the 2007-’08 season as interim coach of the Chicago Bulls after serving as Skiles’ lead assistant.
Boylan also has been Skiles’ lead assistant with the Bucks for the last-four plus seasons.  http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/185970581.html
It's kind of surprising that the human cadaver, Buck owner, Herb Kohl greed to this firing.  But now that he is retired from the U.S. Senate, he has nothing to do, so he decided to intervene in something he really knows nothing about- basketball.
Funny- Skiles was fired right after the first of the year, while football coaches were fired before the first of the year, to save on taxes.  Maybe Kohl thought Skiles was a 1%er and didn't need the extra money.