Report: Warriors assistant coach Erman was fired for secretly recording conversations

It was strange to see the Golden State Warriors remove two assistant coaches in short order just before the postseason.

Even one seemed odd, with Brian Scalabrine being reassigned due to a "difference in philosophies," but a second shortly after made it seem as if Mark Jackson was losing control. With the organization being very quiet about the removal of Darren Erman after Scalabrine, the team's coaching dynamic was left to the imagination.

However, a report from ESPN early Tuesday shifts the blame squarely off of Jackson and the Warriors, indicating that they really didn't have a choice. Erman's "violation of company policy" was allegedly that he was secretly recording team conversations.

From the report:

Sources said Erman, who was coach Mark Jackson's second assistant, would record coaches' meetings, meetings between the coaches and players, and informal discussions among coaches that took place in the team's coaches room -- all without the participants' knowledge.

"He was taping everything," one source said. "Taping pregame speeches wouldn't have been that bad, but he was taping guys just sitting around talking in the coaches' office."
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It is unclear what Erman did with the recordings. The sources weren't sure if he shared them with the club's owners or front office executives.

If the report is correct, there's really no blaming Jackson and the franchise any longer. Odd as the timing may have been, that seems a pretty fireable offense.

We'd be interested to hear the audio from a Warriors practice, though we're 99 percent sure it would just be a bunch of swish noises and Steph Curry laughing.

It doesn't seem to have hurt Erman much, however, as he was reportedly hired on Tuesday as the director of NBA scouting for the Boston Celtics.