Over the years, I’ve had numerous teachers tell me that teaching children is definitely not something that can be taken lightly. Either the passion and the patience to guide children is there, or it’s not. A teacher who tries to coast or just collect a paycheck every two weeks will usually get exposed, and eventually fired. The same concept applies to the NBA.

AP Photo Yahoo! Sports reports that Flip Saunders, formerly the head coach of the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves, will be the next head coach of the Wizards. League sources told Yahoo! Sports that Saunders comes to the team on a four-year, $18 million deal. Saunders — who has done pretty much everything one can do in terms of coaching professional basketball but win a NBA championship — will take over the helms after…