“…Given that midseason change of coach is a very important management dilemma for the owners and general managers of sports teams, as Martínez & Caudill (2013) explain, and given that this topic has been widely treated in the specialized literature in different sports (e.g., Audas, Dobson & Goddard, 1997;Barros, Frick & Passos, 2009;Brown, 1982;Etzen & Yetman, 1972;González-Gómez, Picazo-Tadeo & García-Rubio, 2011;Koning;2003;Peñas, 2007;Pfeffer & Davis-Blake, 1986;Tena & Forrest, 2007;Wagner, 2010), a complementary vision of the data analysed by Martínez & Caudill (2013) is needed in order to obtain new evidence about the success of this decision for professional basketball teams.…”