Abendour has a criminal record? Curious.
I find Kander's mythological status to be a bit suspect personally. I have no agenda against him, but I remember features on him from the recent title era and he was into some things which are in the realm of homeopathic medicine, some of it dubious and some scientifically laughable.
I googled one of the things I could remember:
Sometimes, Kander even uses a machine to change the angles of the bonds in the water molecules.
"Ask anyone who has drank the right water," he said, "the right bond angle, the right temperature, the right alkalinity, and they'll say they can't go back."
http://www.aolnews.com/2007/03/28/there ... n-detroit/
The machine to change the bond angle of water, hoho. IIRC, that was something being sold on infomercials. Frankly, while I support open mindedness, that type of decision making doesn't strike me as suitable for someone in charge of advising highly expensive athletes on their health regimes. Straight pseudo-science here, which should be spotted for fraudulence (but not local media, of course) with an 8'th grade science background. While a harmless scam in general, such poor decision processes could turn out worse in some situations. In this case the most harm from the fake water bond angle altering machine is in its substitute for reality based prescriptions. I at least hope they've stopped this particular embarrassment.
The quoted article also mentions how (at the time) Kander was credited for Chris Webber's health turnaround, when in current perspective it was seen that Webber came in after off-time for rehab and then degenerated. Not indicating that Kander had a positive or negative influence, but note that he was building on his reputation when there was a situation for optimism and under no serious evaluation later on, as with most reporting on Kander.
Not to say that he is a total incompetent, I'm sure he means well and has large amounts of practical experience from being in his position for a long time, and from his personal background in sports and ballet. His track record for maintaining/promoting player health among NBA trainers is at least average. He must be the king of placebo effects in the NBA though, and maybe placebos can at times help. (An effort to be nice).
If I were the owner I would seriously review his practices and at the least bring in someone with a foundation in modern medical science. The idea that he would easily find a job in competing NBA teams is laughable to me. There are a lot of qualified people trained in this area and I doubt his homeopathic style has a place in a modern professional sports environment, except for here where he has a history and favorable reputation from local puff reporting which actually (as above) has lauded him for idiocy and credited him for a lot of things where his contribution was not actually clear. I've probably forgotten some cases where Kander has come through, but it's a question of whether he did anything that someone trained at the professional sports level for physical therapy would not.
Personally, for the sake of having hope in our players having good health, I'm glad most NBA players have personal extensive backgrounds in health management and training from high school and collegiate levels. Actually, after typing all this out, I think I changed my mind about having an agenda. It's best not to think about it, that is all I can think positively about Kander ATM. In response to the OP, I would not be heartbroken if Kander quit if Joe Dumars were fired, however I'm sure he would not find other NBA teams looking for his home remedy placebo based approach knocking on his door.