and surprised the league with a 43–39 record and a near-playoff berth. He was fired the next season after an 11-game losing streak. Second stints Shue finally agreed to head coach the Washington Bullets when he signed a three-year contract to succeed Dick Motta on May 27, 1980. He would coach in Washington for six seasons. His final head coaching assignment began on May 21, 1987, when he signed a three-year contract to return to the Clippers, which had relocated to Los Angeles three years earlier. He succeeded Don Chaney and inherited a Clippers team which had an NBA-worst 12–70 record in an injury-riddled 1986–87 and had failed to qualify for the playoffs for eleven consecutive seasons. With the Clippers beginning 1988–89 at 10–28 and in the midst of an eleven-game losing streak, Shue was fired on January 19, 1989, and assistant Don Casey was promoted to replace him. The Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat, that season's expansion entries, both earned their first-ever victories at the expense of the Clippers which had the same win total as the former at the time of the coaching change. Shue's record in years in Los Angeles was 27–93. Shue finished his coaching career with a regular-season record of 784–861 while going 30–47 in the playoffs. His 784 wins are the 16th-most in NBA history and his 861 losses are the sixth-most in NBA history. He won NBA Coach of the Year in 1968 and 1981, and was one of only eleven league coaches to win the award in multiple seasons at the time of his death. He was the Eastern Conference Coach for two All-Star Games, in 1969 and 1977. After his final coaching position, Shue opted to move to California to become vice president of a mortgage business and work for a bank, while also serving as an analyst for ESPN on Continental Basketball Association games. He would soon be chosen as the GM for the 76ers. He was infamously the target of Charles Barkley, who called Shue "a clown" as part of Barkley's effort to force a trade, and rumored tampering from executives from other teams. Legacy As a player Shue's dynamic guard play was influential for the newly formed NBA. He was known as a "gunner" who also played superb defense. His flair for dribbling and weaving was not the norm of the time, but would later become so for