It has staunchly avoided the gold standard of background checks, the type required for taxi drivers in most California cities: Live Scans. No ridesharing companies -- Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar -- do them. Anyone following Pando's ridesharing coverage has seen me harp and harp and harp on the importance of Live Scans.
SEATTLE, Nov. 27â Paul Westphal was fired today as the coach of the struggling Seattle SuperSonics after disagreements with some of his star players.hree years later, after 33 games that season, he was fired by the Suns. Photo: Paul Westphal, left, was dismissed as the SuperSonics coach only days after an on-court shouting match with the All-Star guard Gary Payton.
Paul Douglas Westphal (born November 30, 1950) is a retired American basketball player and a former head coach with several National Basketball Association (NBA) and college teams.Westphal has had a storied career in the NBA, both as a player and as a coach.As a player, he won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in the 1974 NBA Finals. In addition to being a five-time All-Star selection, from 1977 to 1981, Westphal earned three All-NBA First Team selections and one Second Team honor.e was the 10th overall pick in the 1972 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics. After three seasons in Boston, including a championship ring in 1974, he was traded to the Phoenix Suns. In 1976, Westphal helped the Suns reach their first-ever Finals appearance, where they played the Celtics.