With management’s support (kinda, not really), VDN never shows panic in the line of fire: “Because Forman and vice president John Paxson declined to talk with the media gathered at the Berto Center after practice, Del Negro was left to address — again — a report concerning his job status. ‘It’s just funny to me,’ he said. ‘There’s really nothing to say. You have all these people that have rumors and everyone has their ‘sources.’ It’s just not accurate. I don’t have time to deal with rumors. I talk to Gar and Pax every day; they’re at practice every day.”‘