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• Problems Still Plague Cinderella Houston
• By Terrance Harris 3/17/2010 9:00 PM ET
• HOUSTON -- Tom Penders was so impressed with the initial pitch to come to the University of Houston in 2004 that he got up and walked out on then-athletic director Dave Maggard. While Maggard was ... More »
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• Byron Scott Fired by Hornets
• By Brett Pollakoff 11/12/2009 2:00 PM ET
• How good are the Phoenix Suns this season? It may be too early to tell, but they're at least good enough to get their latest opponent's head coach fired just nine games into the season. Byron Scott ... More »
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• Pistons Settle on John Kuester
• By Matt Watson 7/08/2009 4:30 AM ET
• John Kuester has agreed to terms to become the next coach of the Detroit Pistons. Kuester wasn't Joe Dumars' first choice. (That'd be Doug Collins, who kept his hat in the ring just long enough to ... More »
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• Avery Johnson Reportedly Won't Be Next Pistons Coach
• By Brett Pollakoff 7/07/2009 1:54 PM ET
• The Pistons' head coaching search has narrowed, with the former favorite to secure the job now apparently out of the running. Avery Johnson was perceived as the leading candidate for the position, ... More »
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• Wolves Will Need an Experienced Coach
• By Tim Povtak 6/24/2009 6:45 PM ET
• Now with four first-round picks to worry about -- and a unique chance to restart the franchise -- new Minnesota Timberwolves boss David Kahn doesn't have enough hours in the day to focus on his first ... More »
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• The Rotation: Short NBA Coach Carousel
• By Tom Ziller 4/07/2009 1:00 PM ET
• The Rotation is a weekly study on the NBA by one of our All-Star voices. In rotation this week is Tom Ziller. An annual tradition regular as daybreak, as the season ends a pack of coaches are ... More »
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• Upbeat Amare Acknowledges Trade Rumors, Hits Back at ESPN
• By Matt Watson 2/09/2009 8:50 AM ET
• AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Amare Stoudemire knows he's on the trading block, and he knows we know. While most athletes would dodge questions about rumors with trite cliches, Stoudemire was refreshingly ... More »
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• NBA Essentials: Pau Gasol for Three?
• By Brett Pollakoff 10/16/2008 12:08 PM ET
• NBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. OC Register's Lakers Blog: Remember Tim Duncan hitting that three-pointer in the playoffs last season against the Suns? Pau Gasol might be ...
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• Mark Cuban's Off-Season Choice: Fire Avery Johnson, or Trade Almost Half His Team Away
• By Brett Pollakoff 9/30/2008 12:37 PM ET
• I always find it interesting how, at the time a story's developing, details are often few and far between. But months later, a bunch of facts come out (or at least one person's version of them) that ...
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• Josh Howard Talks About Weed, David Stern, Rick Carlisle and Not Being 'Brutally Honest'
• By Will Brinson 6/04/2008 3:15 PM ET
• Southwest Kia has a very nice interview with Josh Howard, who made some late season noise when ESPN decided that his marijuana smoking admission was "news". But hey, when you wield the biggest media ...
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• Avery Johnson Is Slinging Nissans Now
• By Will Brinson 5/27/2008 10:10 PM ET
• You know what? If I was getting paid several million dollars to coach NBA basketball, without actually even coaching, I would probably announce for a year and set up shop in a car dealership in North ...
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• Bulls Trying to Interview Everybody Who's Ever Wanted to Be an NBA Coach
• By Matt Watson 5/23/2008 6:35 PM ET
• The Bulls are taking their time with this whole "finding a coach" thing, interviewing just about anyone with a shred of interest in the job. According to Brian Hanley of the Chicago Sun-Times, John ...
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• Donnie Walsh Gets His Coach, But His Credibility Takes a Hit
• By Matt Watson 5/12/2008 4:30 PM ET
• One of the first things Donnie Walsh promised to do upon taking over the Knicks was repairing the franchise's fractured relationship with the media. Unfortunately, he's gotten off to a rocky start. ... More »
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• Avery Johnson Scheduled to Interview for the Knicks Job
• By Brett Pollakoff 5/06/2008 2:35 PM ET
• Not so fast, Mark Jackson. New York Knicks team president Donnie Walsh is scheduled to meet with Avery Johnson today to discuss the team's current opening for a head coach. As you may recall, Mark ...
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• Look at the Losers: Dallas Mavericks
• By Will Brinson 5/02/2008 7:00 PM ET
• Gaaaah. 67 wins ... Dwyane Wade ... Golden State!! ... Dirk is "soft" ... Jason Kidd ... Avery Johnson ... Implosion. That's a very rough timeline -- storyline for the Dallas Mavericks over the past ... More »
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• Play On, Haters: Hornets Advance Over Dallas
• By Will Brinson 4/29/2008 11:59 PM ET
• There's a slew of "new" versus "old" changing of the guard notions buried within the New Orleans Hornets -- Dallas Mavericks series that just ended. The one time perennial contender Maverick team is ... More »
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• Mid-Sink Mutiny: Mavericks Practice without Avery Johnson Monday
• By Will Brinson 4/29/2008 2:00 PM ET
• Various Mavericks fans have been calling for Johnson's termination since the Warriors upended Dallas in the first round of last season, but Mark Cuban has stood pretty firmly by his coach. But you ...
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• Dirk Surprises the Warriors by Returning
• By Matt Watson 4/03/2008 8:00 AM ET
• Remember how Dirk Nowitzki said his ankle was too hurt to play last night? Yeah, he was lying: he scored 18 points in 27 points minutes to help the Mavs over the Warriors. As Avery Johnson explained ... More »
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• Mark Cuban - Avery Johnson Act Like Their Postgame Fight Is Not a Big Deal
• By Will Brinson 3/20/2008 10:00 AM ET
• With Dallas providing a failed comeback that did little to mask the 20 plus points the Lakers were throttling them by at one point, it has become obvious that this Mavs team might not exactly be ...
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• Mark Cuban 'Didn't Notice' Kidd on the Bench
• By Will Brinson 3/01/2008 4:00 PM ET
• There are a substantial amount of Dallas Mavericks fans up in arms over Avery Johnson's decision to bench Jason Kidd for the end of the game against the Spurs the other night. Substantial enough for ...
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