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Gets paid a few hundy thou to analyze games, and gets paid a couple mill by Cuban to not do anything else.
Not suprising.
Avery Johnson Suits Up for ESPN Analyst Gig
Former NBA Player, Coach Joins 'NBA Shootaround' Show
By Larry Barrett
ESPN Thursday said former NBA player and coach Avery Johnson will join the network’s NBA Shootaround pregame show as an analyst throughout the 2008-09 season.
Johnson, who played for 16 seasons and won an NBA championship playing guard for the San Antonio Spurs in 1999, most recently served as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks from 2004-2008.
Johnson will join host Stuart Scott and analyst Bill Walton before ESPN NBA broadcasts throughout the regular season and through the playoffs. He will also contribute to ABC’s GMC NBA Countdown.
“Avery has excelled in every professional endeavor and we know his success will carry over to his on-air role,” Norby Williamson, ESPN’s executive vice president of production, said in a statement. “His experience and passion for the game will resonate with our fans.”
Johnson in 2007 became the fastest coach to reach 150 wins and was named the NBA Coach of the Year in 2006 when his Mavericks advanced to the NBA Finals before falling to the Miami Heat.
Mavericks owner and HDNet founder Mark Cuban fired Johnson in April after the team was unceremoniously bounced from the playoffs in the first round for the second consecutive season.
Gets paid a few hundy thou to analyze games, and gets paid a couple mill by Cuban to not do anything else.
Not suprising.
Sweet... AJ's going to snap Walton's neck during one of the shows.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think he will be ok, he is not as pompous as an on air guy. He did ok in his few stints.
He has a voice for newspapers and a face for radio.
He became probobly their smartest analyst thats for sure.
Watching my TV try to figure out AJ's drawl in closed captioning should be as entertaining as the games.
Oh yes. I'll be tuning in.
ESPN just dropped a few more pegs lower than TNT
"The key to winning is TRAN-ZISH-E-OWN DE-FENSE."
"Ta ween, thill need sco-ren from not only the stotters, but also da ro playas."
I hope he does this gig for three years and collects every penny from Cuban.
Exactly. That's almost an MLE contract down the drainI hope he does this gig for three years and collects every penny from Cuban.
I never liked ESPN anyway.
yawn.. how is this spurs related? move the fuk on already.
Did the Spurs offer AJ something or was that just rumor?
This is important...I may need to rescind my concession to timvp.
Ya know its funny, you hate Avery Johnson, who did 50 million more things for the organization than that white stiff Nesterovic, yet you side for him.
What am I missing!?!?
Too late. I already printed it out.
Avery Johnson Drinking Game: Drink anytime he says, "confidence."
Johnson transitions to full-time role as ESPN NBA analyst
ESPN.com
ESPN has hired former Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson as an NBA studio analyst, teaming him with fellow analyst Bill Walton and host Stuart Scott on the network's NBA Shootaround pregame show throughout the season and postseason.
Johnson contributed to ESPN's coverage of the NBA playoffs earlier this year. He also will work at times on ABC's GM NBA Countdown show.
"ESPN and ABC has an abundance of terrific talent and I'm glad to launch my career in broadcasting with the premiere sports network," he said in a statement.
Johnson was fired by the Mavs last May after four seasons as coach. He took Dallas to the NBA Finals in 2006 -- he also was named the NBA's coach of the year -- but the team lost in the first round of the playoffs in his last two seasons. The Mavs won a club-record 67 games in the 2007-08 season and were 194-70 with him as coach.
Johnson also had a 16-year NBA career as a point guard and won the championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 1999. He also played for the Seattle SuperSonics (1988-90), Denver Nuggets (1990-91; 2001-02), Spurs (1991, 1992-93, 1994-2001), Houston Rockets (1992), Golden State Warriors (1993-94, 2003-04) and Mavericks (2002-03).
"Avery has excelled in every professional endeavor and we know his success will carry over to his on-air role," said Norby Williamson, ESPN executive vice president, production. "His experience and passion for the game will resonate with our fans."
His close association with the Mavs will not dissuade him from critiquing the club on camera.
"I have a job to do, and I will do it," Johnson said, according to The Dallas Morning News. "It will give me great joy to have insights because I worked so closely with some of them for a lot of years."
that seriously made me lol. My boss asked what was so funny, I told him and he lol'd as well.
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