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why are we "loling" at avery? \
Nash needs to demand that Phoenix terminates his contract and sign with Dallas for the LLE to play his his buddy Dirk. What do u think DuncanownsKobe?
Take his gay lazy "having fun is more important than winning" ass, and do it quickly.
why are we "loling" at avery? \
One of their 5 best, yes. Not saying a whole lot though.
Because Mono believes rumors and half-truths about someone he doesn't like if he can repeat it as though its a fact. So he premature ejaculated on two unrelated quotes from Dumars and Avery that supports his theory that AJ is a liar (DEBBOL) and is the sole reason that his team completely sucks and is on the verge of losing the guy they traded young players, cash and draft picks for.
DEBBOL.
Certainly works better than pretending exact quotes don't exist.
If you find an exact quote from Timmy saying "I don't like Avery Johnson" from earlier than 2004, or an exact quote from someone in the Mavs organization saying "Avery Johnson was the only one that wanted Jason Kidd and he was willing to give up Devin Harris and a bunch of draft picks to get him.", consider your apology forthcoming.
I'll never find the second because Avery wasn't the only one who wanted Kidd. Mark and Donnie did too.
Here's an interesting read. I love me some rumors and half-truths.
http://mavsblog.dallasnews.com/archi...ason-kidd.html
Johnson began to complain early in the season that this team wouldn't go far unless it got a point guard it could trust. After that, Cuban probably pushed first and hardest for Kidd. Nelson went along with the owner. Johnson was in favor initially, but began to waver as the trade stopped and stalled. I was told in the end, Johnson felt the Mavericks gave up too much to acquire Kidd but was still on board with the deal.
debbol.
Solid thread...
Updated: July 7, 2009, 12:13 PM ET
Sources: Johnson, Pistons can't agree
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By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
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Avery Johnson will not be the next coach of the Detroit Pistons.
The Detroit Pistons and the ESPN analyst broke off contract talks Tuesday after more than two days of negotiations, according to sources close to the process.
Sources told ESPN.com that the Pistons -- having paid both Flip Saunders and Michael Curry last season and still owing $5 million to Curry over the next two seasons -- were only willing to offer Johnson a two-year deal with a team option for a third season. It's believed that Johnson wanted no less than the security of a four-year contract, given where the Pistons are in the Eastern Conference hierarchy after a 39-43 season and the fact that Detroit is looking for its sixth coach in Joe Dumars' 10 seasons running the team's front office.
As ESPN.com reported late Monday, Dumars is now expected to turn to Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach John Kuester to replace Curry. TNT analyst Doug Collins withdrew from consideration last week and the only other known candidate is Boston Celtics associate head coach Tom Thibodeau, but sources say that Kuester's offensive expertise and history with the Pistons after working as an assistant under Larry Brown appeal strongly to Dumars.
Marc Stein covers the NBA for ESPN.com.
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Good decision on both sides. Pistons didn't want to overpay on a contract longer than they were willing to give. And, Avery shouldn't budge on that because Mark Cuban is paying him $4 million a year for the next two years to sit on his ass.
I'm good with him not being the next Pistons coach. I think it was the right decision for both parties.
^ Pistons dodged a bullet.
Perhaps, but it's not like there are any HOF coaches available. Even if the Pistons land one of the highly regarded assistant coaches, John Kuester or Tom Thibodeau, there ain't no guarantee they can hack it as a head coach. Eh, I would have been ok with Avery but I'm not distraught now that he's not the guy. I would still love Jeff Van Gundy to get a shot to coach the team. He's not being mentioned at all. Not even as a possible candidate, not once since Curry was fired.
Looks like the only team who actually wanted Avery the past couple of years was even scared to commit longterm at all to him.
oh, and lol Avery
He and Joe Dumars were such close buddies (according to Avery), it's shocking he didn't get the job.
rofl Spurs fans have no comment anymore.
............................debbol.
I don't think his abilities as a coach were the determining factor, were they?
He's just too expensive for the Pistons right now.
Plus you claimed he didn't get offered another HC job, and he indeed get that.
The only one lol'ing here is Avery every time he cashes in $4 million/year from Cubes.
debbol indeed.
Typical Spurfan response. No, he couldn't possibly have been outright rejected. It had to be because coaching would get in the way of taking money from Cuban. Suck on that, Mavfan!
Straight from the horse mouth:
"Where we are as a team right now is where we were at the start of Rick Carlisle's era here," Dumars said. "We are in the same sort of transition mode. A $4 million to $5 million coach is not what we need right now."
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Oh, so the plan is to fire Kuester once he takes the Pistons to the ECF, then bring in Avery to win the le. Gotcha.
lol Avery. Man he's so dumb for getting paid more to do mindless ESPN work rather than coach in the NBA. lol lol lol
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