Kings To Ask Permission For Carlesimo Interview

[RON ARTEST]

adelman would never take an assistant coaching job. plus hes taking a year off anyway.

[unartested]

How many Pop proteges would that be in the NBA now - three? (Brown, AJ, Carlisemo)

Dude know your own history here........ Pop is a protégé of Brown not vis versa..

In another first-round playoff series, the San Antonio Spurs play the Sacramento Kings. The Spurs -- the defending NBA champions -- are coached by Gregg Popovich. In 1988, Pop was hired as an assistant coach on Larry Brown’s staff with the Spurs. That was his first NBA job. Not only are Popovich and Brown great friends, but the Spurs start 40 percent of their starting lineup with players who started for Brown (Bruce Bowen and Nazr Mohammed).

But the last three (and four of the last seven) have been won by Brown or his coaching disciple, Popovich[/COLOR]]http://www.nba.com/encyclopedia/coaches/six_degrees_of_larry_brown.html

[Kori Ellis]

He's talking about Mike Brown.

[strangeweather]

Dude know your own history here........ Pop is a protégé of Brown no vis versa..

That would be Cleveland's Mike Brown, a former assistant to Pop in SA and Carlisle in Indy.

[boutons_]

PJ couldn't be considered a protege of Pop. He already had extensive college and some pro coaching before the choking incident that left him an unemployed refugee and available to join Pop's staff. Pop mentoring PJ doesn't fit.

[SpurYank]

So, according to you experts, PJ had more to do with the defeat of the Spurs. More than whom? I saw the same games you all did. The defeat of the Spurs was caused by several hot shooting Mavs and a ball that bounced the wrong way at opportune times. There is little to choose between these two teams. We don't need more athleticism nor speed. We need these same players to be in the best of shape, form, and mind.

We'll be okay. Michael Wilbon said it best about our team. " You knew they were coming back ... They are a team with honor and integrity."

And Pop leads the way. We will all regret the day he leaves.

[MadDog73]

And Pop leads the way. We will all regret the day he leaves.

Word. How people can hate on a man who's won us three Championships and basically built the present team by keeping Tim and practically starting the foreign player investment craze.

To let Pop go would be the absolute worst thing the Spurs could ever do.

[unartested]

My bad I thought he was refering to larry....

[angel_luv]

I'm so torn. Coach Carlesimo most definitely deserves the job, but I selfishly want us to keep him!

[Kori Ellis]

Now Mario Elie is interviewing.


http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2457165

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com


The Sacramento Kings have received permission from the Golden State Warriors to interview Mario Elie for their head-coaching vacancy, according to NBA coaching sources.

Elie, who just completed his second season as a Warriors assistant to Mike Montgomery, is expected to meet with Kings co-owners Joe and Gavin Maloof and Kings president of basketball operations Geoff Petrie by week's end.

Joe Maloof told ESPN.com Tuesday that he was heading to Las Vegas to join his brother and Petrie to conduct multiple interviews this week, as the Kings intensify their search to replace Rick Adelman.

Memphis assistant Eric Musselman interviewed with the Kings on Wednesday.

Maloof also said Tuesday that the Kings are planning to request permission to speak with San Antonio assistant P.J. Carlesimo.

Carlesimo hasn't been an NBA head coach since a Golden State tenure (1997-99) most remembered for the Latrell Sprewell choking incident. Yet he quickly surfaced as a potential Adelman replacement, with the Maloofs known to be big admirers of San Antonio's defense-first philosophy and approach to team-building.

But Elie, 43, has Spurs ties as well, after helping San Antonio win its first of three championships as a player in 1999. And Elie's candidacy in Sacramento, according to coaching sources, could be enhanced by the Dallas Mavericks' playoff success.

Sacramento, according to sources, sees some Avery Johnson potential in Elie, after Johnson and Elie combined to supply much of the vocal leadership for the Spurs' first championship team in 1999.

In his first full season in Dallas, Johnson quickly lived up to his reputation as an X-and-O natural, intensely guiding the Mavericks to the Western Conference finals and winning Coach of the Year honors.

Elie, an assistant for one season in San Antonio before joining the Warriors, was also known for his intensity as a player and has an existing relationship with fellow New Yorker Ron Artest, Sacramento's enigmatic new franchise player.

Besides Elie and Musselman, it's believed that John Whisenant of the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs will also be interviewed this week.

[T Park]

lol

go ahead and hire Mario....

[RON ARTEST]

lol

go ahead and hire Mario....

why? do you want to keep pj or do you think the kings would suck with mario?

[AFE7FATMAN]

Sending PJ to Sacto would mean, that Sacto will eliminate Spurs next season.

Keep PJ, let unquestionable genius go.

If this was to happen than Mario might be willing to come back to
SA. I wonder what he would say at half time when their is a lack of
effort.