Jim Armstrong has some comments on acquiring Larry Brown to coach in Denver. Also, a couple comments on Yao Ming, and even a mention of Priest Lauderdale.
May 2002 Denver Nuggets Wiretap
Kiki Vandeweghe will be present at Yao Ming's workout for teams and the media @ Loyola University in Chicago. The Nuggets will have a pick in the top seven in this years NBA draft.
The article also mentions a couple of coaching candidates still acting as assistants in the playoffs. Marc Spears writes about scouting and the open coaching position.
Also, an article from the Daily Camera on Larry Brown. Mentions the Nuggets and his current contract with the 76ers. Ashley Fox writes about the NBA coach making a reported $6 million per year.
Gary Baines has an article on Donn Nelson and his thoughts and feelings about leaving his father's staff for a head coaching position.
Dallas is still involved in the playoffs, and Donn Nelson hopes to win a championship with his father.
He also mentions Larry Brown, Mike Dunleavy, and Mike Evans as other possible candidates.
The Nuggets players, coaches, and front office, chipped in to give owner Stan Kroenke a Harley motorcycle as a token of appreciation.
The story by Kyle Ringo talks about the Nuggets beginning of the hiring process for the position of head coach.
Kiki Vandeweghe stated that the Nuggets would start by interviewing Mike Evans, and then continue the interviewing process until after the playoffs and maybe after the draft.
Former Nugget Anthony Goldwire is now playing in Italy and hoping for a successful summer. He's looking to hook on with an NBA squad after being disappointed by John Lucas, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Denver Nuggets last off-season.
John Henderson has an article on Anthony Goldwire, and his thoughts and life playing basketball overseas.
Former Nugget Anthony Goldwire is now playing in Italy and hoping for a successful summer. He's looking to hook on with an NBA squad after being disappointed by John Lucas, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Denver Nuggets last off-season.
John Henderson has an article on Anthony Goldwire, and his thoughts and life playing basketball overseas.
The Denver Post
Kiki Vandeweghe discusses the beginning of the interviewing process for the Denver Nuggets head coaching job. He mentions a short list. Marc Spears gives readers quite a long list of prospective candidates.
Mike Evans will be the first to interview.
Gery Woelfel of the Racine Journal Times reports: You don't have to have a doctorate in professional basketball to realize the proverbial crap is going to hit the fan this summer with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Changes will be made. And they could be radical changes. You know Bucks owner Herb Kohl, general manager Ernie Grunfeld and coach George Karl -- all intensely competitive in their own right -- won't accept the status quo.
The odds are overwhelming one of the Bucks' so-called "Big Three" of Ray Allen, Sam Cassell and Glenn Robinson will be relocated to another zip code. Of course, Bucks management almost broke up the Big Three just prior to the February trading deadline. According to a Bucks insider, that's when the Denver Nuggets had a deal on the table in which the Bucks could have obtained Raef LaFrentz, Kenosha native Nick Van Exel and George McCloud for Tim Thomas, Joel Przybilla and Cassell.
"I heard about that,'' Van Exel told me. "I thought it was going to happen.''
Instead, the Nuggets dealt Van Exel and LaFrentz to Dallas as part of a multi-player deal that brought them Juwan Howard. While Van Exel and LaFrentz went on to help the Mavs advance to the playoffs, the Bucks went into a free fall seldom seen in NBA history.
Now the Bucks brass has to make a slew of decisions, many of major proportion. None of them will involve Karl; he's staying put. You can't safely say the same about Cassell, Robinson and Allen.
Kelly Pate has an article on the profitability of the Nuggets, Avalanche and the Pepsi Center. Focus is on Stan Kroenke and how he's operating in the black.
They expect the Nuggets to be a top five NBA team in the next five years.
A look at the important dates concerning NBA basketball and the Denver Nuggets organization. Quite a few names on the list for the head coaching position. Personally, I didn't like the college coaches being named. Larry Brown is the only guy that's been successful coming from the college ranks.
Marc Spears writes about the major issues of rebuilding the Nuggets this summer. Free agents, team options, the draft lottery, Denver's 3 picks, assistant coaches, and Antonio McDyess.