NBA coaches will answer to a college coach, Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, for the first time in USA Basketball history in the three-year run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.
"This staff encompasses all the areas that need to be addressed," Krzyzewski said in a statement to The Associated Press. "We have NBA experience. We have international experience. We have backgrounds to teach different styles of basketball, including zone offense and defense."
USA Basketball men's senior national team managing director Jerry Colangelo said the core ? "six to 10 players" ? of the 20-member 2006-2008 national team will be announced by the end of December or early January. The rest will be selected by March.