I?m a teacher,?? says Aguirre, a three-time All-Star with Dallas and twice an NBA champion with Detroit but now a member of old friend Isiah Thomas? staff with the Indiana Pacers. ?You know me. I don?t want a title. I?m just making him (Thomas) some basketball players.??
    Aguirre?s role as the Pacers? ?Dean of Students?? is not unlike the job he had with the Mavs a few years ago, when then-GM Frank Zaccanelli relied heavily on his friend Aguirre for advice.
     ?I?ve never been in it for ego or whatever,?? Aguirre says of his new career as a basketball instructor. ?I just want to be able to sit back and watch the guys I?ve maybe helped a little bit on TV.??
    Here?s Aguirre?s takes on the return to the NBA of long-time rival Michael Jordan, the rumored return of 40-year-old Dennis Rodman, and the return to tutoring of Aguirre himself: