Steve Kerr had left the Windy City, just as most of the rest of the players from the Chicago Bulls' championship teams had done, before Tim Floyd paced his first hundred miles along the United Center sideline.

Kerr, playing for yet another NBA title now with the San Antonio Spurs, nevertheless could pass along glad tidings for the guy who got a second chance at being a professional coach Monday from the Hornets.

"That's great; I'm happy for him," Kerr said before the Spurs' off-day workout at the New Jersey Nets' practice facility. "Good for him."

Nets forward Kerry Kittles, the object of Floyd's attention during the recruiting process when Kittles, then at St. Augustine High School, was considering whether to join Floyd's program at UNO, also was tossing good cheer.

"Tim Floyd has always been a class act," Kittles said, "a guy who always treated me well ever since he recruited me out of high school and in the times I played against him in Chicago. He was always a class guy."