The Bakersfield Jam named Jim Harrick their first head coach.  Harrick had stops in the college ranks with Rhode Island, Georgia and UCLA, where he won a National Championship.

"I've been sitting around doing nothing," he told The (Bakersfield) Californian. "I think my wife wanted it more than I did. Get me out of the house. It'll hurt my (golf) handicap, but that's what I do. That's all I've done my whole life."

Harrick had spent the last three years scouting for the NBA's Denver Nuggets and traveling to China to help develop basketball there.