BRIEFLY : CARLISLE DOESN'T WANT BULLS JOB.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Rick Carlisle Richard Preston Carlisle (pronounced KAHR-lye-uhl) (born October 27, 1959 in Ogdensburg, New York) is a former basketball player and former coach of the NBA's Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons. Playing career Carlisle was raised in Lisbon, New York. has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Chicago Bulls The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the National Basketball Association. The team was founded in 1966, and has won six NBA Championships since. coaching job to stay as an assistant with the Indiana Pacers “Pacers” redirects here. For other uses, see Pacers (disambiguation). The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). . The Indianapolis Star reported Sunday that Carlisle telephoned Jerry Krause Jerry Krause was a longtime professional basketball scout and General Manager for, among other franchises, the Baltimore Bullets and, most notably, the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. He is a two-time recipient of the NBA's Executive of the Year award. , the Bulls' vice president of basketball operations, to tell him of his decision. Carlisle, 38, has been an NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= assistant since 1989, serving with New Jersey and Portland before Pacers coach Larry Bird hired him last year. Carlisle interviewed with Krause and Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf on July 7. He is among a small group publicly acknowledged as candidates to replace Phil Jackson, who led the Bulls to the NBA championship six times in the past eight years. Carlisle directed Indiana's offense last year. The Pacers pushed Chicago to seven games in the Eastern Conference finals. ``I've never known a situation where an assistant coach had total input on what a team does offensively,'' Carlisle said. ``To me, this is the closest you can come to being a head coach. This year has given me so much experience about how to think like a head coach. I couldn't have asked for anything more.'' Former Texas Tech standout Jason Sasser scored 15 points and former Xavier player Michael Hawkins added 12 points, four assists and three steals as all 15 USA Basketball players scored in a 95-78 exhibition victory over Spain in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was USA Basketball's second victory in as many days in preparation for the World Championships, following Saturday's 93-63 rout of France. The team begins World Championship play on July 29. TRACK AND FIELD: Six days after breaking the world 1,500-meter mark, Hachim El Guerrouj failed in a bid to become the fastest ever in the 2,000 meters when he clocked 4 minutes, 48.35 seconds at Gateshead, England, .47 off the record. The 23-year-old Moroccan was left to run the last 600 meters on his own after Kenyan pacemakers Sammy Langat and William Tanui dropped out after keeping him on a world-record pace. SAILING: America's Cup competitor Stars and Stripes Stars and Stripes nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567] See : America finished the Race to Mackinac in course-record time at Mackinac Island, Mich., leading a field of 298 boats in the 333-mile event. The 60-foot Morrelli catamaran catamaran (kăt'əmərăn`), watercraft made up of two connected hulls or a single hull with two parallel keels. Originally used by the natives of Polynesia, the catamaran design was adopted by Western boat builders in the 19th cent. piloted by Chicago's Steve Fossett finished in 19 hours, 50 minutes, beating the previous multi-hull boat record of 29:35. |
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