CLEAMONS HOPES TO TAKE BULLS EXPERIENCE TO DALLAS.Byline: Jaime Aron Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Jim Cleamons James Mitchell (Jim) Cleamons (born September 13 1949 in Lincolnton, North Carolina) is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach. He has been an assistant under head coach Phil Jackson with both the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers. spent his first full day as coach of the Dallas Mavericks  The introduction of this article is too short.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, it should be expanded. trying to get comfortable with the fact that, finally, he was the team's coach. ``To be honest, I haven't had time to realize it. It hasn't yet sunk in,'' he said Thursday. Cleamons' confusion is understandable. He was hired May 31 but left town almost immediately to get back to his other job as assistant coach of the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= champion 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. . Once the Bulls wrapped up their title Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. , Cleamons barely had time to wash the celebratory champagne out of his hair before heading to Texas. He arrived Wednesday and immediately went to work analyzing tape of draft picks with player personnel director Keith Grant. Cleamons spent a few minutes with prospective pick Lorenzen Wright Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright (born November 4 1975) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. After being selected seventh overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1996 NBA Draft out of the University of Memphis, the 6'11" (2. and planned to visit Thursday with Kerry Kittles. Antoine Walker was expected to drop by Friday. John Wallace and Samaki Walker also have been to Dallas, while scouts went to Starkville, Miss., to check out Erick Dampier. Which of those big guys Dallas takes with the No. 6 pick in Wednesday's draft could be up to Cleamons, a notion he likes. ``Now, rather than being the assistant making suggestions, I'm the head coach with major input,'' said Cleamons, adding that no decision will be made without a consensus among himself, Grant and the scouts. ``Keith is the man right now,'' Cleamons said. ``He's done an outstanding job holding down the fort. His input is going to be monumental.'' Cleamons took the job knowing his team needed inside muscle for rebounding. ``If we can't rebound, we won't play the way I want to,'' he said. ``Any time you have an asset like Jason Kidd, you should run the floor and fill the lanes around him. To do so, you have to be able to play defense and rebound.'' Cleamons already has spoken with Kidd and several other players about how he plans to run the team. |
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