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Bird reportedly leaving Pacers job
Larry Bird turned the Indiana Pacers around after he took over as president in 2008. He capped it by being named NBA Executive of the Year with a strong playoff showing this season.
And now it appears to be over.
The NBA Hall of Famer will not return to the team, according to a report in the Indianapolis Star.
Bird is "100 percent sure" of his decision and will finalize...
Breaking: Larry Bird out for “health reasons”
Breaking: Larry Bird out for “health reasons” - Pacers CenterAccording to Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star, Pacers president Larry Bird is calling it quits. According to the story: Bird is “100 percent sure” he will not return as president of the team, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Star on Monday. Bird is on a “handshake” deal with owner...
Report: Larry Bird Stepping Down as President of Pacers
Larry Bird's tenure as president of the Indiana Pacers appears to be nearing its end. Bird is "100 percent" sure that he won't return to the team, according to the Indianapolis Star. Bird coached the Pacers for three seasons from 1997-2000 before returning as the team's president of basketball operations in 2003. The longtime Celtic great was even named NBA...
Larry Legend Heads Home, Bird Resigns As Pacers President
Winds of change swept through the front office of the Indiana Pacers, on Tuesday according to the “Indianapolis Star,” as the paper has reported that the club’s General Manager David Morway, resigned his position with the franchise and in a rather surprising move, Pacers Team President Larry Bird, decided to step away from his duties with the club. The former Hall Of Fame...
Top 10 reasons why Larry Bird is leaving the Pacers
10) Kind of doubts the team is going to get tougher just because he said so9) Being so much better at his job than Isiah Thomas kind of gets old after a few decades8) Just realized that his team's best player is, in fact, Danny Freaking Granger7) Tired of having to brown-bag his lunch, like every other GM of a small market team6) Knows that after you've been named executive...
Report: Larry Bird calls it quits with the Indiana Pacers
NBA legend Larry Bird will not return as president to the Indiana Pacers franchise according to Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star. In the report, it also mentions just a few days ago that Donnie Walsh was hired and it seems he will take over Bird’s position. Larry Bird has decided to call it quits [...]
Larry Bird Leaves Pacers, Having Cleaned Up Franchise's Image in Eight Years Since Brawl
The 2006-07 Indiana Pacers were no Dream Team. They won 35 games, found enough playing time to give 38-year-old Darrell Armstrong 15 minutes a game and eventually cost Rick Carlisle, an excellent coach, his job. Danny Granger was a budding star and Jermaine O'Neal enjoyed the last All-Star caliber season of his long career, but the Pacers enjoyed few bright spots that season...
Larry Bird To Leave Pacers
Larry Bird has decided to end his tenure as president of the Pacers.
Walsh To Return To Pacers As President, Pritchard To Become GM
Kevin Pritchard will be named general manager, while Donnie Walsh returns as team president.
Walsh To Have Final Say On Personnel Moves
Donnie Walsh has been named Indiana's president of basketball operations while Kevin Pritchard will be the general manager.
Pacers offseason update #2
Okay, so as it turned out, I was wrong. Larry Bird, despite sounding like he wanted to return, will resign as Pacers president. He'll apparently stick around for the draft, but after that, he will be replaced by the familiar face of Donnie Walsh, who is coming off a one-year hiatus as Knicks president.Dang.Not that I have anything against Walsh. After all, he was the dude that...
Pacers' GM Morway resigns
General manager David Morway resigned from the Indiana Pacers, the team announced Tuesday. Morway relinquished most of his day-to-day duties around the same time the postseason ended. He hasn't been involved in draft or free agency preparation. The move was expected, as the front office is reconfigured without president of basketball operations Larry Bird and Morway. Bird...
Indiana Pacers have in-house business to take care this off-season
Larry Bird has done a tremendous job in building the Indiana Pacers back to a contender in the Eastern Conference. The team was very active last off-season in signing free agent David West and trading for George Hill. Even though the Pacers are experiencing a bit of a front office shake-up, they have some in-house business to take care of this off-season by re-signing Hill and...
NBA 2K13 Cover features Durant, Rose, and Griffin
<a href="http://www.mogreet.com/moshare/it/" class="moshare-button-hor" data-channel="wordpress-1.2.8" data-message="NBA 2K 13 pulled out all the stops and have landed Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, and Blake Griffin for this year's cover. Not a bad group of folks.
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