BILL LAIMBEER RUMORS
Ex-NBA Player Travis Mays Blazes Own Trail In Accepting Texas Women’s Basketball Coaching Duties
This is a sign of the times. Men going into the women’s ranks for coaching opportunities.
The precedent has already been set several times over. Former NBA all-stars have taken head coaching responsibilities for WNBA teams, Ex-Laker great-Michael Cooper and Ex-Piston greats Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn, just to name a few.
Also, UConn Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma has...
Via Midwest Sports Fans
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April 18, 2012
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April 18, 2012
Discuss
Reeve would like to see more female coaches
MINNEAPOLIS Years ago, as an assistant with the Detroit Shock, Cheryl Reeve would often debate the importance of female coaches in the WNBA with head coach Bill Laimbeer. This was ten years into the league's existence Reeve coached in Detroit between 2006 and 2009 past the initial wave of female coaches and their replacement by men with NBA pedigrees, when the future of female...
Via Fox Sports North
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March 30, 2012
No Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow, or Jeremy Lin
It is not uncommon for me to watch Sportscenter twice in a row (I’m looking for suggestions on what to call this, if you’ve got one let me here it) but since Peyton Manning decided to sign with the Denver Broncos and then Tim Tebow was promptly traded to the New York Jets I knew that we were in for media overkill. ESPN has a way of taking a story and then talking about it to...
Via Bacon Sports
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March 22, 2012
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March 22, 2012
Links for 2012-02-29
An oral history of the Malice at the Palace
Blaha: "Bill Laimbeer and I were broadcasting the game down by the Pistons bench. Everything happened on the other end of press row. And the reason I wasn't particularly shook up about it is because Bill Laimbeer didn't seem to be particularly bothered by it. He was kind of nonplussed by the whole thing."
2: AN APPRECIATION...
Via MGoBlog
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March 01, 2012
Tuesday And-1 links, or how Kevin Love = Bill Laimbeer
Welcome to our morning look around the NBA — links to stories worth reading and notes to check out (stuff that did not get its own post here at PBT). Lamar Odom thinks Kevin Love is the Bill Laimbeer for a new generation. Dennis Rodman is going to coach a topless women’s basketball team in…
Via Pro Basketball Talk
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January 03, 2012
Lamar Odom: Kevin Love is ‘a New Version of Bill Laimbeer’
Following the Timberwolves’ Sunday night win over the Mavericks, Lamar Odom compared Kevin Love (who torched Dallas with 25 points and 17 boards) to Pistons’ great Bill Laimbeer. Per the Star-Telegram: “He’s almost like a new version of (Bill) Laimbeer to me,’ Odom, the Mavs’ forward, said. ‘Almost Laimbeer-like. But a little bit more athletic.&...
Via SLAM Online
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January 02, 2012
Top 10 Naughtiest NBA Players
Tis the season to be merry...However, some NBA players are notorious for being a Scrooge around the Holliday's. Bill Laimbeer (pictured above) was the dirtiest basketball player of all-time, but his days are long gone. Now, a new class of naughty has stepped to the forefront. This is the time of the year to be thankful for those around you, but not many people are thankful for...
Via Rant Sports
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December 20, 2011
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December 20, 2011
Bill Laimbeer caught a 75 pound fish.
Former Detroit Piston Bad Boy and Detroit Shock head coach Bill Laimbeer submitted a picture to the Naples Daily News after he caught a 75 and a half pound, 56 inch Cobia fish last week. He caught it while fishing with his wife about ten miles off the Marco Island, Florida shore.
Word out of Marco Island is that after this picture was taken, Laimbeer pulled the dock out from under...
Via It's Always Sunny in Detroit
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November 11, 2011
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November 11, 2011
THE TIMBERWOLVES HOT 25
