[TimesPicayune] Shinn expected to decide on coach
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Shinn expected to decide on coach
Whether owner met with Hill not certain
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
By Jimmy Smith and John Reid par Staff writers
Having apparently completed interviews with the acknowledged
head coaching candidates, Hornets owner George Shinn must now
decide which one is right for the job.
Shinn was scheduled to meet with former Hornets assistant Brian
Hill in New Orleans on Tuesday, but the team could not confirm
that the session took place. Shinn was neither in the Hornets'
downtown offices or at the Alario Center training facility.
Hill could not be reached for comment.
But league sources said now that Shinn has met with Byron Scott,
Michael Cooper, Mike Fratello and Hill, a decision on the Hornets'
next head coach could come soon.
Unlike last year when executive vice president of basketball
operations and general manager Bob Bass conducted the search to
replace Paul Silas, bringing Shinn in on the process only after
the first round of interviews had been done, Shinn has been the
point man in the search to find a successor to Tim Floyd, who
was fired May 7.
Shinn met with Scott during two days at the beginning of last
week, then flew to Los Angeles this past weekend to talk with
Cooper and Fratello, before returning to New Orleans late Monday
night or early Tuesday morning apparently to meet with Hill,
sources said.
Scott could not be reached Tuesday, nor could his agent, Brian
McInery.
Fratello, whom Shinn is believed to have met with in Los Angeles
on Monday, has not returned telephone calls, and neither has his
agent, Atlanta-based Lonnie Cooper.
Cooper also represents Hill.
Shinn set out to find a proven NBA head coach. Three of the four
he has interviewed have head coaching experience in the league.
Only Michael Cooper, head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks,
has not been an NBA head coach. He also has been unavailable for
comment.
Through a spokesman on Monday, Shinn would only say that the
interview process was continuing and that when he had come to a
decision, the team would make an announcement.
Bass, who is retiring at the end of next month, would not comment
on Tuesday.
. . . . . . .
Jimmy Smith can be reached at jsmith@timespicayune.com or (504) 826-3814.
John Reid can be reached at jreid@timespicayune.com or (504) 826-3787.
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