[TimesPicayune] Hornets to add Newman to staff
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Hornets to add Newman to staff
Orleanian, Gattison to be hired by Scott
Friday, June 04, 2004
By Jimmy Smith and John Reid par Staff writer
The Hornets soon will add two assistants to new coach Byron
Scott's staff, retaining Kenny Gattison from this year's
staff and adding New Orleans native Donald Newman, a former
Brother Martin High School standout, league sources said
Thursday.
Scott, speaking from his Livingston, N.J., home before
departing for Los Angeles for his television analyst role
with ABC for the NBA Finals, confirmed he's negotiating with
Newman and Gattison, but said no contract has been formalized.
Scott, who last week signed a three-year deal with the Hornets
worth $10 million plus incentives, also said he'll likely add
one more assistant to the staff.
League sources said Thursday that Larry Drew, who along with
Newman was an assistant to Scott with the New Jersey Nets this
season, is a possible candidate, as is former Celtics assistant
Lester Conner.
Sources also indicated that Jan van Breda Kolff and Jeff Bower,
assistants under former coach Tim Floyd, are not candidates for
the last assistant's position under Scott.
Sources said that Bower, who has held a variety of positions
with the Hornets from scout to general manager, will join the
team's basketball operations staff once the team hires a general
manager to replace Bob Bass, who is retiring.
Allan Bristow is considered the leading candidate to replace
Bass, and said last week he expects he will have a job in the
Hornets' front office but would not comment further. Team
owner George Shinn confirmed that Bristow will be part of the
Hornets' operation, but Shinn said he may hire more than one
person and divide Bass' duties.
Bower, van Breda Kolff, Newman and Gattison could not be
reached for comment Thursday.
An official announcement from the Hornets regarding the hires
won't be forthcoming until contracts are signed.
"When I brought him to Jersey (last summer, after a four-year
association with the Milwaukee Bucks), I loved the way he taught
the game from the technical standpoint," Scott said of Newman.
"There are a lot of different things he can do, and I like the
way he can handle almost any situation."
Newman was hired by the Nets last August. He had been with
Milwaukee as an assistant for four years after being an
assistant at Washington State from 1987 to 1992, head coach at
Sacramento State from 1992 to 1997, interim head coach at
Arizona State in 1997-98 and an assistant at Oregon in 1998-99.
Newman did not play in the NBA, but had a brief NFL career with
the Seattle Seahawks and New York Jets as well as in the Canadian
Football League.
Gattison joined the Hornets' staff last season after playing for
the team for six years when it was in Charlotte. He was credited
with helping center Jamaal Magloire make the Eastern Conference
All-Star team for the first time this season.
Gattison was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Old Dominion,
before joining the Hornets as an assistant last summer.
He played nine years in the NBA, including a half-season with
Scott with the expansion Vancouver Grizzlies.
"Kenny is a mellow guy," Scott said, "but he's also a guy who
can be in your face and down your throat if he has to be. With
him and Don helping our big guys, I know that Big Cat (Magloire)
and P.J. (Brown) will become even better than they are."
. . . . . . .
Jimmy Smith can be reached at jsmith@timespicayune.com or (504)
826-3814. John Reid can be reached at jreid@timespicayune.com or
(504) 826-3405.
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