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Hornets to add legend to staff
Reed, Lanier, Drexler front-office candidates
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
By Jimmy Smith and John Reid par Staff writers
The Hornets will complete the restructuring of their
basketball operations staff, perhaps by the end of the
week, by adding one of three legendary names to the
front office: Willis Reed, Bob Lanier or Clyde Drexler,
league sources said Tuesday.
Whomever is hired likely will become head of basketball
operations while Allan Bristow will be named general
manager, and assistant coach Jeff Bower will be named
assistant general manager.
The trio will form a committee that will oversee the
Hornets' personnel operations, currently managed by
executive vice president of basketball operations and
General Manager Bob Bass, sources said. Bass is retiring
June 30.
Hornets owner George Shinn has looked at a number of big
names to bring into the front office -- Drexler and Reed
were chosen two of the league's 50 Greatest Players in
1996. Reed, a native of Bernice, and Lanier are members
of the Basketball Hall of Fame, and Drexler will soon be
enshrined.
Of the three candidates, Reed has the most experience in
personnel matters. He was general manager/vice president
of basketball operations for the New Jersey Nets from
1988-1996 before becoming Nets senior vice president in
1996, a position he held during the coaching tenure of new
Hornets coach Byron Scott.
Reed was the executive who identified Hornets forward P.J.
Brown as a pro prospect when Brown came out of Louisiana
Tech, sending Brown to play in Greece for a year before
Brown joined the Nets in 1993.
Lanier has worked in various capacities for the NBA in recent
years and is special assistant to the commissioner and
chairman of the NBA Team-Up Program.
Drexler, who was born in New Orleans before moving to Texas
as a youngster, was head coach at the University of Houston
from 1998 to 2000, an assistant coach with the Denver Nuggets
in 2002 and special assistant to the general manager with the
Nuggets in 2001.
. . . . . . .
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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