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Associated Press
Posted: 2 hours ago
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Larry Brown are among the who's-who of basketball who agreed Thursday to help choose the men's U.S. Olympic team.
USA Basketball, the sport's national governing body, wants to avoid the trouble that came in selecting the 2004 Olympic team, which finished third at the Athens Games. That was the first U.S. team comprised of NBA players not to win a gold medal.
"I've got a lot of things to make up for after this summer, so I'd like to help," Brown, who coached the U.S. team at the 2004 Games, said Thursday before his Detroit Pistons played Miami in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Last week, USA Basketball announced Jerry West, Ernie Grunfeld and a handful of NBA team presidents and general managers would be part of the advisory group.
Other former players on the list this week included David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson. Other coaches included Dean Smith, Bob Knight, John Thompson and Chuck Daly.
"I'm so grateful that these Olympians, both players and coaches, have chosen to assist, serve and engage in this process," said Phoenix Suns chairman Jerry Colangelo, who last month was appointed managing director of USA Basketball's senior men's program. Members of the advisory panel are expected to meet June 6-7 in Chicago. "I hope I'm not going to be there," said Brown, alluding to the fact that the NBA Finals start two days later in San Antonio.
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/3661684
Posted: 2 hours ago
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Larry Brown are among the who's-who of basketball who agreed Thursday to help choose the men's U.S. Olympic team.
USA Basketball, the sport's national governing body, wants to avoid the trouble that came in selecting the 2004 Olympic team, which finished third at the Athens Games. That was the first U.S. team comprised of NBA players not to win a gold medal.
"I've got a lot of things to make up for after this summer, so I'd like to help," Brown, who coached the U.S. team at the 2004 Games, said Thursday before his Detroit Pistons played Miami in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Last week, USA Basketball announced Jerry West, Ernie Grunfeld and a handful of NBA team presidents and general managers would be part of the advisory group.
Other former players on the list this week included David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson. Other coaches included Dean Smith, Bob Knight, John Thompson and Chuck Daly.
"I'm so grateful that these Olympians, both players and coaches, have chosen to assist, serve and engage in this process," said Phoenix Suns chairman Jerry Colangelo, who last month was appointed managing director of USA Basketball's senior men's program. Members of the advisory panel are expected to meet June 6-7 in Chicago. "I hope I'm not going to be there," said Brown, alluding to the fact that the NBA Finals start two days later in San Antonio.
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/3661684
