Firing Bzdelik May Have Been Only Option
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Denver Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe fired coach Jeff Bzdelik in the midst a lackluster season that started with so much promise.
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As audibles go, it was the only one the team could call. Snow was falling in the Boston area late Sunday night, the airports most likely would have to close, and the bus was the only plausible answer.
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Bruins coach Dave Lewis needs to play a confidence game with his demoralized, dispirited team. He's still looking for the right con man to pull it off.
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Phil Johnson was a candidate for the Nuggets&#39; coaching job in 2002, when it went to Jeff Bzdelik. Now that Bzdelik is gone, maybe the Nuggets are having second thoughts.
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Billy Donovan's NBA coaching career might end up being a whole lot shorter than his pro playing career -- and that didn't last very long.
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DENVER (Sports Network) - The Denver Nuggets have fired  head coach Jeff Bzdelik after two-plus seasons at the helm.  Denver has struggled to a 13-15 start and is in the midst of a  six-game slide.
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Maybe coach Lenny Wilkens should make copies of the game tape of the Knicks&#39; 99-81 loss last night at SBC Center and distribute them to his players as required viewing.
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As is invariably the case when an NBA head coach is fired, the media has lined up behind deposed Denver Coach Jeff Bzdelik, who, after months of speculation, was fired yesterday and replaced on an interim basis by assistant Michael Cooper, who joined
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Mercifully, it's over for Lenny Wilkens. It's never easy watching a coach on the verge (see: Rick Pitino, January 2001), and, in the end, Wilkens left. Yesterday he "resigned," which really means he jumped before he was pushed and still will be well-compensated to not coach the New York Knicks.
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Chris Simon might know by the end of the weekend just how costly revenge is. The Islanders forward was slated to have a disciplinary hearing Saturday at the NHL office in New York to discuss the two-handed swing of his hockey stick to the head of Rangers center Ryan Hollweg. Once the talking stops, Simon will likely be hit with a suspension that could end his season. For now his banishment is indefinite, the NHL said Friday.
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Add Peter Forsberg to the swelling list of superstars who deserted Philadelphia without a championship. Instead of winning a Stanley Cup, all the Flyers got out of their high-priced free agent was 100 games, no real solution to his lingering foot woes and no commitment to the future.
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In the end, Doc Rivers was hot about too much trash talking and Randy Wittman was hot about a blown call. The coaches -- former Atlanta Hawks backcourt partners in the 1980s -- each had a valid point. There was a lot of trash talking, which is what you had to expect given the arrivals of Ricky Davis, Mark Blount, ...
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It sure sounded like an insult. A dismissive dig, at least. The sort of thing Gilbert Arenas loves to hear so he can store it away for extra motivation.
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Denver fired coach Jeff Bzdelik on Tuesday, one day after the Nuggets lost their sixth straight game and failed again to live up to the high expectations that came with the offseason addition of All-Star forward Kenyon Martin.
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Blame whomever you want for the failure of the American Olympic basketball team. There is no shortage of accountable candidates. Want to blame the Team USA selection committee? ...
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Some coaches get so good at shading the truth they occasionally lose sight of it themselves. At some point, with some guys, it becomes an occupational hazard. Billy Donovan, to cite the latest example, talked so long and so longingly about coaching in the NBA someday that he stubbornly pursued the opportunity even after he knew deep down it wasn't what he wanted.
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Jeff Bzdelik, whose Nuggets team was off to a disappointing start this season, has been fired as head coach. The Nuggets have scheduled an 11:30 press conference to announce the decision.