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Days after the New Jersey Nets fired their head coach and set a new NBA mark for futility, the speculation about who will replace GM Kiki Vandeweghe after the season has begun. According to SI.com’s Ian Thomsen, at least one NBA head coach thinks the Nets should start and end their search in Cameron Indoor [...]
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It’s official: Mike Krzyzewski is going for gold again.
As was reported two weeks ago, Krzyzewski has agreed to try to lead Team USA to another gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Turkey and the 2012 Olympics in London. He guided the United States to a gold in Beijing, and after Managing Director Jerry [...]
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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who led Team USA to a gold medal in Beijing last summer, will try to do the same in London in 2012, multiple media outlets are reporting.
Multiple unnamed sources told The Boston Globe and ESPN that USA Basketball will make the official announcement at a mini-camp later this month, [...]
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NEW YORK — Mike Krzyzewski may reprise his role as Team USA head coach, but he won’t make any sort of decision until after the season, he said Friday after Duke’s win in the 2K Sports Classic.
“It’s too early to make any commitments for players or coaches,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re all in season. That would [...]
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Back in August, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he would likely stay on as a consultant to USA Basketball after he led the Olympic team to a gold medal in Beijing.
According to recent reports, though, Krzyzewski’s involvement with the team could be much more direct. Yahoo! Sport’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that USA Basketball’s Jerry [...]
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Mike Krzyzewski did his part in hyping his forthcoming book when he led Team USA to a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics. Now the heavy lifting rests with his daughter and co-author, Jamie K. Spatola, for the book, entitled “The Gold Standard,” the head coach announced at his preseason press conference Monday.
Spatola, who majored [...]
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When he’s not going by King, LeBron James has been dubbed The Chosen One—or at least, he has since Sports Illustrated pegged him with that title when the King-in-waiting was only a high school junior in 2002. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski coached James this summer as he guided Team USA to a gold medal [...]
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Mike Krzyzewski and his daughter, Duke graduate Jamie Spatola, are co-writing a book about Krzyzewski’s experience with Team USA and how he led 12 of the world’s best basketball players to a gold medal, the Business Plus imprint of Grand Central Publishing announced in a release last week. Krzyzewski and Spatola, who co-wrote Beyond Basketball: [...]
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In an interview with The Chronicle today, sophomores Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler revealed that the entire team got together early Sunday morning to watch the USA take on Spain for the gold medal with a fully catered hot breakfast from Mad Hatters at 2:30 a.m. I’m pretty sure there isn’t another student group on [...]
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