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Baseless Speculation: Coach K to the Nets

by Alex Fanaroff on February 12, 2010

The Interwebs are all abuzz with the latest rumor: The 4-48, on-pace-to-be-the-worst-team-ever New Jersey Nets are targeting Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to be their coach next season.
It seems that the first to jump on the bandwagon was The Bergen County Record’s Al Iannazzone. His story, headlined “Source: Mike Krzyzewski expected to be candidate to [...]

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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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Media, Men's Basketball

Coach K Talks Olympics, One-And-Done

by Will Flaherty on June 11, 2009

After informing reporters before Game 3 of the NBA Finals that he would defer any decision on coaching the 2012 US Men’s Olympic team until July, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski appeared on the Dan Patrick radio show Thursday morning, hitting on a wide range of topics from the NBA Finals to the NBA’s one-and-done rule.
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You may not have watched the game, but you’ve probably seen the photograph: Mike Krzyzewski flanked by Deron Williams and Jason Kidd, sporting a dozen gold medals-proof that a game played in the middle of the night really happened, that a supposedly undersized squad could run up a perfect record in Beijing, that a collection [...]

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Men's Basketball, Olympics

Coach K Puts Off Team USA Decision

by Ben Cohen on November 22, 2008

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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The New York Times’ coverage of these Olympics has been expansive and prolific, from their Olympics blog to their print edition and everything in between (I suppose that’s what happens when you have 32 reporters in Beijing). At Rings today, Team USA (and college basketball) beat writer Pete Thamel, following the lead of Yahoo! Sports [...]

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Team USA’s training camp in  Las Vegas at the end of June was supposed to decide who would be playing for Mike Krzyzewski in the Olympics in Beijing and who would be watching back in the States. Now, it will just be practice for the 12 Olympians.
USA Basketball Managing Director Jerry Colangelo said Tuesday that [...]

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