I noticed in the transactions section of the Midland paper that Corliss Williamson had signed on to be an assistant coach with the Kings. He was known to me as a good character guy in the Piston clubhouse, which ran somewhat counter to his Big Nasty nickname. A good guy to run heard over the emotional DeMarcus Cousins, right?
I called up the Cowbell Kingdom blog to see what they had to say about Big Nasty; he's been working up some coaching chops since leaving the NBA-
Williamson joins the organization after spending three years as the head coach of the University of Central Arkansas. Prior to his stint with the Bears, Williamson spent three seasons as both an assistant and later head coach of Arkansas Baptist College.
Not bad, especially working for a church school as a coach. I haven't seen where Cousins is on his portfolio directly, but I'd be surprised if he wasn't, as the one big man type on the coaching staff that I could recognize.
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Speaking of big man coaches, Hakeem Olajuwon had been becoming this generation's Pete Newell as the go-to guy for post play coaching, having any number of players from LeBron on down going to Houston during the off-season for some Dream weaving of their games.
However, that's going to now get privatized to the benefit of Superman 2.0-
[Amare] Stoudemire had planned to return to Texas to refine the post moves he learned last summer. That Olajuwon is about to be named to the Rockets staff as instructor for Dwight Howard and Omar Asik is not a factor in Stoudemire not attending.
According to a Rockets source, Houston is allowing Olajuwon to fulfill any of his prior commitments with opposing players this month before he exclusively works with Rockets big men. Hence, Stoudemire might never work with Olajuwon again.
He and a number of other big men from around the league.
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Cold War 2.0? Seeing Putin let Snowden have temporary asylum in Russia is not a great sign for US-Russian relations, but it does relieve the PR nightmare of having Snowden play Man Without a Country at the Moscow airport. This way, Putin looks somewhat decisive while encouraging Snowden to get out of Dodge in the long term.
One quick take here on Snowden; he's neither a whistle-blower or a traitor. The first is reserved for calling out clear wrong-doing (which the NSA was of iffy constitutionality but not clearly an evil act) and the second is somehow who supports a foe of the country (which Snowden didn't do; he merely opposed the NSA's omnivorous approach to intel gathering and told the public of it).
Interestingly, Wikileaks inside man Bradley Manning did not get convicted of treason, either. The stuff he made public might have helped some of the US' foes, but he seemed to be trying to be the "War on Terror" analogue of Daniel Ellsberg in leaking the Foggy Bottom cables. A military jury passed on convicting of aiding the enemy but did convict him of compromising security.
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