Sunday, April 5, 2015

Alabama reportedly hires Avery Johnson as head coach

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Former NBA coach Avery Johnson has verbally agreed to become the head coach at Alabama, sources told ESPN on Sunday.

The 50-year-old Johnson, an ESPN analyst, is from New Orleans and played in the NBA. He coached the Dallas Mavericks from 2005 to 2008 and the Brooklyn Nets from 2010 to 2012.


Johnson, who played 16 years in the league and was a point guard on the 1999 champion San Antonio Spurs, achieved his greatest coaching success with the Mavericks. Dallas won 60 games twice, and Johnson was the NBA coach of the year in 2006 after guiding the Mavs to the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Miami Heat in six games.


His son, Avery Johnson Jr., also plays in the SEC as a freshman point guard at Texas A&M.




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Johnson is a 50-year-old native of New Orleans, was a player at Southern University in Baton Rouge. was the NCAA’s leader in assists his junior and senior seasons at Southern, where he was the two-time SWAC Player of the Year. He made his NBA debut in 1988-89. Johnson played in the NBA from 1988 through 2004 with six different teams and won a NBA title with the San Antonio Spurs in 1999.

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