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Porter would have liked to start coaching in S.A.Milwaukee Bucks head coach Terry Porter would have prefered to start his coaching career as an assistant with the San Antonio Spurs but it didn't work out back in the summer of 2002. There was an opening on the Spurs' staff but coach Greg Popovich decided against it because Porter had just been a teammate of some of the Spurs' players and Popovich thought it wouldn't be such a good idea at the time. "We went back and forth on it," Popovich said. "One of the things I told Terry that factored into the equation was that it might be best for him to be elsewhere, so the people hearing his voice aren't the same people who had just been joking on the back of the bus with him. Secondly, it also would give him experience with another system." Porter eventually landed an assistant coaching job later that summer on Rick Adelman's staff in Sacramento. Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Sheed on the block?Although a tad tainted by his criminal conduct and ridiculous rhetoric, bidding for Rasheed Weed's services has sharply escalated within the last week. Resolved to rid themselves of the rising free agent, the Blazers gave permission to agent Bill Strickland to elicit trade propositions from teams his client would consider re-signing with come summer. So far, all three Texas teams and the Hawks - maybe even the Pistons - are involved in the auction. Rasheed's preference is the Rockets, according to Peter Vecsey; the obvious appeal being Yao Ming and Steve Francis, which is why they refuse to include either one in trade talk. Meaning, Houston may have to wait until the offseason to pursue Rasheed. Unlike the Mavericks, underlines a Strickland trustee, who might be inclined to give up Antawn Jamison and Eduardo Najera (but would rather include Tariq Abdul-Wahad), depending on the health of the Lakers' feared foursome and Mark Cuban's mood following a two-game skid. Long before the Spurs' manufactured their 12-game victory march, they offered Rasho Nesterovic, Malik Rose and Ron Mercer for Rasheed, the same source maintains. As for the Hawks, they're eager to move Theo Ratliff and Alan Henderson for Rasheed. The Blazers countered with a request for Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Stephen Jackson. Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Sheed on the block?Although a tad tainted by his criminal conduct and ridiculous rhetoric, bidding for Rasheed Weed's services has sharply escalated within the last week. Resolved to rid themselves of the rising free agent, the Blazers gave permission to agent Bill Strickland to elicit trade propositions from teams his client would consider re-signing with come summer. So far, all three Texas teams and the Hawks - maybe even the Pistons - are involved in the auction. Rasheed's preference is the Rockets, according to Peter Vecsey; the obvious appeal being Yao Ming and Steve Francis, which is why they refuse to include either one in trade talk. Meaning, Houston may have to wait until the offseason to pursue Rasheed. Unlike the Mavericks, underlines a Strickland trustee, who might be inclined to give up Antawn Jamison and Eduardo Najera (but would rather include Tariq Abdul-Wahad), depending on the health of the Lakers' feared foursome and Mark Cuban's mood following a two-game skid. Long before the Spurs' manufactured their 12-game victory march, they offered Rasho Nesterovic, Malik Rose and Ron Mercer for Rasheed, the same source maintains. As for the Hawks, they're eager to move Theo Ratliff and Alan Henderson for Rasheed. The Blazers countered with a request for Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Stephen Jackson. Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Spurs Dec 2003 Archive
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