http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/Nate_McMillan_Named_Assistant_-159061-41.html

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"Nate McMillan has been named an assistant coach on the USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team program for 2006-2008, it was announced today by USA Basketball. McMillan, 41, joins Syracuse University head coach Jim Boeheim and Phoenix Suns head mentor Mike D’Antoni as assistant coaches for the national squad under Duke University head coach Mike Krzyzewski. "I was pleasantly surprised when I was asked to be a member of the coaching staff of the 2006-08 USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program," said McMillan. "I am so honored to have been asked, this is the greatest achievement of my basketball career. There is nothing more gratifying than representing your country doing something you love, especially when it’s developing young players." The USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team will compete in the 2006 FIBA World Championship (Aug. 19-Sept. 3 in Saitama, Japan); if necessary the 2007 FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament (dates and site TBD); and if the USA qualifies, the 2008 Summer Olympic Games (Aug. 8-24 in Beijing, China). McMillan was named the Trail Blazers’ head coach on July 7, 2005, after serving as head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics for five seasons and compiling a record of 212-183 (.537 winning percentage). In Portland, McMillan inherited the second-youngest team in the NBA and has his club off to a 5-7 start for the 2005-06 campaign. McMillan is the 12th head coach in Trail Blazers’ franchise history. Having spent his entire 12-year playing career with Seattle, McMillan was named the Sonics interim head coach on Nov. 27, 2000, after serving as assistant coach for the previous two seasons. As the 12th head coach in the Seattle’s history, and the youngest in the NBA at the time of his naming, he directed Seattle to a 38-29 record in the 2000-01 season. The Sonics removed the interim status from McMillan’s title on Jan. 5, 2001. In McMillan’s first full NBA campaign as a head coach, he guided Seattle to a 45-37 regular-season record and the seventh seed in the 2002 Western Conference Playoffs. In 2004-05, McMillan led the Sonics to a 52-30 record, the league’s sixth best record, and the Northwest Division Championship. He advanced his squad to the Western Conference semifinals before falling to eventual champion San Antonio in six games. As a player, McMillan was originally selected by the Sonics out of North Carolina State University with the 30th overall pick in the second round of the 1986 NBA Draft. Spending his entire professional playing career in Seattle, he became known affectionately in the Seattle community as "Mr. Sonic." McMillan retired from his NBA playing days after the 1997-98 season and left the hardwood as Seattle’s all-time leader in assists (4893) and steals (1544). He is now ranked second in both categories and ranks in the Sonics all-time top-10 in eight other statistical columns. One of the top defensive players during his NBA career, McMillan was named to the All-NBA Defensive Second Team in 1994 and 1995. He led the league in steals in 1993-94, averaging a career-high 2.96 per game. On Feb. 23, 1987, versus the Los Angeles Clippers, McMillan tied the single-game rookie assist record when he handed out a career-high 25 – a record he still shares with Ernie DiGregorio"

11/28/2005 3:50:39 PM

Nice. NC State represent! Now let's get his son to come here.

11/28/2005 3:52:45 PM

11/28/2005 3:59:16 PM

well now we won't have to hear everytime Vitale does a game that Coach K should hire Boeheim as an assistant

is this all of the coach's that will be hired? Krzyzewski and 3 assistants?

11/28/2005 4:06:28 PM

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"McMillan, 41, joins Syracuse University head coach Jim Boeheim and Phoenix Suns head mentor Mike D’Antoni as assistant coaches for the national squad under Duke University head coach Mike Krzyzewski."

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"well now we won't have to hear everytime Vitale does a game that Coach K should hire Boeheim as an assistant"

Instead we'll have to hear about how good a decision it was to hire Boeheim.

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"is this all of the coach's that will be hired? Krzyzewski and 3 assistants?"

Yeah, I believe so.


Three very good hires though. McMillan will help tame the egos of the NBA players. He can help keep them in check. D'Antoni provides international experience. Jimmy B. provides knowledge about playing against zone defenses, which international teams use frequently. I would say he also provides knowledge about using zone defenses, but I'd be shocked if Coach K used a zone.

11/28/2005 4:22:39 PM

His son is JACKED

Steroid police

11/28/2005 5:25:05 PM

more info about the junior mcmillan plz, havent heard anything about him yet

11/28/2005 8:03:34 PM

ever heard of a nifty little website

called google

11/29/2005 1:35:36 PM