<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Monday, June 30 Gentry joins Hornets staff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- Alvin Gentry, a former head coach with three NBA teams, was named Monday as an assistant coach with the New Orleans Hornets. Alvin Gentry joins Tim Floyd on the New Orleans bench. Gentry joined Jan van Breda Kolff, Kenny Gattison and Jeff Bower on head coach Tim Floyd's staff. Gentry's most recent NBA job was as head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, who fired him last season after the Clippers started 19-39. Gentry also was head coach in Detroit, where he took over for Doug Collins during the 1997-98 season. The following season, shortened by a lockout, the Pistons were 29-21 under Gentry, finishing third in the Central Division before losing a first-round playoff series 3-2 to the Atlanta Hawks. Gentry was fired by the Pistons during the 1999-2000 season after a 28-30 start. In his first season as Clippers coach in 2000-01, Gentry guided them to a 31-51 record, which was a 16-win improvement from the previous season, the best turnaround in the NBA that year. Gentry's first head coaching job was an interim stint with the Miami Heat beginning midway through the 1994-95 season, which the Heat finished 15-21. Gentry, whose career head coaching record is 177-226, also spent 10 seasons as an NBA assistant with the San Antonio Spurs, the Clippers, the Heat and the Pistons. He was a standout player at Appalachian State but never played in the NBA, coming closest in an unsuccessful tryout with the Denver Nuggets in 1977. </div> Article from espn.com
that is a good move for him...mayb he can stay there for 2 years and then find a coachin spot sumwhere else..
