<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Eric Musselman's favorite time of day is the hours he spends on a basketball court at Grizzlies practices and games. Then again, for the first-year Griz assistant, it has been this way almost all his life. As the son of the late Bill Musselman, a legendary coaching figure for almost 30 years at the University of Minnesota and in the NBA and ABA, Eric's cherished memories are shadowing his dad at practices, games and summer camps. "In junior high after school, I never wanted to go and play in the neighborhood," said Musselman, 40, fired as Golden State's head coach last year and who signed on in December with new Griz coach Mike Fratello's staff. "I wanted my mom to drive me to my dad's basketball practices. I was a ballboy one year in San Diego. I'd go on road trips sometimes. "When my dad coached the University of Minnesota, I was even a part of the team's pregame warmups doing a ballhandling routine. When I got up in the morning, I didn't watch cartoons. I was watching the same game film of my dad's teams that I watched the night before when I went to bed. I hung on my dad's every word. I was preparing to be a coach and I didn't even know it." </div> Source
