<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Jazz have granted the New Jersey Nets permission to speak with Jazz assistant coach Gordie Chiesa, Jazz basketball operations senior vice president Kevin O'Connor said Wednesday. According to a report in Tuesday's New York Post, Chiesa "has emerged as a candidate to replace Nets assistant Brian Hill, who landed the (Orlando) Magic head coaching job. The Nets may also move everyone up, elevating Tom Barrise from fourth to third assistant." O'Connor said he wasn't sure when Chiesa would interview with the Nets, and Chiesa said through a Jazz spokeswoman that "there's nothing to talk about" at this time. Chiesa, a former college head coach at Providence and Manhattan, is a New Jersey native who has worked the past 16 seasons as a Jazz assistant.</div> <div align="center">Source </div>
Be a shame to lose Gordie, we'd be losing a bunch. But I gotta admitt he and Frank would be a perfect match. If it was a head coaching job that would be different. NJ will probably offer him more money altho I can't see him making a latteral move unless he just wants to return home to his roots.
Report calls Chiesa frontrunner in N.J. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">According to the Bergen (N.J.) Record, citing "several league sources," Jazz 16-year assistant coach Gordie Chiesa is the leading candidate to become the top assistant to New Jersey Nets coach Lawrence Frank and "likely will be offered the . . . job after he meets with Frank." The Jazz recently granted permission for the Nets to speak with Chiesa, a native of Union City, N.J., about the job vacated when Brian Hill left to become the Orlando Magic coach. Chiesa was to interview with Frank and the Nets this week at the Chicago pre-draft camp, which he and other Jazz officials are attending.</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
