Ettore Messina will reportedly be a Spurs assistant coach next season. (USATSI)
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UPDATE: Spurs general manager R.C. Buford denied that Ettore Messina was San Antonio-bound, via Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News:
“Is someone leaving our staff that I don't know about?” Buford said when asked about the Messina report. “We have not had one conversation with anyone about a coaching position for next season.”
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CSKA Moscow head coach Ettore Messina will join Gregg Popovich's staff with the San Antonio Spurs after this season ends, as first reported by Corriere di Bologna's Daniele Labanti and confirmed by Sportando.
Messina served as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers under Mike Brown in 2011-2012. The Atlanta Hawks reportedly considered him for their head-coaching vacancy last year before settling on Mike Budenholzer, who was Popovich's lead assistant at the time. The Spurs tried to hire Messina last year, according to ESPN's Marc Stein, who also reported that there was talk that new Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder would try to add Messina to his staff.
Having coached Real Madrid, Benetton Treviso, Virtus Bologna and Italy's national team, Messina has quite a resume. He's long been talked about as a potentially historic hire as an NBA head coach, and that could still happen in the future. He has a great reputation for his offensive mind -- in that respect, this will be a case of the rich getting richer in San Antonio.
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Report: Shelly Sterling heads to court seeking hearing to allow her to sell Clippers
Donald Sterling is going ahead with his $1 Billion lawsuit against the NBA and Adam Silver, a story that grabs headlines.
But if he doesn’t win in probate court against his wife Shelly Sterling that lawsuit is an exercise in futility.
Shelly Sterling is heading to probate court Wednesday to start the process to pre-empt any efforts by her husband Donald to re-instate himself in the family trust, which would allow him to block the sale of the team, reports the Associated Press.
Shelly Sterling will go to probate court Wednesday to seek an emergency order for a hearing so a judge can confirm her authority to sell the Los Angeles Clippers, according to an individual familiar with the matter….
The aim of Sterling’s court bid is to have a judge confirm provisions of the family trust to ensure the Ballmer sale moves forward without a hitch. Donald Sterling has the right to present his side at any hearing and appeal any decision.
His attorney Maxwell Blecher said a representative for Donald Sterling will likely be at any hearing but declined to comment further Tuesday. Sterling’s attorneys have called the idea that he is mentally incapacitated “absurd.”
Here’s the backstory: Shelly and Donald Sterling co-owned the Clippers through the Sterling Family Trust. However, after some neurological exams following his appearance on CNN the doctors concluded he could be ruled incapacitated under the terms of the Tryst. Shelly had Donald declared incapacitated, and that Machiavellian move gave Shelly full control of the trust and the team, and she used that control to set up the sale of the team to Steve Ballmer for a record $2 billion.
That sale with Ballmer would give Shelly Sterling “owner emeritus” status including floor seats to home games, parking spots, championship rings if the Clippers ever win one, and she would control a charity set up out of the proceeds of the sale of the team and loosely tied to the Clippers. Basically, she would get to still be around the team.
Donald Sterling still faces a lifetime ban from the league as well as $2.5 million fine.
Should Donald be successful with this process and he is able to reinstate his authority with the trust and to block this sale, the NBA will move back to its original plan and call for a vote of the owners to strip the Sterlings of their ownership. That’s what Sterling’s original lawsuit was aimed to block, but most legal experts think the league prevails because this is a franchise situation. Basically, the other owners have the right to vote Donald Sterling out of the club if he is bad for business (and sponsors have already pulled out from the team, they did so during the playoffs).
But it never gets to that if Shelly Sterling wins in probate court.
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