Dale Osbourne asst coach

[Eastoff]

http://www.iamatrailblazersfan.com/PressReleaseDisplay/tabid/297/itemId/3398/Default.aspx

PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Trail Blazers Head Coach Terry Stotts has added Dale Osbourne to the coaching staff, it was announced today by the team.

“I'm very excited about Dale joining our staff,” said Stotts. “His diverse coaching background and experience at the college and D-League level will be very valuable in the development of our younger players both on the court and off.”

Osbourne joins the Trail Blazers from the Tulsa 66ers, where he served as head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s NBA Development League affiliate. USA Basketball selected him as an assistant coach for the 2011 Pan American Games, where the team medaled for the first time since 1999.

Osbourne spent parts of three seasons as an assistant in Tulsa before being promoted to head coach in December 2011. He has also been an assistant with the D-League’s Utah Flash and Austin Toros, in addition to coaching tenures in the WNBA, CBA and USBL.

In seven years as an assistant at the University of South Alabama, Osbourne helped guide his alma mater to a pair of Sun Belt Conference titles.

Osbourne joins Kaleb Canales, Jay Triano, David Vanterpool and Kim Hughes on the Portland coaching staff.

The Trail Blazers tip-off training camp Tuesday, Oct. 2, in preparation of the NBA season opener vs. the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

 

[handiman]

Crap, I thought that was Super Dave at first. That would've been cool.

D-League coaching call-ups? Hmm. Could be a loooooong season.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

5 assistant coaches? 1 per starter?
anyone need a job?

 

[jlprk]

We should have hired this guy 40 years ago after CBS cancelled the #1 rated show in prime time, Smothers Brothers, for them making antiwar remarks on the air!

He was a regular with Pat Paulsen and Tea Time for Goldie (a young woman making marijuana jokes, called tea in Britain). He always appeared in California policeman uniform, helmet on, saying stiff things. He was funny!

That's them later, when he was trying to lose the antipolice image so he could make money in Hollywood.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

JJ Hickson ‏@Hickson21 Heard we have a new assistant coach. Dale Osbourne now with us. Heard great things about him.

 

[MARIS61]

Did they cancel his reality show?