Nate Mcmillan

[playmaker15]

Nate Mcmillan has just signed a 5 year deal to coach the Blazers according to Chad Ford. What a suprise! I thought that once ray signed in seattle that we would be the next one

 

[Miami Flash City]

wow this is strange, I thought like you that once ray was going to stay so would he. But then again this was chad ford reporting this lol

 

[playmaker15]

Yea but it just showed up on sportscenter. I think he want's to coach Telfair and Martell in the future. WHat a move. I also like this move because Nate will be able to relate to his players because he was once a player in the NBA.

 

[MiamiBalla12]

Yeah, this really weird you would think that nate would sign with the sonics after them getting ray.

 

[Smitty]

Here's the article.


<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Former Seattle SuperSonics head coach Nate McMillan has agreed to five-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, league sources told ESPN Insider Chad Ford.

McMillan was believed to be the Blazers' No. 1 choice all along, with the team also talking to former Blazers player and Bucks ex-coach Terry Porter and Phoenix assistant Marc Iavaroni.

The Blazers appeared close to offering the job to Iavaroni in late June, with the caveat that they first wanted a shot at luring McMillan away from the SuperSonics. The New York Times reported Sunday that Portland is offering McMillan an annual salary of $6 million.

McMillan had been given a deadline by the Sonics to decide his coaching future by the middle of this week.</div>

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[B.e.]

Interesting, hiring McMillan is definitely nice replacement for Coach Cheeks. Even though Ray Allen agreed to terms with the Sonics I'm not sure if he has actually signed a contract or what. But if he hasn?t and he isn?t happy with the Sonics not getting McMillan back, then that might persuade him to sign some where else.

 

[Flava23]

Great news. No more Terry Porter. This is gonna be one helluva team next yr

 

[playmaker15]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Flava23:</div><div class="quote_post">Great news. No more Terry Porter. This is gonna be one helluva team next yr</div>
not next year but in two or three years, all I have to say is WOW!

 

[Schaddy]

That's great news for Blazers fans, they've got a good guy in charge now, hopefully he'll clean things up in that locker room and lead the Blazers back to contention. But wow, what a surprise. Wow. The Sonics keep Allen, and McMillian still leaves? Wow. That's really all I can say. Wow. Well, congrats Blazer fans, you've taken another big step forward in the rebuilding process.

 

[durvasa]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting playmaker31:</div><div class="quote_post">Yea but it just showed up on sportscenter. I think he want's to coach Telfair and Martell in the future. WHat a move. I also like this move because Nate will be able to relate to his players because he was once a player in the NBA.</div>

So was Mo Cheeks, but that didn't help him any.

 

[playmaker15]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting durvasa:</div><div class="quote_post">So was Mo Cheeks, but that didn't help him any.</div>


True, but I think that this team is less phsyco than Mo's team. Randolph is maturing, no Stoudemire, Ruben Patterson may be gone, and the only headcase I see is D. Miles. It will be interesting to see how thi sone is going to play out though.

 

[Rod]

this is good news and all but I don't think that the current roster fits Nate's coaching( Hard workers work of stars)...if Pierce will come along Nate will make the Blazers real good but right now we have a 9 solid players in the team and Nate is not used to that kind of team he likes it when he have shooters like Allen,Lewis and Daniels - the Blazers are the exact oppisete - especially when NVE and Damon will be gone.