sportingnews.com - 1/23/2009
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If a coach whose name no one can spell is fired by one of the league's worst teams in one of its smallest markets, does he make a sound on the way out?
That's the question basketball scribes across the country are asking their pets today, as the world tries to reel from the news that the ...
commercialappeal.com - 1/23/2009
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commercialappeal.com —
Iavaroni's not the only problem with this team.
It starts in the front office with the poor...
ownership. The crowds are getitng smaller and smaller and it's not got to do with the economy. It's got to do with lack of a marketing effort and commitment ...
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Source: Memphis Grizzlies fire coach Marc Iavaroni : ...
3shadesofblue.com - 1/20/2009
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3shadesofblue.com —
Well, the Grizzlies are nearing the point where
one of the all-time pejorative terms of sport, the...
dreaded "hapless", could be construed as accurate in describing the team. Tonight, the Cleveland Cavaliers came to town, and in the second half, they wiped the court with the Grizzlies.
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A Different Sort Of Meltdown
msn.foxsports.com - 1/23/2009
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msn.foxsports.com —
Rudy Gay has already played for three different
coaches in three seasons with the Grizzlies, and it's...
about to become four — and maybe five — after Memphis fired Marc Iavaroni.
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Grizzlies fire Iavaroni as coach
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