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  NBA.com: Don Chaney Coach Info
Don won NBA Coach of the Year honors by leading the 1990-91 Rockets to a 52-30 mark, an 11-win improvement over the prior season.
Chaney, the Celtics' first-round pick (12th overall) in the 1968 NBA Draft, was a member of Boston's World Championship teams in 1969 and 1974, and gained an everlasting place in Celtic lore as the only man to play alongside both Bill Russell and Larry Bird.
Don and Jackie are also proud grandparents of Michael's eight-year old son, Jarron Chaney, a budding football star, and Donna's four-month old son Alexander.
www.nba.com /coachfile/don_chaney/index.html?nav=page   (786 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Pro Basketball - Knicks give Chaney an extension - Wednesday March 06, 2002 12:37 AM
Chaney said a news conference would be held before the Knicks played the Milwaukee Bucks.
Hours after Don Chaney's contract extension was announced, Kurt Thomas matched a career high with 29 points and grabbed a career-best 20 rebounds as the New York Knicks downed the Milwaukee Bucks 102-89 on Tuesday.
The 54-year-old Chaney was the NBA's Coach of the Year in 1990-91 with the Houston Rockets and is in his 22nd season as an assistant or head coach.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/news/2002/03/05/knicks_chaney_ap   (759 words)

  
 Don Chaney - Lakers Players Don Chaney
Donald R. Chaney (born March 22, 1946 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former pro basketball player and coach.
Chaney played baskeball in college for the University of Houston and played all 40 minutes of the famed "Game of the Century" at the Astrodome.
Chaney is the only Boston Celtic member who has played with both Bill Russell (1956–1969) and Larry Bird (1979–1992).
www.lakersplayers.org /don-chaney.php   (193 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Unhappy Chaney coaches while Thomas does TV
Chaney said it was the first time in his career – as a player or a coach – he's been the object of fans' disdain.
Chaney has compiled a record of 72-112 since taking over for Jeff Van Gundy early in the 2001-02 season, and the fans seem to be viewing him as more of a link to the team's recent depressing past than a bridge to the Thomas-driven future.
Chaney said the "Fire Chaney" chant was most affecting his wife of 37 years, Jackie, but it bothered him, too.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20040113-1706-bkn-knicks-chaney.html   (591 words)

  
 Don Chaney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald R. Chaney (born March 22, 1946 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former pro basketball player and coach.
In 2001 he took over as headcoach of the New York Knicks, but has been fired in 2004.
Chaney is the only the only Boston Celtic who has played with both Bill Russell and Larry Bird.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Chaney   (92 words)

  
 NYKbasketball.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Don Chaney has been at the helm through all the controversy and losses, but he’s doing a pretty good job with this group of old, overpaid, underachieving, injury plagued veterans.
Don Chaney’s high tempo style of play and attitude are exactly what this team needs right now.
On the offensive side of the ball, Don Chaney is doing an excellent job with the guys he has.
www.allsports.com /nba/knicks/111402.html   (701 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NBA - Last-place Knicks extend Chaney's contract
The decision came as a major surprise, as it was widely assumed that Chaney was a lame duck who would be dismissed at the end of the season.
Chaney said his extension was for one season.
And although Dolan was stern-faced as he walked into Chaney's office, the purpose of his visit was to inform Chaney of the decision that Layden had made a few days earlier -- that he would be retained as head coach and will have input as the team moves ahead.
espn.go.com /nba/news/2002/0305/1345812.html   (793 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Chaney to stay on with Knicks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chaney, who owns an unimpressive 266-382 NBA coaching record, guided the Knicks to a 101-99 victory over the Indiana Pacers Saturday after Van Gundy resigned earlier in the day.
Chaney, 55, is in his seventh season on the Knicks' coaching staff.
As a player, Chaney was a first-round pick of the Boston Celtics in 1968 and a member of Boston's championship teams in 1969 and 1974.
www.usatoday.com /sports/nba/knicks/2001-12-10-chaney.htm   (341 words)

  
 Archives: Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
PHILADELPHIA -- Temple coach John Chaney suspended himself Wednesday for one game and apologized for putting a player in against Saint Joseph's a day earlier for the sole purpose of rough play and quick fouls.
Chaney said he was not surprised by reaction to Tuesday's home game.
Chaney, called for a technical in the second half after berating the officials, said he never wanted his players to hurt anyone.
www.lebanondailyrecord.com /articles/2005/02/24/sports/news04.txt   (539 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Pro Basketball - Hornets hand Knicks worst home loss ever - Tuesday January 22, 2002 12:16 AM
According to a report in The New York Times, Don Chaney, who previously coached the Clippers, Rockets and Pistons, is feeling more pressure now than at any other time in his head-coaching career.
Chaney also knows he may soon be replaced, most likely by the assistant coach Tom Thibodeau.
If Chaney is fired, it will mark the first time in franchise history that the Knicks have had three head coaches in one season.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/news/2002/01/21/hornets_knicks_ap   (711 words)

  
 News&features - August 11, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chaney’s court case may help redefine how the bulk of California’s ticky-tacky suburbs are run.
Take Chaney, a 75-year-old retiree, and his neighbor Ken Beer, 72, who have been trying for years--to little avail--to get their homeowners board to show them financial documents such as accounting books, canceled checks and purchase orders.
Chaney believes someone is pocketing money and that the board is looking the other way.
www.newsreview.com /issues/Sacto/2005-08-11/news.asp   (1630 words)

  
 UltimateKnicks.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Assistant Don Chaney was to coach New York against the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, but the team hadn’t chosen a head or interim coach.
Don Chaney met with New York Knicks president Scott Layden on Sunday to work on details of an agreement that would keep Chaney coaching the team at least for the rest of the season.
Don Chaney rehashed his prior head-coaching career and it hasn't been pretty, despite winning the 1990-91 Coach of the Year with the Rockets.
www.ultimateknicks.com /archive/20011210GP.asp   (1605 words)

  
 Teflon Don   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chaney is the only Celtic to ever play with both Russ and Larry Legend.
Chaney is coach of the Houston Rockets, and everything goes right.
The defensive-minded Chaney watches as Hakeem, Kenny Smith, Vernon Maxwell and Otis Thorpe all average 17-plus, and the Rockets finish at 52-30, 11 games better than the year before.
www.slamonline.com /magazine/hype/don_chaney   (227 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NBA - Chaney has the job, but Dolan has the final say
NEW YORK -- After Jeff Van Gundy walked out of New York and Don Chaney was installed as the Knicks' head coach -- for this season at least -- the names you heard for the head coaching position for next season were Mike Fratello and Mike Dunleavy.
Chaney knew what Dolan is looking for from this team long before he met with him before Saturday's win against Indiana, when he was told the job was his.
Chaney favors pushing the ball, although he's also been around long enough to realize that no one ever ran to a world championship.
espn.go.com /nba/columns/lawrence/1293415.html   (1134 words)

  
 SOHH.com Global Forum - Don Chaney always getting a bad rap...
Don Chaney has never had a real chance to coach teams...I highly doubt there are too many coaches that could have did much better than Don Chaney if they would have had to work with the same personel, and same boneheaded management.
considering you and chaneys wife are the only people that feel this way, im just going to assume you are chaney himself, and not taunt you.
He had a idiot GM bringing in horrible players...In his tenure with the Knicks he had to deal with having 2 shooting guards on the floor, no real true starter of a point guard, no dominant down low player...He wasn't the coach/gm, he was just the coach.
forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=423927   (1510 words)

  
 Star Wars: Ad Creep and Sith Speak
Chaney is the movies editor and DVD columnist for washingtonpost.com and a frequent contributor to the print edition of The Post.
Jen Chaney: Are you chewing on it or Chewie-ing on it?
Jen Chaney: I wasn't a huge fan of "Closer," but I thought Portman was terrific in "Garden State." I think she deserved an Oscar nod for that instead of the other movie.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/05/18/DI2005051801783.html   (4932 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Football / Knicks coach on defensive about his job   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Several newspapers quoted anonymous sources saying Chaney's job is in jeopardy with the Knicks (9-18) sitting in fifth place in the woeful Atlantic Division.
Chaney has compiled a 66-106 record with New York, the fourth NBA team he has coached.
Chaney also has made constant changes to his point guard rotation, replacing Charlie Ward with Howard Eisley as the starter but then using either of the two -- or third-stringer Frank Williams -- during fourth quarters.
www.boston.com /sports/football/articles/2003/12/20/knicks_coach_on_defensive_about_his_job?mode=PF   (620 words)

  
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Chaney's position is that his other interests like sky diving enhances his performance and make him better able to deal with the pressures of Big League coaching.
Chaney can point to the fact he was Coach of the Year back in 1990-91 coaching the Houston Rockets.
Whatever Chaney is or isn't doing most of the players like his style, and management seems happy enough with his effort despite the below.500 record.
www.blackathlete.com /Blackbox/blackbox022603.html   (396 words)

  
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Chaney and Keleher say they can offer a complete marketing package that extends beyond the usual coverage in local media outlets.
After listening to Chaney and Keleher, Martin said he realized two things: it might be time to step up his marketing efforts, and he wasn't necessarily the guy to do it.
Chaney is a native of Hood River, Ore. He lived in the Roaring Fork Valley in the mid-1990s, then spent six years working at stations in the Denver area, including KBCO.
www.tahoe.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=AA&Date=20030206&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=302050001&Ref=AR&AvisData=AT   (852 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Paper reporting Chaney will get contract extension
NEW YORK -- Despite currently riding a 3-11 slide, Don Chaney will be given a contract to coach the New York Knicks next season, according to reports in The New York Times and New York Daily News.
Chaney, 55, has been the head coach of the Knicks on an interim basis since Jeff Van Gundy surprisingly stepped down Dec. 8.
Chaney has a 11-27 record with the team that is now 21-36 for the season.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1345596&type=news   (404 words)

  
 Bendell Karate > History
With the volunteer assistance of their father, Don, a master instructor, Brent and Josh kept growing, opening a branch of Bendell Karate in fast-growing Pueblo West, thirty some miles to the east in 1996.
Master (Don) Bendell took over in October, 2002, and now is master of both schools and teaches some classes at each, as well as overseeing the curriculum and policy.
Don Bendell started studying first judo in 1966, then jujitsu and karate in 1967, and later studied tae kwon do, judo, and jujitsu.
www.bendellkarate.com /History.htm   (1040 words)

  
 New York Knicks Extend Contract of Head Coach Don Chaney
“Don has shown exemplary on and off-court leadership and we are very pleased to give him this opportunity,” Layden said.
“We have great confidence that Don is the right person to lead the Knicks,” said James L. Dolan, chairman of Madison Square Garden and president and CEO of Cablevision Systems Corporation.
Chaney was a first round pick of the Celtics out of the University of Houston in 1968, and spent nine of his 12 seasons in Boston.
www.nba.com /knicks/news/chaney_extension.html   (511 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Sports - Knicks extend thanks to Don   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The average NBA salary for a head coach is close to $4 million, so the Knicks accomplished two things in keeping the 56-year-old Chaney: They don't have to pay $5 million a season for a high-profile coach and they've put to rest any notion of a midseason coaching change if and when the Knicks struggle.
Chaney is one of the more well-liked coaches in basketball and his players praised the club's decision to re-sign him.
Last year, the Knicks announced Chaney's extension the day after Dolan met with his head coach and while GM Scott Layden was on a scouting trip in China.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/story/31344p-29741c.html   (704 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Sports - Chaney: Don't give up on me, Isiah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chaney's job is in jeopardy again after Thursday's embarrassing 111-79 loss to the Houston Rockets.
Chaney still has the unwavering support of Garden chairman James Dolan, who has rewarded the coach with three contract extensions since Chaney replaced Jeff Van Gundy 25 months ago.
Chaney, however, continues to defy the odds despite compiling a 71-111 record.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/story/153534p-135131c.html   (774 words)

  
 IGN Boards - Don Chaney should be suspended for the rest of the season and have school put on probation.
IGN Boards - Don Chaney should be suspended for the rest of the season and have school put on probation.
Topic: Don Chaney should be suspended for the rest of the season and have school put on probation.
Date Posted: 2/25 10:38pm Subject: RE: Don Chaney should be suspended for the rest of the season and have school put on probation.
boards.ign.com /College_Sports/b5238/80219402/p2   (1791 words)

  
 MSGNetwork.com
But Don Chaney was calling them a very good young team after the game and that was the happiest thing he said all day long.
Chaney chastised reporters later that day, insisting that he had switched from zone to man-to-man because the zone defense wasn’t working and that he couldn’t use Mutombo against the smaller, faster Bucks.
Chaney, in the morning, moved from chastise to tirade by angrily ripping into the media.
www.msgnetwork.com /content_news.jsp?articleID=v0000msgn2003-11-11T03-55-27-6-76&newsgroup=columnist.article&sports=basketball&team=Knicks&league=nba   (997 words)

  
 Chaney, Knicks hit rock bottom — we think
This is what Don Chaney gets after all those nice words welcoming him as coach.
Chaney will take the fall for this and even he must know it by now.
Chaney chuckled knowingly about that when he took over the Knicks' head-coaching gig.
www.recordonline.com /archive/2002/01/22/dbcol22a.htm   (664 words)

  
 Los Angeles Clippers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The team's first head coach was Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes, the franchise's first star players were Bob Kauffman and Don May, who were acquired in the expansion draft.
The Clippers were completely overshadowed by their cross-town counterparts, who were in the midst of a championship run with future Hall of Famers, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy.
The Clippers, under head coach Jim Lynam (and later Don Chaney) and new acquistions Marques Johnson, Junior Bridgeman, and Harvey Catchings (all acquired via trade from the Milwaukee Bucks), finished with a disappointing 31-51 record in the first season in the City of Angels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers   (2611 words)

  
 Chron.com | NBA Notebook: Chaney deserved better from Thomas
But in his treatment of Don Chaney, Thomas went beyond callous and calculating, beyond coldhearted in his treatment of a coach he called "a great man." Thomas was cruel.
The heat on Chaney escalated after Thomas arrived with speculation that Thomas still wanted to coach and to the accompaniment of the ugly "Fire Chaney" chants.
Don Nelson announced he was still Mavericks coach, which in itself seemed to indicate how far from expectations the Mavericks have been.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/2359082   (3194 words)

  
 AsianFanatics Forum -> Knicks:chaney, Malone, Kruger Fired; Wilkens Hired
Chaney and assistants Brendan Malone and Lon Kruger received the news after arriving at Madison Square Garden late in the afternoon.
Chaney was 72-112 in two-plus seasons in New York and 337-494 in 12 seasons overall as an NBA head coach.
Chaney put the team through its morning shootaround after reading in the Daily News that he would be replaced by Fratello, who later released a statement saying he had no agreement "in place." Thomas said no offer was ever made to Fratello.
asianfanatics.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=765   (1924 words)

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