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	Scott Layden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Layden was runnerup (to the Lakers' Jerry West) for The Sporting News NBA Executive of the Year award in 1994-95, a season in which the Jazz went 60-22.
		Layden played collegiate basketball for St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where he was a four-year letterman and captained the team in his senior year of 1979-80.
		He is the son of Frank Layden, one of the game's most colorful figures whose eight-year career as Jazz coach was highlighted with the 1983-84 NBA Coach of the Year award.
	www.thegarden.com /inandaroundgarden_ScottLayden.html (471 words)

	PurpleEagles.com - Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Returning with Layden, ’55, are NU Theatre alumni John Overbeck, ’75; Patrick McAllister, ’76; Rich Schneider, ’66; and Ray Tamborini, ’76.
		An alumnus and former basketball player at Niagara University, Layden coached the NU Purple Eagles from 1968 to 1976, when he joined the professional basketball ranks as an assistant coach of the Atlanta Hawks.
		At home on the stage, Layden returned to his alma mater in 2001 with his wife, Barbara, to star in NU Theatre’s readers’ theater production of “Love Letters.” Married for 48 years, the Laydens have three children and seven grandchildren.
	www.purpleeagles.com /release.asp?RELEASE_ID=1910 (496 words)

	ChannelCincinnati.com - NBA - Utah Jazz - Music To His Ears: Jazz And Layden Reunite
		Layden's last job in the NBA was as President and GM of the New York Knicks, but he was fired from that post during the 2003-04 season after spending four- plus years with the team.
		Layden was also responsible for pulling a trade-deadline deal that brought in sharpshooter Jeff Hornacek, who teamed up brilliantly with Stockton and Malone, helping the franchise reach the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals -- both losses to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls.
		Layden, who is the son of former Utah head coach Frank Layden, has not been on the bench in 15 years.
	www.channelcincinnati.com /nba112/4689508/detail.html (356 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Jazz to hire former Knicks president as assistant coach
		Layden, the former president of the New York Knicks and an assistant coach and administrator with Utah, is coming back to the Jazz as an assistant on coach Jerry Sloan's staff, the team announced Wednesday.
		Layden and Sloan were assistants with the Jazz under former coach and general manager Frank Layden, Scott's father.
		Layden spent 18 years with the Jazz as an administrative assistant, scout, assistant coach, director of player personnel and vice president of basketball operations.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20050706-1309-bkn-jazz-layden.html (470 words)

	CNN/SI - WNBA Basketball - Layden gets back into life with Starzz - Saturday August 01, 1998 07:46 PM
		Layden was named the Jazz's general manager in 1979, a month after the team announced plans to move from New Orleans to Salt Lake City.
		Layden has cited a number of reasons for leaving coaching -- his health, the travel, the pressure of big-time sports, the mental frustration caused by certain referees who he said had grudges against him -- but they all came down to this: He didn't like the man coaching had made him.
		As president of the Jazz, Layden became an official representative of the team and an unofficial ambassador for the state of Utah.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/wnba/news/1998/08/01/layden_starzz (1208 words)

	RealGM Wiretap: Your source for NBA News
		Layden's last major move was the four-team deal that sent Latrell Sprewell to Minnesota and brought Keith Van Horn to New York.
		Layden, a native New Yorker and the son of former Jazz coach Frank Layden, spent 18 seasons with Utah before being brought to New York by former Utah executive Dave Checketts.
		Layden's three picks from last June's draft _ Michael Sweetney, Maciej Lampe and Slavko Vranes _ are all on the injured list.
	www.realgm.com /src_ap.php?articleid=688 (827 words)

	Frank Layden - Nationwide Speakers Bureau
		Frank returned to his alma mater in 1968 as athletic director and head coach.
		Frank moved to the NBA in the late 1970s as an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks.
		Frank retired from coaching in 1988, but was always a coach at heart, he returned to the bench 10 years later to lead the Utah Starzz of the WNBA.
	www.nationwidespeakers.com /speakers/frank_layden.html (390 words)

	New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Frank Layden, currently serves as a basketball consultant for the New York Knicks, a post he has held since February, 2000.
		Layden, who spent two years as the head coach at Dowling College, was later honored by the institution with an honorary doctorate in humanities in 2000.
		In 2000, Layden was honored by Dowling college with an honorary doctorate in humanities and also holds honorary degrees from Westminster College in Salt Lake City and Niagra University.
	www.nycac.net /layden.html (342 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Layden keeps current on Jazz happenings
		Frank Layden may be a scout for the New York Knicks.
		The Laydens went on a vacation cruise to Alaska and are planning another to the Panama Canal.
		Layden's speaking engagement in Illinois last week was as a pinch-hitter for Majerus, whose Utes were playing in the preseason NIT, precluding him from fulfilling the commitment at a small Catholic school.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,540034661,00.html (1005 words)

	deseretnews.com \| It's been fun, Frank Layden
		Layden hired himself as head coach in 1981, taking over a team that had never had a winning season (or anything close to one) in seven years of existence.
		The problem was that Layden's clowning persona tended to obscure his talents as a fine basketball coach who possessed a keen eye for talent and a knack for working with and motivating players.
		Layden's real secret to survival and personal success was that he didn't take basketball too seriously, and when he did he quit coaching — twice.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,145015117,00.html (1984 words)

	NBA-Knicks-Thomas, 3rd Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Layden's last major move was the four-team trade that sent Sprewell to Minnesota and brought Van Horn to New York.
		At the behest of Checketts, Layden traded franchise stalwart Patrick Ewing to Seattle in the summer of 2000, a move that contributed to the current salary cap predicament.
		Layden, who did not return a phone message, built his reputation in Utah through his ability to pluck obscure but productive players with low draft picks.
	www.cp.org /premium/online/commercial/nba/031222/v122254A.html (812 words)

	Utah Jazz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 1980-1981 season, Frank Layden became the head coach, and in 1982, the Jazz selected big man Mark Eaton in the fourth round of the draft.
		Despite the regular season successes, however, the Jazz were never able to advance past the second round of the NBA playoffs during the 1980s.
		During the 1988-1989 season, Frank Layden stepped down as head coach to become president of the Utah Jazz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utah_Jazz (1761 words)

	ESPN.com: NBA - With Knicks, Layden not talking a great game
		Besides failing to adequately replace Ewing and Johnson, Layden was responsible for advising Dolan to re-sign Allan Houston last summer to a $100 million deal.
		Layden is responsible for the acquisition of two role players with large contracts, Shandon Anderson and Howard Eisley, who came to New York in the Glen Rice trade and did nothing in their first season.
		But Layden is convinced they can help turn the team around, just as he believes that Don Chaney is the right coach for this team.
	espn.go.com /nba/columns/lawrence_mitch/1412899.html (1112 words)

	Pocono Record Online: Jazz's Layden takes Knicks' GM post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Layden met last weekend with Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts about their general manager's job, which has been vacant since Ernie Grunfeld was reassigned in April.
		Layden met Monday with owner Larry Miller and other Jazz officials, who were unable to convince him to stay.
		Layden, son of former Jazz coach Frank Layden, joined the Jazz in 1981 as assistant coach.
	www.poconorecord.com /1999/sports/national/bkg80284.htm (503 words)

	PRO BASKETBALL NOTE
		Frank Layden, 68, will be involved in pre-draft scouting and assisting the Knicks' NBA draft meetings.
		Frank Layden becomes the third long-time member of the Jazz to join the Knicks.
		"Frank Layden was a great coach who brings success, experience and wisdom to our ballclub," Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy said.
	www.canoe.ca /StatsBKP/BC-BKP-LGNS-NYKFLAYDEN-R.html (211 words)

	CNN/SI - WNBA Basketball - Layden resigns as Starzz head coach - Monday June 21, 1999 04:38 PM
		Layden, the 67-year-old president and former coach and general manager of the Utah Jazz, quit less than a year after taking the job.
		Layden had never coached women's basketball when he took over the team July 27, 1998, replacing Denise Taylor.
		Layden came to Utah as the general manager of the Jazz in 1979, a month after the franchise announced plans to relocate from New Orleans.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/wnba/news/1999/06/21/starzz_layden (485 words)

	The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk - Why do Jazz blow? Jerry? Draft Lottery Moves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scott Layden was watching tape of Kentucky playing(remember 5 or 6 wildcats got drafted the year after) and he wondered who the maniac was who played great defense on Toine Walker, Walter McCarthy and even Tony Delk.
		Layden used the 54th second round pick on Shandon Anderson of the University of Georgia.
		Three years before the 1999 draft(and after the Layden's watched Drei play in Russia) the Layden's traded Felton Spencer to Orlando for Kenny Gattison and a Orlando 1st round draft choice which turned out to be Kirilenko.
	extras.sltrib.com /tribtalk/showthread.php?t=177&page=2 (1143 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Knicks fire Scott Layden, hire Isiah Thomas
		Scott Layden, center, was fired Monday as president of the New York Knicks and Isiah Thomas was hired to replace him, a source told The Associated Press.
		NEW YORK – Scott Layden was fired Monday as president of the New York Knicks and Isiah Thomas was hired to replace him, a source told The Associated Press.
		Layden's three picks from last June's draft – Michael Sweetney, Maciej Lampe and Slavko Vranes – are all on the injured list.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20031222-1049-bkn-knicks-laydenfired.html (868 words)

	Frank Layden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although Layden gave up coaching in 1988, he remained as GM through 1998, and the Jazz has remained in the upper echelon of the NBA.
		Layden the GM has been as successful as Layden the coach, as his astute draft selections (most notably, little-known mid-rounders Karl Malone and John Stockton) has helped the team average 50 wins per season since 1988 and reach the NBA finals twice.
		Layden has always been as sought-after for the banquet circuit for the antidote for a team in distress; in either role, he has never disappointed.
	www.buffalosportshallfame.com /Class_of_2000/Frank_Layden/frank_layden.html (420 words)

	News from around the NBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As coach and executive for 20 years, wisecracking Frank Layden has been synonymous with the Utah Jazz, which he transformed into an NBA powerhouse.
		And Layden's son, Scott Layden, left Aug. 10 after 18 years with the Jazz to become general manager of the New York Knicks.
		Frank Layden joined the Jazz as general manager in 1979 with a promise to lead the team's move to Utah from New Orleans.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /basketball/nban291.shtml (763 words)

	Layden said to meet with Knicks' brass
		Salt Lake City – Scott Layden, vice president of basketball operations for the Utah Jazz, met with Knicks officials over the weekend to discuss taking a similar position with the team, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
		Layden, son of former Jazz coach Frank Layden, helped shape the team over the past 18 years, calling most of the major personnel shots for 11 years.
		Dave Checketts, the Knicks president and chief operating officer, was president of the Jazz in the 1980s and maintains close ties to Utah.
	www.th-record.com /1999/08/10/layden.htm (209 words)

	Sports: Layden brings new attitude
		he last time Frank Layden coached a basketball team, he weighed more than 350 pounds, Pat Riley was the coach of the Lakers and Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson hadn't won an NBA title.
		Ten years later and 180 pounds lighter, the 66-year-old Layden is back in the head-coach's chair -- this time in a new league with a new attitude.
		Today, Layden said he is healthy and feels up to the challenge of coaching.
	www.sptimes.com /Sports/80198/Layden_brings_new_att.html (604 words)

	Names In The Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Layden instead will play the character of "The Coach" this week at Niagara University in the school's production of Jason Miller's play, "That Championship Season." It's a reprisal of the role he first played in the 1970s when he was coaching the Purple Eagles.
		Layden will be reunited with the original cast that first put on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 30 years ago.
		For Layden, this is an opportunity to pay tribute to the school he attended and where he later became one of its most successful coaches, leading the Purple Eagles to their first and only NCAA tournament berth in 1970.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/15/sports0353EDT0184.DTL (609 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Basketball / Thomas will try to fix the Knicks
		NEW YORK -- In a change of leadership that almost no one at Madison Square Garden saw coming, Scott Layden was fired yesterday as president of the New York Knicks and was replaced by Isiah Thomas.
		The move comes after New York missed the playoffs the past two seasons with a roster largely assembled by Layden.
		Instead, the man forced out was Layden, who joined the Knicks in the summer of 1999 after they were coming off an appearance in the NBA Finals.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/articles/2003/12/23/thomas_will_try_to_fix_the_knicks (364 words)

	Sporting News, The: Back to the basics - basketball coaches Frank Layden and Rudy Tomjanovich lead the Utah Starzz and ...
		And former Jazz coach Frank Layden, after being away from the game for almost a decade, has returned to a league of $30,000 ballplayers and eager basketball ambassadors.
		Meanwhile, the WNBA's Utah Starzz embraced the grandfatherly Layden when the 66-year-old suddenly found himself surrounded by players of the opposite sex and, for the most part, the opposite attitude.
		Layden said he'd have to "adjust" to today's NBA player, which is a commentary in itself.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n32_v222/ai_21028245 (883 words)

	JAZZ: All Time History
		One of the most important of those blocks was Frank Layden, a portly, colorful individual who would mold the character and quality of the Jazz for the next decade.
		Layden, who had served the previous three seasons as an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks, was asked by Jazz ownership to become the team's first general manager in Utah.
		In addition, Frank Layden was named NBA Coach of the Year.
	www.nba.com /jazz/history/00400490.html (10394 words)

	New York Knicks, National Basketball Association, Indiana Pacers - CBS SportsLine.com
		NEW YORK -- In a change of leadership that almost no one at Madison Square Garden saw coming, Scott Layden was fired Monday as president of the New York Knicks and was replaced by Isiah Thomas.
		He was introduced at a news conference in the same Garden restaurant where Layden made his first public appearance as the Knicks' general manager 4½ years ago.
		Before the Van Horn trade, Layden's biggest move came on draft night in 2002 when he sent Marcus Camby, Mark Jackson and the Knicks' lottery pick -- which turned into Brazilian center Nene -- to Denver for Antonio McDyess.
	cbs.sportsline.com /nba/story/6946487 (908 words)

	USATODAY.com - Jazz hire ex-Knicks president Layden as assistant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Layden was traveling abroad, so the deal will not be completed until later in the week.
		The 46-year-old Layden will officially start Sunday when the team meets for rookie camp prior to the start of the Reebok Rocky Mountain Revue on July 15.
		Layden and Sloan spent six seasons together as assistants when Scott's father Frank Layden coached the Jazz.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/jazz/2005-07-06-layden-assistant_x.htm (280 words)

	JazzFanz.com - Story
		Frank Layden is ready to play the coach again.
		No, the 1984 NBA Coach of the Year isn't coming out of retirement.
		Layden instead will play the character of "The Coach" this week at Niagara University in the school's production of Jason Miller's play "That Championship Season." It's a reprisal of the role he first played on court in the 1970s when he was coaching the Purple Eagles.
	www.jazzfanz.com /story.php?id=1451 (91 words)

	Deseret News (Salt Lake City): 25 years later the Jazz are going strong
		Maravich and 6-foot-8 center James Hardy moved to Utah with the franchise, which signed Frank Layden as general manager in May 1979 and Tom Nissalke as coach in June 1979.
		Battistone thanks Layden for generating interest with tireless work in the public and legendary humor.
		-- May 9, 1979 -- Frank Layden hired as general manager of the Jazz team that is planning to move from New Orleans to Utah.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_200411/ai_n11489078 (1509 words)

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