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  John Paxson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Paxson (born September 29, 1960 in Dayton, Ohio) is a retired basketball player.
Paxson was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 19th overall pick of the 1983 NBA Draft.
Paxson proved to be a valuable 3-point marksman and clutch shooter in the Bulls' first three championships.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Paxson   (986 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bulls hire Paxson to replace Krause as GM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Paxson was to be officially introduced as Chicago's executive vice president of basketball operations at a news conference Monday.
Paxson immediately emerged as the front-runner for the job after Krause quit and was the only person known to have had a formal interview with team chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.
Paxson spent nine of his 11 NBA seasons with the Bulls, and was an integral part of the first three championship teams.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/bulls/2003-04-14-paxson-gm_x.htm   (477 words)

  
 SI.com - 2005 Sportsman of the Year - My Sportsman Choice: John Paxson - Tuesday November 22, 2005 12:16PM
GM John Paxson has helped erase an atmosphere of distrust that surrounded the Bulls front office for years.
Paxson didn't draft him (Krause did) and could have easily done away with the rookie guard after he crashed his motorcycle into a utility pole back in June 2003.
Paxson attached two conditions to the test: pass it, and we'll pay you the maximum; fail it, and we'll pay you $400,000 for the next 50 years of your life.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/magazine/specials/sportsman/2005/11/22/john.paxson   (605 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NBA - Paxson jumps from broadcasting Bulls to GM
John Paxson, whose game-winner clinched the 1993 NBA title, was officially introduced as Chicago's executive vice president of basketball operations Monday.
Paxson already is well versed in the Bulls' strengths and weaknesses, having traveled with the team and seen every one of its games as the radio analyst.
Paxson met briefly with the Bulls management team Monday morning, and he plans to have more wide-ranging discussions in the coming weeks.
espn.go.com /nba/news/2003/0414/1538755.html   (736 words)

  
 Marjorie Paxson - Session 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Paxson: He was interested in it, he loved geology, saved fossils and rocks and cores, all sorts of things like that, was always giving us lessons in the geological formations, if we drove around the country.
Paxson: Pretty much the house ran the way she wanted it and we did things the way she wanted it and that was it.
Paxson: She was a survivor, that's right, and she had been with the UP long enough that she stayed on.
npc.press.org /wpforal/pax1.htm   (9213 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NBA - John Paxson to interview for Bulls' GM job
CHICAGO -- John Paxson has been a player, an assistant coach and a broadcaster for the Chicago Bulls.
Jim Paxson is general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the two talk often.
Paxson is well-known for his exhaustive preparation as a broadcaster, and he has a wealth of contacts throughout the league.
espn.go.com /nba/news/2003/0411/1537870.html   (426 words)

  
 CNN/SI - NBA Basketball - Cavs no closer to naming coach - Monday June 14, 1999 08:38 PM
Paxson was in Chicago last week to attend the NBA's pre-draft workouts where potential draft picks showcased their skills to scouts, coaches, assistant coaches and general managers from around the league.
Paxson used the time to evaluate both players he might draft and coaches he might hire.
Paxson, who took over the Cavs' GM duties when Fratello was fired and former GM Wayne Embry stepped aside, said he has some coaching candidates in mind.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/nba/news/1999/06/14/cavaliers_coach   (523 words)

  
 Sportspages.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
What John Paxson asked for was not out of the realm of reason.
John Paxson guaranteed Curry an annuity of $50,000 a year for twenty years if Curry failed the test.
What John Paxson did wrong was caring for Curry and his well-being.
www.sportspages.com /content/blog.php?p=4653&more=1   (799 words)

  
 John Frost At Goodratings
Recently John was involved in the successful re-branding and launch of Star 99.1 (WAWZ) in the New York City metro, and the launch of the new Christian Top 40 formatted WAY-FM in Denver.
John was involved in the creation and development of the first nationally syndicated nighttime Christian music show “Sharing Life Together”, a partnership between Focus on the Family and KCMS in Seattle, now heard on over 50 stations nationwide.
John has served on the National Christian Radio Seminar steering committee for the last several years, and has been a featured speaker at numerous industry and GMA events.
www.goodratings.com /john.htm   (431 words)

  
 WNDU-TV: Running the Bulls Story: Running the Bulls - February 24, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Paxson shot the game winning three-pointer in Phoenix to give the bulls their 3rd straight NBA title in 1993.
Former Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps says that John Paxson is honest, he's a leader and he should be able to lead the bulls to where they should be.
John Paxson says he still keeps in touch with Michael Jordan and gets plenty of advice from number 23 on how to make the team better.
www.wndu.com /news/runningthebulls/022004/runningthebulls_34206.php?PRINT_VERSION=1   (645 words)

  
 SDC Talk! - Gin Gin 120; the women's mid-distance challenge
The mass start should be great--we have a lot of room on Paxson Lake to start everyone and a couple miles of open lake before the trail necks down into the woods.
Paxson is at milepost 186 on the Richardson Hwy.
Paxson Lodge may or maynot be open; we will post as soon as we know.
www.sleddogcentral.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5690   (1006 words)

  
 SPORTS - Comcast.net
Paxson has said he understands the privacy issues involved but insisted the Bulls do not have an ulterior motive; they simply do not want a situation similar to those of former Boston Celtics guard Reggie Lewis or Loyola Marymount star Hank Gathers _ players with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who collapsed and died.
Paxson, speaking during the team's media day, told reporters the Bulls had offered Curry $400,000 annually for the next 50 years if he failed the genetic test.
Paxson said he resented insinuations that the Bulls were on a sort of witch hunt, trying to find information on Curry.
www.comcast.net /sports/index.jsp?cat=SPORTS&fn=/2005/10/03/234164.html   (582 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Paxson, Stack haven't heard from Reinsdorf
John Paxson nor Jim Stack both said they would be open to talking about the job, though neither had heard from Reinsdorf as of Tuesday night.
The top candidates figure to be Paxson and B.J. Armstrong, another former Bull who is in his third season as a special assistant to Krause.
Paxson spent all but two years of his 11-year NBA career in Chicago, and he was a vital part of the first three-peat.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1536007&type=news   (537 words)

  
 Outside of Chicago
Paxson wants to force DNA testing on an employee and set up precedence for all employers to require of their employees the same.
Every player playing for John Paxson has a pre-disposition to something and yet Paxson is not showing concern for their well-being by asking them to take a DNA test.
Paxson will be trusting in his work of last year and is betting that the team takes steps toward a championship by hustling and working hard to develop a winner.
journals.aol.com /willie1826/OutsideofChicago   (3234 words)

  
 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2002023632   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
John Paxson is Vice President, Europe, and Bureau Chief, CBS News London, where he is responsible for editorial and logistical coverage of Europe, Africa, and South Asia.
Paxson has covered live are: the war in Bosnia; the Gulf War; the LA Riots; OJ's LA freeway chase; the San Francisco earthquake; the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa; the TWA hijacking; the hostage release in Beirut; the presidential campaigns of Carter and Reagan; and Watergate.
John Paxson was born in Montana and raised on a farm in the Bitterroot Valley.
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/hol051/2002023632.html   (283 words)

  
 John Paxson - A Golden Trail of Murder
John Paxson is an author and journalist and a native of the Bitterroot Valley of Western Montana.
He and his wife Lucrezia—also a journalist—live in London where John is bureau chief for CBS News.
Paxson’s story has a good pace, a tough mystery (with an action-packed climax), achingly beautiful descriptions of Montana, and an engaging hero.
avalonbooks.com /catalog/mystery/Paxson_GoldenTrailMurder.html   (547 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Basketball - Curry hot at Bulls' Paxson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Eddy Curry called it "mind-boggling" and a "shame" that Bulls GM John Paxson would reveal that Curry had a previously unreported heart scare five months before he was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat.
Paxson also raised the possibility that Curry has a family history of heart problems, saying the former Bulls center had once said his mother had suffered a heart attack, only to later say it hadn't happened.
The Knicks officially declined to comment on Paxson's statement or whether they were aware that Curry was taken to a Chicago-area hospital last October after complaining of chest pain and lightheadedness.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/basketball/story/355912p-303370c.html   (624 words)

  
 Skyhoops.com :: NBA coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Built almost entirely from scratch through the annual NBA draft, this team boasts all the key ingredients to be a dominant force in the East as well as the rest of the league for many years to come.
Since taking on the Bulls, John Paxson has shown that patience is the key to building a successful franchise.
John Paxson is making a habit of doing just that.
www.skyhoops.com /bulls.html   (758 words)

  
 Running with the Bulls: The Passion of the Paxson | HOOPSWORLD.com | NBA News and Information | powered by Basketball ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Paxson drafted Hinrich, Gordon, Deng, and Duhon, traded away the World’s Most Inconsistent Man in Jamal Crawford, and put us in excellent financial position to make a run at big free agents in the summer of 2006.
Paxson has made a lot of good decisions for this organization, and I have nothing but confidence that he will continue to do so in the future.
Everyone knows John Paxson as the precursor to Steve Kerr—a tremendous complementary three-point shooter for a team in which Michael Jordan was the star.
www.hoopsworld.com /article_15549.shtml   (1402 words)

  
 Welcome to National Radio
After 19 years OF NBA service all with the Utah Jazz' JOHN STOCKTON said after his team was eliminated in the playoffs by the Sacramento Kings, "I think it's time to move on," he said.
JOHN PAXSON NAMED CHICAGO BULLS GM Former Chicago Bulls player John Paxson was named to replace Jerry Krause as General Manager of the team.
Paxson was Michael Jordan's teammate for three NBA championships.
www.nationalradio.com /snMay03.shtml   (1124 words)

  
 Chicago Bulls, Scottie Pippen, National Basketball Association - CBS SportsLine.com
Paxson said Tuesday he intends to contact Pippen in the next few days to see whether the former All-Star has any interest in returning to Chicago, where he won six NBA championships.
John Paxson wants Scottie Pippen to finish his career in Chicago, where he spent his first 11 seasons.
Paxson said he hasn't talked with Pippen, and he has no idea whether his old teammate would want to return play for him.
www.sportsline.com /nba/story/6459998   (602 words)

  
 Meet Scorpius Digital Publishing's Authors
John Meaney is the author of three published novels - To Hold Infinity, Paradox and Context, the latter two titles being the first two books in the Nulapeiron Sequence.
John Pelan ("Twins," Hours of Darkness), is the author of The Colour Out of Darkness and Darkness, My Old Friend, a collection forthcoming from Shadowlands Press; and with Edward Lee co-author of Goon, Shifters, Splatterspunk and numerous short stories.
John is currently at work on a follow-up volume to his anthology Darkside:Horror for the Next Millennium.
www.scorpiusdigital.com /auth2.html   (2352 words)

  
 Coats Families in PA
Sometime after this, an unknown person came to John Coate's house, took four oxen out of his stall and was driving them away when, his authority being called in question, he could produce no warrant nor had he any known officer with him, wherefore Coate took his oxen and put them into the stall again.
In 1698 John and his son Henry were persecuted in the Exchequer Court for tithes at the suit of Joseph Horsey, parson of Kingsbury.
To 2 sons John and Daniel tract of land bought of John Morgan and David Harry in Charlestown to be valued at £1000.
www.coatsarchive.us /pacoatsanaly.htm   (9378 words)

  
 How should an NBA GM behave?
Privately, the organization is upset that Paxson is now speaking out about a player the Bulls no longer have under contract, saying Paxson may be violating federal privacy rules by talking about Curry's medical history.
Watching John Paxson take to a sports illustrated article, shows us the kind of character that has been acting behind the scenes all along.
For John Paxson to feel the need to defend himself this way is unprofessional in my opinion.
journals.aol.com /willie1826/OutsideofChicago/entries/646   (518 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Elvis Live at Five: A Novel: Books: John Paxson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Paxson (A Golden Trail of Murder) explores the blurring line between noteworthy events and media sensationalism in his third novel, an intriguing but undisciplined book that begins when a TV station in Texas tries to boost ratings by using a computer-generated Elvis to host a late-night talk show.
Paxson's narrative shows plenty of quirky charm in the early going, particularly in the chapters describing the creation of the talk show and its unlikely success.
Paxson, who is the London Bureau Chief for CBS News, is a solid writer who pushes all the right buttons in setting up his promising conceit, but his inability to control his plot ultimately becomes his Achilles heel here.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312285574?v=glance   (759 words)

  
 Chicago Tribune news : Bulls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
John Paxson came through Saturday on his promise to think big in free agency.
Bulls general manager John Paxson and coach Scott Skiles got everything they wanted in the NBA draft Wednesday night and a little extra.
From John Paxson's point of view, the Bulls can't go wrong with the 16th pick in Wednesday's NBA draft.
www.chicagotribune.com /sports/basketball/bulls   (386 words)

  
 True Hoop: John Paxson on Adam Morrison and Rudy Gay
John Paxson on Adam Morrison and Rudy Gay
Marlen Garcia of the Chicago Tribune quotes Chicago's Paxson saying Morrison's defense need not be a tragedy, and...
Paxson says Morrison might turn out to be a shooting guard.
www.truehoop.com /2006-draft-21914-john-paxson-on-adam-morrison-and-rudy-gay.html   (335 words)

  
 Tip-ins
Paxson will be remembered for ridding the Cavaliers of bad contracts (Shawn Kemp, Bob Sura and Wesley Person) as much as his bad draft choices (Trajan Langdon, DeSagana Diop and Dajuan Wagner) and bad head coaches (Randy Wittman and John Lucas).
To be fair, Gilbert's old team of Paxson and coach Paul Silas seemed to have the Cavaliers in a decent spot.
Meanwhile, general manager John Paxson put together a young Chicago Bulls team that is surprisingly seeded fourth in the playoffs.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/24/SPGVGCEBLK1.DTL   (562 words)

  
 John Paxson - BONES
Tripp's search for Scott Grady leads him to the site of Scott's research, where new dinosaur discoveries are a serious matter, especially in the cutthroat world of academia.
John Paxson was raised on a farm in the Bitterroot Valley of Western Montana.
He has been in broadcast journalism for the past twenty-five years, and is currently the deputy bureau chief at CBS News, London.
avalonbooks.com /catalog/mystery/Paxson_Bones.html   (241 words)

  
 ISAAC MANN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION (OSB MSS 46)
ALS to John Clayton, Newport 1829 Mar 16 Reports that he is unable to admit a recommended student to Newport Pagnell Academy.
ALS to John Ryland, Leicester 1790 Nov 16 With notes, possibly for a sermon, by Ryland.
ALS to John Blackburn, Exeter 1849 Mar 13 Writes from the Exeter Gaol, where he had been imprisoned for his actions in trying to effect the "liberation of religion from secular influence." + Simpson, David, 1745-1799.
webtext.library.yale.edu /beinflat/osborn.manni.HTM   (1619 words)

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