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  WXIA-11alive.com - Print Article - Atlanta,Georgia,11Alive,ATLANTA,News,Weather,Doppler,sports,events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Woodson, a top assistant for Larry Brown on the NBA champion Detroit Pistons, was a finalist for head coaching jobs in Toronto and Philadelphia the last two years.
Woodson said he was still completing contract negotiations with the Hawks, but said he considered the final details to be minor.
Woodson said he agreed to a four-year deal to replace Terry Stotts, who was fired May 6.
www.11alive.com /news/printarticle.aspx?storyid=48872   (411 words)

  
 NBA.com: COACHES
On July 8, 2004, Mike Woodson became the Hawks’ tenth head coach since the franchise moved to the Atlanta area in 1968.
Woodson and Knight were teammates the following year and helped the Kings to a third-place finish in the Midwest Division (38-44) and a first round playoff berth against the LA Lakers.
Woodson, born March 24, 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana, attended Broad Ripple High in Indianapolis.
www.nba.com /coachfile/mike_woodson/?nav=page   (927 words)

  
 TSN.ca - Print Story - Canada's Sports Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Woodson said he was still completing contract negotiations with the Hawks, but considered the final details to be minor.
Woodson, a top assistant for Larry Brown with the NBA champion Pistons, was a finalist for jobs in Toronto and Philadelphia the last two years.
Woodson said he was swayed by Atlanta's new nine-man ownership group and by his longtime relationship with Hawks general manager Billy Knight.
www.tsn.ca /tools/print_story.asp?id=90167   (363 words)

  
 SI.com - NBA - Woodson introduced as Hawks' new coach - Thursday July 8, 2004 4:06PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Woodson replaces Terry Stotts, who was fired in May after leading the Hawks to an abysmal 28-54 record.
Woodson, 46, was part of the Detroit Pistons championship run this season that saw them upset the heavily favoured Los Angeles Lakers in the final.
Woodson becomes the franchise's 10th coach since the Hawks moved to Atlanta in 1968.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/basketball/nba/07/08/woodson.hired   (252 words)

  
 Woodson World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Woodson holds final house meeting, says goodbye to distinguished veterans--A week back, Woodson House held its final house meeting of the year.
Woodson leads fight against construction noise--It was bad enough in August when we all arrived and realized our parking lot had been taken away to build the Black Culture Center thirty feet from our windows.
Congratulations to Woodson CA Justin Lewison Clark and Governor Loal Isaacs for leading the charge against the noise.
students.missouri.edu /~woodson   (491 words)

  
 InsideHoops.com - Atlanta Hawks Coach Mike Woodson Interview
Woodson: With the additions of (Antonio) McDyess and (Carlos) Delfino and the rookie that they drafted last year (Darko Milicic), I think they have a shot at repeating.
Woodson: Surely coaches who coach at this level, if they do it over a period of time, begin to grow and learn our league.
Woodson: Billy and I are on the same page each and every day in terms of what we are trying to get across.
www.insidehoops.com /woodson-interview-101904.shtml   (1118 words)

  
 Fantasy Basketball - Rotoworld.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Woodson officially was introduced as the Hawks' new coach Thursday, re-uniting him with former teammate Billy Knight, Atlanta's general manager.
Woodson was an assistant under Larry Brown for the last three years - two with Philadelphia and one with the Pistons, who stunned the Los Angeles Lakers in five games in the NBA Finals.
Woodson played 11 seasons in the NBA and also was an assistant in Milwaukee and Cleveland.
www.rotoworld.com /content/story.asp?sport=NBA&storyid=4478   (404 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Basketball / Hawks to Name Woodson New Head Coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Atlanta Hawks are expected to name Mike Woodson as their new head coach during a Thursday afternoon press conference.
Woodson -- an 11-year veteran of the NBA -- recently served as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons, who captured their third NBA championship last month.
Woodson will replace Terry Stotts, who was fired as the Hawks' head coach on May 6 after a 52-85 record in 1 1/2 seasons.
www.boston.com /sports/basketball/articles/2004/07/07/hawks_to_name_woodson_new_head_coach?mode=PF   (248 words)

  
 ATLsports.com
Woodson, who becomes Atlanta's tenth head coach since the franchise moved to the Atlanta area in 1968, spent this past season as an assistant on the staff of the World Champion Detroit Pistons.
Mike has all of the qualities I was looking for in a head coach as we went through this process.
Mike's professionalism and the knowledge he has gained from coaches like Bob Knight and Larry Brown will prove to be invaluable as we continue to instill a winning attitude within our community.\"
www.atlsports.com /html/story.php   (1100 words)

  
 The Oakland Press: Professional Sports: Woodson off to difficult start
Woodson, Larry Brown's top assistant last season and the first-year head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, received his championship ring in a pregame ceremony.
Woodson knew he was taking over a major rebuilding project, but that doesn't make the steady streams of defeats any easier to swallow.
All Brown asks of Woodson's current employer is that the franchise allows his close friend to grow into the job and develop his team.
www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/121104/pro_20041211025.shtml   (925 words)

  
 National Basketball Association - CBS SportsLine.com
Woodson comes to Atlanta after spending the past season as an assistant on the staff of the Detroit Pistons.
Woodson brings 19 years of NBA experience as a player and assistant to Atlanta, which has missed the playoffs each of the past five seasons.
He is replaced by Mike Montgomery, who has built a reputation as a great coach at Stanford, where he has been for the previous 18 seasons.
www.sportsline.com /nba/story/6317858   (541 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Woodson accepts offer from Hawks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ATLANTA (AP) — Mike Woodson has agreed to coach the Atlanta Hawks, and he says he knows major challenges await him in his first job as a head coach.
Woodson said he was still completing contract negotiations with the Hawks Tuesday.
Woodson was a finalist for jobs in Toronto and Philadelphia the last two years.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/hawks/2004-07-05-woodson-head_x.htm   (638 words)

  
 NBA.com: Chats
Woodson played in the NBA for 11 years as a 6-5 guard for seven teams after he was selected in the first round of the 1980 Draft by the New York Knicks with the 12th overall pick.
Mike Woodson: Josh Smith and Josh Childress are in the learning mode, with great upsides, if they learn and work hard.
Mike Woodson: My relationship with Larry goes back to 1981, when I was traded to New Jersey, where I played for him briefly, before he traded me to Kansas City, where my career took off.
proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatNBA?event_id=5600   (1514 words)

  
 The Brunswick News
Woodson agreed to a four-year deal to replace Terry Stotts, who was fired May 6.
Woodson told reporters from his home in Houston that there were a few minor contract details to finish.
Woodson was Larry Brown's top assistant on the NBA champion Pistons and considered a strong candidate to eventually succeed Brown.
www.thebrunswicknews.com /front/281292886642449.php   (281 words)

  
 Woodson, Smith fined combined $35K | ajc.com
Hawks coach Mike Woodson and second-year forward Josh Smith have been fined by the NBA for their comments about the game officials following Monday night's loss in Milwaukee.
Woodson complained after Monday night's 88-87 loss to Milwaukee about the imbalance of fouls in the game.
The whole organization was mum on the fines, their first of the kind during Woodson's tenure as coach.
www.ajc.com /services/content/sports/hawks/stories/0318hawkfines.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=21   (377 words)

  
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Woodson, a rookie head coach, is a long way from the championship run he experienced as an assistant coach with the Pistons last season.
Woodson has two other sustaining elements: the security of a long-term contract and the unwavering support of team president Billy Knight.
Woodson is also comforted that the team could have as much as $20 million in salary-cap room this summer.
www.wzzm13.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=36106   (510 words)

  
 The Pact At Star's Crossing - A chilling labyrinth of a novel that runs the gamut of human emotions as five high school ...
Woodson, a front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, frantically places a call to a fellow Wilmington classmate, Diane Barnes, in the Washington, DC area.
Woodson and Barnes nervously agree to meet in Wilmington the day before the twentieth class reunion to discuss their options.
The aggressive Lt. Governor Mike Woodson suspects that Diane Barnes' long-time Wilmington psychiatrist, Philip Jenkins, is the flmailer.
www.thebookden.com /pact1.html   (2301 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Rookie coaches pay dues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
First-time NBA coaches Mike Woodson, Mike Montgomery and Sam Mitchell could throw one whale of a pity party as they try to turn around struggling franchises.
Woodson, whose Atlanta Hawks are 5-26, and Mitchell, whose Toronto Raptors are 13-22, have their experience as players and assistant coaches in the NBA to help them cope with the struggles teams go through during an 82-game season.
Woodson was on the Los Angeles Clippers when they won 12 games in 1986-87 and 17 in 1987-88.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/2005-01-10-rookie-coaches_x.htm   (601 words)

  
 Hawks Veteran Collier Dies
The news was obviously difficult to receive but it was even harder to deliver, Hawks Coach Mike Woodson said.
Woodson, General Manager Billy Knight and Atlanta Spirit LLC President and Chief Executive Bernie Mullin broke the news to the team when the players arrived at a morning workout.
Howell said that Collier "was as healthy as you could be." Woodson said he didn't notice anything abnormal with Collier after practice Friday.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501304_pf.html   (648 words)

  
 Macomb Daily : Sports : Woodson takes Atlanta job 07/06/04
Mike Woodson, Brown's right-hand man with the Pistons' championship team, has accepted the Atlanta Hawks head coaching job, a Pistons source confirmed Monday.
Woodson has not yet signed a contract but will be named the Hawks' new coach as early as today.
Woodson followed Brown to Detroit after serving as a Sixers assistant for two seasons.
www.macombdaily.com /stories/070604/spo_woodson001.shtml   (267 words)

  
 Woodson pushed true professional   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ATLANTA — Mike Woodson is finally at peace, finally able to rest through the night and finally free of the demons that have invaded his thoughts every second of the past four days.
But nothing has been the past few days, including the not so subtle suggestions that Woodson was too tough on Collier and his Hawks teammates during training camp and that the preseason grind, both mental and physical, played some part in a tragedy that remains a mystery today.
Collier was the same guy last year, when he started 44 games, as he was at the start of training camp this year, when he knew he'd be asked to back up Zaza Pachulia.
www.springfieldnewssun.com /sports/content/shared/sports/stories/BKN_COLLIER_SIDE_1020_COX.html   (508 words)

  
 SI.com - NBA - Report: Woodson to be hired as Hawks coach - Monday July 5, 2004 6:20PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ESPN reported Monday that Woodson, who has spent the last three seasons under Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown in Detroit, has accepted an offer to become the next coach of the Atlanta Hawks.
The 47-year-old Woodson would replace Terry Stotts, who was fired in May. ESPN said that an announcement will be made as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.
Woodson was the top assistant under Brown as the Pistons stunned the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/basketball/nba/07/05/bc.bkp.lgns.hawkswoodson.r   (249 words)

  
 USA Basketball: Men's Pan Am Games Team History -- 1979
Led by 6'5" Indiana University junior Mike Woodson, who averaged 18.3 ppg., collegiate All-Americans 6'7" Michael Brooks and 6'2" Kyle Macy contributed 17.4 ppg.
Defeating the Virgin Islands 136-88, the USA was led by Woodson's 24 points, while O'Koren and Brooks each tossed in 21 points and Lester added 20.
Woodson tallied a high of 30 points in the USA's 99-73 win over Argentina, then recorded 29 point showings in wins against Cuba and Brazil.
www.usabasketball.com /history/mpag_1979.html   (561 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Long friendship led Woodson to Knight, Hawks
ATLANTA – Before Mike Woodson would agree to coach the Atlanta Hawks, he had to know that Billy Knight, his longtime friend, would stick around as general manager.
Knight has one year remaining on his current contract, but Woodson's concern about Knight's future with the team will be addressed, Bernie Mullin, the new chief of operations for the Hawks, said Thursday.
Woodson replaces Terry Stotts, who was fired May 6.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20040708-1450-bkn-hawks-woodson.html   (670 words)

  
 Sports: Pistons assistant to coach Hawks
ATLANTA - Mike Woodson agreed to coach the Hawks after working as the top assistant last season for the NBA champion Pistons.
Woodson said he was still completing negotiations with the Hawks but considered the final details minor.
Woodson, an assistant for Pistons coach Larry Brown, was a finalist for jobs in Toronto and Philadelphia the past two years.
www.sptimes.com /2004/07/07/Sports/Pistons_assistant_to_.shtml   (641 words)

  
 Hawkszone.net
It can be assured that Mike Woodson is seriously ticked off at the way the Hawks defended out west.
It stands to reason that he will be spending most of his time in the near future working to avoid the continuation of unopposed dunks and drives against his team.
Leading this roster will be Mike Woodson, who despite his talent as an assistant coach, is just as unproven in his position as the rookies are in theirs.
www.hawkszone.net   (1905 words)

  
 ACE III Communications, Inc. Publishes: Atlanta Goodlife Magazine and The Champion Newspaper
Woodson is the 10th Atlanta Hawks head coach since the franchise moved to the Atlanta area in 1968.
Woodson’s father died of a massive heart attack when Woodson was only 12 years old.
Woodson remembers that the family lived in various parts of Indianapolis in attempts to find the most suitable housing for such a large family.
www.atlantagoodlifemagazine.com /coverstory.htm   (494 words)

  
 Woodson's time may be running out
Mike Woodson's tenure as Atlanta Hawks coach turned 100 games old Wednesday.
With only 15 wins and the folly that is the Hawks, Woodson could be coaching his last month.
Woodson has locker-room issues that can't be resolved by captains such as Joe Johnson, never called on for leadership in Phoenix, and Al Harrington, never mistaken as a leader.
www.azcentral.com /sports/suns/articles/1211nbainsidernb1211.html   (592 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The top-three free agent point guards include Jason Terry, Sam Cassell, and Mike James, but the Hawks will be hard-pressed to convince them to come to Atlanta.
The top free agent point guards are Jason Terry, Sam Cassell, Mike James, and Speedy Claxton, and you have to believe the Mavs and Clips are serious about retaining Terry and Cassell, respectively.
Woodson's return should allow guys like Joe Johnson and Josh Smith to retain their ascending fantasy value.
fantasysports.aol.com /scoreboard/news.cfm?nbID=5&code=atl   (1785 words)

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