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Beyond the Association => Global Basketball => Topic started by: coco on December 16, 2010, 02:12:53 PM

Title: Pitino might coach team Puerto Rico?!?
Post by: coco on December 16, 2010, 02:12:53 PM
This is intriging. Puerto Ricans tend to keep coaching of the National team inhouse.  I wonder what the offer is/was.  I hope it turns out for the best for both Pitino and the Puerto Rico national team.


Official: Puerto Rico, Pitino talk Olympics
CBSSports.com wire reports
Dec. 14, 2010
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The president of the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation says the national team is in "very advanced talks" with Louisville's Rick Pitino about coaching the club in pre-Olympic qualifying next summer.

Federation president Carlos J. Beltran says Tuesday the team is hoping Pitino will be its coach during the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in Argentina in August.

Beltran says the process has not been completed but "we are very close. There are just a few details we are completing."