Originally Posted by allen3xis
What will be most interesting for Walsh is whether he heeds John Calipari's clandestine push for the job. Coach Life Skills has Memphis in the Final Four and he knows this weekend could be his ticket back to the NBA, where he never wanted to leave. He is selling himself as the man who can deliver LeBron James in 2010, the Jay-Z for the Knicks. Of course, Memphis' director of player personnel, William Wesley - the famous World Wide Wes - is responsible for delivering the Tigers' big stars, from Dajuan Wagner to Chris Douglas-Roberts to Rose, with last week's McDonald's All-American game MVP Tyreke Evans of Philadelphia on deck.
This time, Calipari is desperate to get on the right side of the Hudson River, desperate to vindicate his checkered run with the New Jersey Nets. He made the playoffs once in Jersey, but mostly made enemies at a rapid rate. His paranoia and pettiness was legendary, but wildly entertaining. Even so, Calipari's partner in prowling for NBA jobs, Larry Brown, is still close with Walsh, and King did baby sit Brown and Calipari together on the Sixers bench in 1999-2000.
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He's not meant for the NBA...he's a college guy through and through....but the NJ situation was awful for him...he can't make things much worse here.
