Donnie Walsh
Donnie Walsh
Joseph Donald "Donnie" Walsh, Jr.is a Front Office Adviser of the Indiana Pacers and a former professional basketball coach. He is also the former President of Basketball Operations for the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 March 1941
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Magic's greatest asset is his enthusiasm, the way he can lift his team up.
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I told the teams that I was dealing with out there, that he was going to have a large impact and whoever got him they'd move up in the standings. The only thing that will limit them does not have to do with Ronnie - they do not have enough big people to go up against the teams in the West.
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What he gave to this franchise, this city and this state, for 18 years, puts him among the elite athletes to have played professional sports. No. 31 in the rafters adds another legacy to the great tradition of Indiana basketball.
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We're like everybody else. If there's a good deal out there we'll do it.
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That's when Mel (Daniels) and I ran the workouts.
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I think that it is important for us to put our past behind us and stop these distractions.
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He's always living down his past in this franchise, and so are we. So I do think it's a time to kind of break apart and see if he can get a new start somewhere else. I think it's very important for us to put our past behind us and to stop these distractions so that what I think is a fine basketball team can go on.
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He's been cleared. It's all set. He's been working out on his own, separately, all along. Now he'll get a chance to practice with the team again.
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Reggie is the one who made our transformation to the NBA real.
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My way has always been to try to support players. If anything, I've probably gone too far with Ronnie because I felt like he was going to learn how to do things.
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This is kind of the last straw of a lot of issues.
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I do think the commissioner feels like he wants to present a picture to the public that becomes a professional basketball player and a pro basketball league. But even before this, we were on our way. We've just got a lot of young players in this league who need to grow into that role, and most of them are there.
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I do think it is a time to kind of break apart and see if he can get a new start somewhere else.
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I'm not putting a timetable on it. These things aren't that easy to work out.