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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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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Reggie is the one who made our transformation to the NBA real.
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I think Ronnie is a guy who acts first and thinks later. If he were to do it over again, he might do it differently.
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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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I think he certainly showed he could play when he got playing time.
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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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We hate to let James go, but because of the balance of our team now, it is best for both he and our team to make this move.
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We have a good roster with good players on the roster. I think they'll appreciate not having this in the middle of their season.
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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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When I first heard about it, I thought to myself, 'I don't want a chair that looks like a basketball goal.' This doesn't look like that. The pillows are really beautiful. I'm going to put them in my house.
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This is kind of the last straw of a lot of issues.
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I'm not putting a timetable on it. These things aren't that easy to work out.
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I'm not going to box myself in by saying something like that.
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I hope we can get something done in the next couple of weeks. But too many things can happen on the way to the forum for me to say we definitely will.