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Del Negro agrees to coach Clippers
By: espn.comPosted On: 07/07/2010 4:02 P
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The Los Angeles Clippers have reached an agreement in principle with Vinny Del Negro to become the team's head coach.
The Los Angeles Clippers have reached an agreement in principle with Vinny Del Negro to become the team's head coach.
The team said Tuesday night in an e-mail that more details would be announced Wednesday.
Del Negro was fired by the Chicago Bulls in May after going 82-82 in two seasons and making two postseason appearances.
Mike Dunleavy quit as Clippers coach in early February to focus exclusively on his general manager duties, then he and the team severed ties completely on March 8. His assistant, Kim Hughes, finished the season as interim coach before being dismissed on April 15.
The Clippers had a 29-53 record last season, missing the playoffs for the 15th time in 17 years. They were 8-33 on the road, their worst mark away from home since 1999-2000, when they went 5-36.
The Clippers brought in their finalists for interviews twice over the past two weeks. Along with Del Negro, the organization gave Dallas Mavericks assistant and former Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Dwane Casey a close look. Del Negro and Casey were the two finalists for the Chicago job two years ago. Again, on this occasion, Del Negro got the nod. Lindsay Lohan is getting a reprieve in one court case: A judge is delaying a civil trial that stems from one of her 2007 arrests.
Attorneys for Lohan and four people suing her agreed Wednesday to reschedule a trial set for later this month. They cited the upcoming jail sentence ordered by a judge who ruled Lohan had violated her probation in a 2007 drug case.
No new date was set.
The 24-year-old Lohan must turn herself in for a 90-day jail sentence on July 20. The civil trial was scheduled to begin a week later.
Lohan is being sued by a woman who was in a vehicle chased by Lohan and three men.
A deposition that will focus on her drug use at the time has also been delayed.
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