The New Orleans Hornets are waiting till Monday to sit down with Chris Paul (notes) to try to work out their differences, but Paul has already let it be known that he would like to be traded before the season begins to the New York Knicks , Orlando Magic , Dallas Mavericks , or Portland Trail Blazers . The Knicks haven’t waited to talk about it internally, of course

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The New Orleans Hornets are waiting till Monday to sit down with Chris Paul (notes) to try to work out their differences, but Paul has already let it be known that he would like to be traded before the season begins to the New York Knicks , Orlando Magic , Dallas Mavericks , or Portland Trail Blazers .

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LAS VEGAS – With second-year players Darren Collison’s and Marcus Thornton’s summer league play completed, the New Orleans lost their third consecutive game 81-69 to the Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday night at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion. It has been busy day involving the Hornets…

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Hornets GM Bower says he listens to every offer, while new coach Williams wants Paul to stay Jeff Bower – Coach – New Orleans Hornets – Portland Trail Blazers – Nate McMillan

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The New Orleans Hornets installed Monty Williams as head coach on Monday, handing the former NBA forward an opportunity to make the step up from an assistant coaching role with the Portland Trail Blazers.

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The New Orleans Hornets installed former Portland Trail Blazers assistant Monty Williams as head coach.

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NEW ORLEANS, June 5 (UPI) — Portland Trail Blazers assistant Coach Monty Williams is reportedly close to accepting the head coach position for the New Orleans Hornets.

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The New Orleans Hornets have opened negotiations with Portland Trail Blazers assistant Monty Williams to become their next head coach after Boston Celtics’ assistant Tom Thibodeau indicated that he plans to pursue other coaching opportunities, sources close to the situation said Friday night. Williams will likely be…

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Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach Monty Williams has interviewed with the New Orleans Hornets and the Philadelphia 76ers about head coaching jobs. He talks about the opportunities with the Oregonian.

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It’s been expected that the New Orleans Hornets will be sold to minority owner Gary Chouest, but Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears tweeted last night that NBA Commissioner David Stern said " it’s not a given at all " that Chouest will complete purchase of Hornets and that the process "taking a long time." The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that Chouest, who supposedly agreed on the sale with current owner George Shinn last week, is still expected to become the team’s majority owner .

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A person familiar with the meeting says Portland Trail Blazers assistant Monty Williams is traveling to New Orleans to interview for the Hornets’ vacant head coaching position.

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Report: New Orleans Hornets to interview Portland Trail Blazers assistant Monty Williams

Boston Celtics associate head coach Tom Thibodeau took time out of the team’s current battle against the Cleveland Cavaliers to interview for the head-coaching job for the New Orleans Hornets yesterday, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Thursday, the Hornets also interviewed ESPN analyst Mark Jackson, who recently told the Philadelphia 76ers that he wasn’t interested in being considered for their head-coaching opening. The Hornets have interviewed five candidates since Tuesday in order to try and beat out the other four teams looking for a head coach right now

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The New Orleans Hornets aren’t alone in the search for a new head coach and the team has apparently identified four of the gentlemen it would like to take over for Jeff Bower who Hornets fans have got to hope does a better job in the front office than he did on the coaching sidelines. One of the men the Hornets may end up hiring is former Houston Rockets coach and New Orleans native Avery Johnson. He team also is apparently talking to Mavs assistant coach Dwane Casey, who also supposedly has some interest from the Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers

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