Jim Cleamons finalized his coaching staff.  Jack Nolan, Charlie Parker,
and Lanny Van Eman join Butch Beard and Bob Salmi as assistant coaches.
Nolan was a scout and video coordinator for Atlanta since 1988.  Parker
was the head coach for USC last season.  Eman has 30 years of coaching
experience and spent the last 3 years working for the state of Arizona.
Beard and Eman will be the head assistants.  Nolan's and Parker's duties
will include advance scouting.  Salmi's duties will include breaking down
video to analyze the games (including at halftime).  The NBA only allows 4
coaches (assistants + head coach) on the bench, so Salmi will be in the
video room and one of the other assistants will probably be doing advance
scouting.

The Mavs also named Mark Aguirre as director of player development and
scout.  Aguirre played for the Mavs for 8 seasons.  He also played with
Detroit's two championship teams.  His duties will included helping the
players in the off-season workouts (especially teaching the front court
players low post moves), player liaison, and some college scouting.
Aguirre, a good friend with minority owner Frank Zaccanelli, has been
helping the team behind the scenes since the new ownership arrived.  For
those of you who remember Aguirre purely as the whinny, immature Mav from
the 80s, he has changed.  He has matured and admits that he made mistakes
in the past with his sour relationship as a player with then coach Dick 
Motta.  Aguirre also hung around the team some during practices, with
Motta's blessing, and was seen at some games during the past two seasons.