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Give them credit: We got old, they got past us. When they got to be 15 and 16 years old, they didn't seem like 'girls' anymore, but they also didn't seem like women yet. Along the way, he picked up about a dozen enemies for every friend. She understands there is always a price attached to winning, and she would do it all over again the same way if given the chance. I walk over to sit with her because I want to understand what she thinks of her husband coaching in the WNBA. Cappie Pondexter, Katie Smith, Plenette Pierson and Bill Laimbeer are out of the playoff picture this season, but the coach has high hopes for the Liberty in 2014. Fight Archives: Watch Bill Laimbeer's greatest brawls or diagrams of plays on the large dry-erase board. holders and personally asking for their help. They tied their wedding knots in a private ceremony and has kept everything low-key. Laimbeer then signed with the Cavaliers for the 198081 season. 4:59 pm ET. He joined the staff of former Los Angeles Lakers forward Kurt Rambis, who had just been hired to coach the Minnesota Timberwolves. "All of a sudden I was a dirty player. February 7, 1989, p. D25; June 12, 1990, p. B12; June 20, 2002, p. D7; Bill Laimbeer wasnt one of those players, though, as his father was an executive with Owens-Illinois, a company that produces glass containers and paper products. the June 1979 NBA draft with the 65th pick, the team did not make him an company, which had 240 employees and $60 million in projected sales in Bill Laimbeer wants to know if I've seen the movie "A Few Good Men.". Many were amazed at Laimbeer's ability to succeed as a coach of There are two kinds of people in WNBA circles: those who heartily endorse Laimbeer's straightforward brand of coaching, labeling him a genius with X's and O's, and those who begrudgingly admit he knows what he's doing -- that he has a knack for getting the top women's basketball players in the world to play to the best of their abilities -- even if he is kind of a jerk. it just keeps me fresher. He might even be a good guy to have on His scoring also improved from 16.3 Young walks to the sideline, deflated, but immediately starts consulting with teammates, pointing and nodding. losing the series' first game to the Sparks, the Shock won the Las Vegas Aces boss, Bill Laimbeer was born on 19th May 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. He doesn't care how he's viewed, even if how he's viewed is keeping him from achieving the very thing he says is (or at least was) his ultimate goal: a head-coaching job in the league.