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EAST Alex Kennedy   Alex Raskin   Bill Ingram   Jason Fleming   Lang Greene   Tommy Beer   Yannis Koutroupis (2) Miami vs.
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Will Phil Jackson return to coach a team during the 2012-13 NBA season? That’s one of the burning questions as we enter the offseason and the rumors aren’t going away anytime soon. The legendary head coach has been linked to several teams, most notably the New York Knicks, and he may come out of retirement if the right situation presents itself.

Jeanie Buss, who has been dating Jackson since 2001, added credence to the rumors during an interview with

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Please join Susan Bible for her NBA Chat each Saturday at 11:00 am EST. Susan is a Newlines Editor and a member of the fantasy team at HOOPSWORLD. She covers the Oklahoma City Thunder and the NBA at large. Drop in your questions now.

Robert

The Philly/Chicago series has highlighted how ineffective Boozer is as the second option on Chicago. Does Chicago look to move him in the off-season or do they keep them together and try again next year?

Susan Bible

For the second year in a row, right? His regular season showing has trouble spilling over to the postseason. To hear Thibs talk, he’s still high on him. Boozer, with his contract and recent performance, is virtually untradeable. Amnesty maybe? The consensus really is that the roster remains intact.

Lucas

Good morning Susan, once again the Hawks are out of the playoff early. Do you think the team will make some personal changes this off season, and if yes what do you anticipate? Thank you, have a good day.

Susan Bible

Morning, Lucas. The Horford injury really affected the Hawks. I know he returned for the last three games of the playoffs, but I can’t help but wonder what would have happened had he not been hurt and available all season/postseason.

Do you mean personal changes or personnel changes? The problem with the Hawks is the fact they have $60.9 million on the books for 2012-13. And that’s just for six players (Johnson-$19.8M, Smith-$13.2M, Horford-$12M, Williams-$8.3M, Pachulia-$5.2M and Teague-$2.4M). Plus they have five minimum salary cap holds to the tune of $2.4M. They aren’t going to be able to do much with the roster. They may be looking at a coach and/or GM change.

paprika

Hi susan ,hope all is good? Im a laker fan with a suggestion and i hope mitch k. Would take a page from the griz gm and maybe read some chats n blogs so he can get ideas from fans. My idea is ,if the lake show fall short against the nuggz or this playoffs maybe trade pau n bynum for dwith. And lastly try get odom back since he seems like he only wants to play for the lakers…. Whats your take?

Susan Bible

All is good, paprika (I have to say

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