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Malik Rose is Offered College Coaching Job, Turns it Down Almost Immediately
By Jim Adair
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In the midst of reporting middling trades, rumors, and draft prognostications, Adrian Wojnarowski dropped a Woj Bomb of a different kind just over six hours ago: Mailk Rose, currently a key part of the Sixers’ beloved 3Ms broadcast team (Molly, Malik, Marc), was offered a job on Avery Johnson’s University of Alabama staff. The offer was to be Johnson’s “special assistant to the head coach” – or “special assistant head coach,” if you’re Dwight Schrute – basically a first step in the door of coaching. Woj reported that Rose was expected to make a decision sometime over the weekend. But it didn’t take nearly that long.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, Rose has already declined the job, refusing to let Avery Johnson be the Yoko who breaks up the 3Ms. In turning the job down, I assume Rose told Johnson that now is not the time to get into coaching, or that he’s gonna focus on climbing the broadcasting ladder… or he just texted a picture of himself with his broadcast partners, Marc and Molly, and said, “You know.”
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