KC Jones article from the Boston Globe web site

[bocelts@scsn.net (R. Bentz Kirby)]

Greetings to all:

KC Jones, holder of 12 NBA rings will now be a Women's league coach. 
The article is at url:

http://www.boston.com:80/dailynews/wirehtml/132/Women_s_league_coup__NBA_Hall_of_Fa.htm


and says:

Women's league coup: NBA
                   Hall of Famer K.C. Jones to
                   coach Blizzard

                   Associated Press, 05/12/97 16:22 

                   HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - K.C. Jones, the
                   former NBA coach and Celtics great who
                   earned 12 championship rings, was hired
                   Monday as head coach of the New England
                   Blizzard - a coup for the fledgling women's
                   league. 

                   The American Basketball League and the
                   Blizzard said they would hold a news conference
                   Tuesday to welcome the NBA Hall of Famer
                   into the fold. 

                   Jones, an assistant with Boston last year, wore
                   the Celtic green from 1958-67 - eight of them
                   title seasons. 

                   He won two more titles as an assistant coach
                   (one with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972). 

                   And then, as the Celtics' head coach, he won
                   two more, posting the best regular-season
                   (.751) and playoff (.637) winning percentage in
                   team history. 

                   The past three weeks have been especially good
                   for the ABL, which just completed its first
                   season and is competing against the
                   NBA-backed WNBA. The new league opens
                   its first season in June. 

                   Last month, the ABL announced a new franchise
                   in Long Beach, Calif., and the signings of
                   Connecticut star Kara Wolters, The Associated
                   Press Player of the Year; Kate Starbird,
                   Stanford's career scoring leader and winner of
                   the 1997 Naismith Award; All-American
                   forward Shalonda Enis from Alabama; and
                   several other top players. 
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