Sports @marillo Globe-News: Which job offer will Bird pick?
Whick job offer will Bird pick? Web posted 5/8/97 The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) – The question is the same as it was when Larry Bird made blind passes or amazing shots from behind the backboard: What will he do next? M.L. Carr’s resignation as director of basketball operations Wednesday left one key figure’s future uncertain in the shakeup of the Boston Celtics. And Bird’s decision – to help new Celtics coach Rick Pitino with personnel matters or, more likely, to become coach of the Indiana Pacers – should be revealed by Friday. Pacers president Donnie Walsh and a source close to Bird denied reports Wednesday that Bird already had agreed to return to his home state and succeed Larry Brown as Indiana’s coach. A Celtics spokesman said the club was unaware of any decision Bird might have made. That decision – as Pitino said Tuesday when he was named coach – might come down to whether Bird wants to be in the front office talking by telephone to general managers or wants to be on the ben
