Timing and positioning are often factors leading to success or its counterpart. With that in mind, here's a feature on Brian Shaw of the Lakers -- Shaw was born in Oakland and graduated from Bishop O'Dowd. Here's an early photo of him with a very young Aalim Moor III, who is now at San Jose State University.
Lakers' Shaw should stay if Jackson goes
Kevin Ding
Orange County Register
August 26, 2010
A year from now, Brian Shaw probably won't get to vacation in Cabo in relative anonymity anymore.
So well aware of that is he that Shaw is lying low as best as he can these days, determined not to bring extra attention to himself as one of the biggest winners of this tumultuous NBA offseason.
Shaw could've become head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers but had the restraint to insist on a timetable to ensure the job would not be a glorified janitorial position: cleaning up the mess LeBron James left.
Given that Shaw is connected to and mostly beloved by nearly every person in the NBA, past and present, Shaw had more than an inkling James wouldn't be in Cleveland for him to teach. So Shaw passed on what indeed wound up being the worst job in the NBA: We're talking about disheartened fan base, wacko owner, bad city, bad arena and the horrible double negative of a bad team with old players.
Middling coaching jobs come along pretty often, and Shaw has interviewed for them often. Kurt Rambis wound up taking one of them in Minnesota. Byron Scott took this one in Cleveland...
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