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Skiles named Magic coach

SCOTT Skiles was named coach of the Orlando Magic on Friday, the 13-season National Basketball Association manager tasked with ending the club’s three-year run of failing to reach the playoffs.

Skiles, whose first season as a coach was for Greek side Thessaloniki in 1996-97, takes the job from which Jacque Vaughn was fired last February, one taken on an interim basis by James Borrego.

The Magic went 25-57 this season, only a slight improvement on 23-59 the season before and 20-62 in 2012-13 but not nearly enough for a team that reached the NBA finals in 2009, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers, and 1995, losing to Houston.

Skiles, 51, has an overall NBA regular season record of 443-433 guiding Phoenix, Chicago and Milwaukee, from where he resigned after a 16-16 start to the 2012-13 campaign. He has guided six teams into the playoffs, reaching the second round in 2000 with Phoenix and 2007 with Chicago.

“Scott clearly distinguished himself as a tremendous fit,” Magic general manager Rob Hennigan said. “Our young roster will benefit greatly from Scott’s extensive head coaching experience and commitment to teaching smart, physical, unselfish basketball. ”


 

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