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Once again the search begins at the University of Colorado. On Wednesday, Wake Forest officially introduced their new head coach, Jeff Bzdelik, former CU head men’s basketball coach.

Now that Bzdelik has moved on to what he described as his “dream job”, CU athletic director Mike Bohn is now left with the job of conducting another search to replace a head coach in the athletics department. Just Monday, CU introduced Linda Lappe as the new women’s head basketball coach, 14 days after Kathy McConnell-Miller was fired after five seasons.

According to Yahoo! Sports, the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed in principle with the the Los Angeles Clippers to acquire center Marcus Camby. For the deal to be complete, both teams will require a league office approval which both teams will wait on.

According to Yahoo! sports, Camby was in Portland when he was informed by his agent Rick Kaplan that he would be traded to the Blazers. The trade proposal according to Yahoo! would send Camby to the Blazers for guard Steve Black, forward Travis Outlaw and $3 million as well.

Apparently even before he plays an NBA regular season game this year, Houston Rockets guard Tracy McGrady is on pace to becoming an NBA All-Star next year in February when the event hits the Cowboys stadium in Arlington, TX.

McGrady so far has not played a single minute for the 12-9 Rockets which picked up Trevor Ariza during the offseason.

If you had an old Allen Iverson jersey from when he played in Philadelphia, well get it out of the attic because Iverson just signed with the 76ers, the NBA franchise that drafted him No.1 overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft out of Georgetown.

The 76ers president Ed Stefanski announced the signing on the team’s website on Wednesday as the 10-time All-Star is expected to make his debut with his first team at home against the Denver Nuggets the team he was traded to on Monday.

The New Jersey Nets have not only matched the current winless record in the NBA going 0-17, they just moved Kiki Vandeweghe to their head coach position for the rest of the regular season.

According to Yahoo! Sports who had first reported that Vandeweghe was leaning toward accepting the position, the GM’s coaching staff would include Del Harris who has held some key head coaching and assistant positions in the NBA.

The Philadelphia 76ers have met with their former superstar guard Allen Iverson to discuss the possibility of a return to the NBA for the 10-time All-Star who recently announced he was retiring from the NBA.

Apparently both parties met in Dallas for nearly two hours where the 76ers will face the Dallas Mavericks. Team president Ed Stefanski said in a statement released that no commitment has been made yet since both parties are still deciding on the best option.

According to ESPN.com, NBA guard and All-Star player Allen Iverson is planning to retire from the game of basketball since on suitor has come out to sign him when he cleared waivers.

ESPN is reporting per Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and nationally syndicated radio host Stephen A. Smith that Iverson, through his representatives have informed him [Smith] of the former Philadelphia, Denver, Detroit and Memphis guard’s intentions to retire from the NBA.

After taking the most embarrassing loss of the season on Wednesday night against the Phoenix Suns, 124-104, the New Hornets have fired head coach Byron Scott.

On Thursday, the team announced that Scott would be replaced by general manager Jeff Bower who will have Tim Floyd serve as his top assistant. The Hornets have gotten out to a 3-6 start and look incredibly terrible in their first nine games.

Though the Commercial Appeal reported on Monday that Memphis Grizzlies guard Allen Iverson is contemplating retiring from the NBA, the Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley has mentioned that he is not sure of what Iverson’s future plans are; it might not include retirement.

For Iverson to retire from basketball when he can still play for some teams in the league would be an injustice to arguably the toughest smallest man to single-handedly carry a team to an NBA Finals in the history of the league.

“I’m not in Allen’s head. I don’t know what he’s thinking,” Heisley mentioned to AP.

Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall seems to be singing a different tune at the moment with his team in a surprising 2-0 position after their home win over the Cleveland Browns this past weekend.

Is there a reason for Marshall’s new approach or is there a catch? Maybe the latter more than the former because Marshall was probably scared to begin with when new and first-time head coach Josh McDaniels traded away the team’s franchise quarterback Jay Cutler when both could not settle their dispute amicably.