- Bucky Buckwalter
Morris "Bucky" Buckwalter is a former
National Basketball Association coach and executive, as well as a former coach in theAmerican Basketball Association .Buckwalter grew up in
La Grande, Oregon , and played high school basketball atLa Grande High School . Buckwalter played college basketball at Utah, where his team advanced to the quarterfinals of the 1956 NCAA basketball tournament before losing to eventual champion San Francisco.cite news|url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970907&slug=2558927|title=Blazers' Buckwalter Retires With Countless Tales To Tell|accessdate=2008-06-23|date=1997-09-07|last=Baum|first=Bob|work=Seattle Times ]He served briefly as head coach of the
Seattle SuperSonics in 1972 (on an interim basis), and later served as the head coach of theUtah Stars of the ABA, replacingJoe Mullaney .He served as Vice-President of Basketball Operations for the
Portland Trail Blazers . In 1991 he won theNBA Executive of the Year Award , as the Blazers posted a league-best 63-19 record. He retired from the Blazers in 1997.References
External links
* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/buckwbu99c.html BasketballReference.com: Bucky Buckwalter]
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