Denver Nuggets interim coach Melvin Hunt talks to his players during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in Denver. The Nuggets fired Brian Shaw earlier Tuesday, and promoted Hunt, who had been one of Shaw's assistants. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

 David Zalubowski

Olson discovered longtime NBA player, coach Shaw 

Brian Shaw, fired last week as head coach of the Denver Nuggets, was more or less discovered by Lute Olson in the summer of 1986. Olson chose Shaw to be part of Team USA in the World Championships even though the UC Santa Barbara guard was on nobody’s radar. That team included Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker, NBA great David Robinson and NBA television analyst Kenny Smith. 

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