Dunleavy Steps Down As Head Coach

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Dunleavy Steps Down As Head Coach

The Los Angeles Clippers today announced that Head Coach and General Manager Mike Dunleavy will step away from his day to day coaching responsibilities and focus exclusively on the team’s personnel matters.

The decision was reached mutually during a meeting at the team’s Playa Vista Training Center on Thursday. In attendance at that meeting were Clippers’ President Andy Roeser, Dunleavy and Assistant General Manager Neil Olshey, who will continue in his role as Dunleavy’s top aide in Basketball Operations.

Current Clippers’ Assistant Coach Kim Hughes will immediately assume the role of Interim Head Coach, and will retain the position through the remainder of the ’09-’10 season.

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Kinda surprising considering the Clippers were finally starting to show some life, but they did have a setback with their No.1 pick in Blake Griffin going down for the season. However, they seem to have a few young pieces in place that could be making some noise in this league in no time.