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Monty earned his shot at NBA

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Mike Montgomery is leaving a Hall of Fame career at Stanford for the graveyard of college coaches who've failed to make the jump to the NBA. Why? Why not? "We talked (Thursday) morning and last week about this and I told him, 'You're not going to coach at another college, so why not finish your coaching in the NBA,' " said Old Dominion coach Blaine Taylor, a former Montgomery assistant at Stanford. "He's just turning a different way out of his driveway. "This has zero impact on his years at ...

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