The Plastic Man. NCAA champion. Solid 17-year NBA career. Most recently, UNLV assistant coach.
Stacey Augmon is all of that — and now he may be an assistant coach for Jason Kidd with the Milwaukee Bucks, reports Marc Stein of ESPN.
Story going online now: Milwaukee is closing in on the addition of Stacey Augmon to the Bucks' coaching staff, according to league sources.
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) September 7, 2016
Kidd goes with people he knows and trusts as assistants.
One of Augmon’s great attributes as a player was his wingspan — he was long and used that to his defensive advantage (hence the “plastic man” nickname). He comes to a team known for being young and long with Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, Michael Carter-Williams and others. You can’t teach length, but maybe you can teach how to use it.
Augmon had a long career playing for Atlanta, Detroit, Portland, Charlotte, New Orleans, and Orlando, and he averaged 8 points a game over the course of his career (the high was 14.8 a game with the Hawks in 1993-94). As a coach, he was a player development specialist with the Nuggets for a while. He left there to become an assistant coach at his alma mater, UNLV.