Coach Brook Steppe May Join Gwizzlies Coaching Staff
Published on September 1, 2004 under American Basketball Association (ABA)
Atlanta Vision News Release
Former Georgia Tech star and the 17th ballplayer drafted in the first round of the 1982 NBA draft,and now coach, Brook Steppe, who lives in Atlanta may be on the Gwinnett Gwizzlies coaching staff when the training camp/media day opens on October 29.
"This is professional basketball and Coaches and ballplayers move up and move on, so change is daily and constant in this line of work" says Embry Malone, Gwizzlies CEO/Owner. "One afternoon at Pepperdine right after graduation we were playing pickup basketball and the University President Dr.William Banowsky surprisingly walk through the gym and hollered out to me , 'Hey Coach!.' The next morning Head Coach Gary Colson called me into his office and ask me what was I going to do now, since I graduated. I said I had a job interview with a bank. Colson said would you like to be one of my assistants next season," Malone Recalls.
The Gwizzlies organization are stocking up on ballplayers and Coaching personel in a quest for an ABA title in the 2004-2005 season.
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American Basketball Association Stories from September 1, 2004
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