by Dick Weiss, for The American
NEW ORLEANS -- Mike Dunleavy, who played in the NBA for seven years and coached five different teams in the league for 16 more, looked like a pro basketball lifer. He played in the NBA Finals as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers and Houston Rockets, coached the Los Angeles Lakers to the 1990 finals, was selected NBA Coach the Year in 1999 at Portland, and spent seven years as head coach with the Los Angeles Clippers until 2010.
Then, he disappeared, working on Wall Street until 2016 when he got the coaching itch, resurfacing as the new head coach of Tulane, trying to restart an emerging program in The American.