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Longtime NBA coach Stan Albeck dies at 89 in hospice care

SAN ANTONIO -- Stan Albeck, the former San Antonio, Cleveland, New Jersey and Chicago head coach during a long NBA career, died Thursday in hospice care at son John's home. He was 89.

John Albeck told the San Antonio Express-News his father entered hospice care Thursday after having a stroke March 14. He also had a stroke in 2001 while he was an assistant coach with Toronto.

Albeck coached the ABA's Denver Rockets in 1970-71, then directed Cleveland in 1979-80, San Antonio from 1980 to '83, New Jersey from 1983 to '85 and Chicago in 1985-86 -- with Michael Jordan in his second season.