DALLAS – Rick Carlisle started his pre-game press conference Sunday by answering a question about his long-time friend, Michael H. Goldberg, who died Saturday.
Goldberg served as the executive director of the National Basketball Coaches Association form 1980-2005.
"It's a really tough loss personally,’’ Carlisle, the Dallas Mavericks’ coach, said. "I've worked very closely with him for 12 years.
"He's been our executive director for the Coaches Association since 1980 and I took over as president in 2005. So to try to put it into a few words what he's meant to our association and to me personally would be impossible here.