[ESPN NBA Guru] Mavs add Avery Johnson to bench as coach

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Johnson will be emergency backup at guardDALLAS -- Here's a rare scene: The Dallas Mavericks held a news conference Thursday to announce the signing of a player who proclaimed that if all goes as planned, he won't play a single minute this season. And his bosses happily agreed. So goes the hiring of Avery Johnson, technically as a backup
point guard but realistically as another coach -- possibly even the
next head coach. Johnson will spend the season on the injured list, unless a real
injury to Jason Terry,...

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