{"id":24488,"date":"2014-10-14T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/liberty-wont-bring-back-laimbeer\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T12:16:00","slug":"liberty-wont-bring-back-laimbeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/liberty-wont-bring-back-laimbeer\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty won&#8217;t bring back Laimbeer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Liberty will not renew the contract of Bill Laimbeer, ending his tenure as the team&#8217;s general manager and head coach.<\/p>\n<p>In two seasons under Laimbeer, the Liberty posted a 26-42 record (.382). This past season, New York went 15-19 and lost a tiebreaker to Chicago for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank Bill for his hard work and contributions to the New York Liberty,&#8221; said Allan Houston, the New York Knicks&#8217; assistant general manager who also oversees Liberty basketball operations. &#8220;The Liberty are a proud original member of the WNBA, with a loyal and passionate fan base. We will begin our search immediately to secure a general manager and coach to help us move forward and reach our ultimate goal of a WNBA championship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laimbeer was brought into New York two years ago to replace John Whisenant, who had a 34-34 mark in two seasons with the club.<\/p>\n<p>From 2002-09, Laimbeer served as general manager and head coach of the Detroit Shock &#8212; the franchise is now based in Tulsa &#8212; and captured WNBA titles in 2003, 2006 and 2008. The Shock posted a 137-93 record during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>A 14-year NBA veteran, Laimbeer was a member of the Detroit Pistons teams that won back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Liberty will not renew the contract of Bill Laimbeer, ending his tenure as the team&#8217;s general manager and head coach. In two seasons under Laimbeer, the Liberty posted a 26-42 record (.382). This past season, New York went 15-19 and lost a tiebreaker to Chicago for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}