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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Tony Barone Sr. will finish the season as the Memphis Grizzlies' coach, then return to the front office as director of player personnel.
Barone agreed to replace Mike Fratello on Thursday a couple hours after Jerry West, the team's president of basketball operations, fired the franchise's winningest coach. West said Barone has an extensive basketball background even though he has never been a head coach in the NBA.
"When he leaves here as a coach, he is going to go back to the front office and his position where he is, and he will have a better feel going forward what we need as a team," West said Friday at a news conference.
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