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Do you have any interest in the Cleveland Cavaliers head coaching job? Mark Price: I would definitely be interested in the job, but they have not contacted me. Stepien Rules

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Brendan Bowers: I called Mark Price, asked abt his interest in #Cavs job. MP: "I would definitely be interested in the job, but they have not contacted me." Twitter @BowersCLE

Cleveland Cavaliers, Coaching, Mark Price 

Toward the end of shootaround Friday, Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash approached Dwight Howard and offered up a couple of tips on how to shoot free throws. Though Howard is shooting just 46.9 percent from the foul line this season, while Nash is tied with Mark Price for the best free throw percentage in NBA history at 90.4 percent, the Lakers center said he's had enough of people giving him advice. "Listen, he was just suggesting some things, but it's not something that we've already talked about or anybody else has suggested," Howard said. "My mind cannot get clouded with everybody telling me how to shoot a free throw. I just have to go up there and shoot it my way and not get caught up in what everybody else is saying, because that's when I miss." ESPN.com

Los Angeles Lakers, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Mark Price 

The Magic wanted 6-foot-11 big man Magnum Rolle to play on their summer-league team, but Rolle suffered a scary fall in a practice Friday and suffered concussion-like symptoms. It's unclear whether he will be able to play for Orlando this week, Price said. Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Magic, Free Agency, Summer League, Injuries, Magnum Rolle, Mark Price 

Steve Kyler: Mark Price will be the coach of the Orlando Magic Summer League team... Twitter

Orlando Magic, Coaching, Summer League, Mark Price 

Howard's confidence has been rocked. He practiced his free throws last summer, hiring Ed Palubinskas, who bills himself as "The Shooting Surgeon General." Well, Price, 47, has had to do some reconstructive surgery on Howard's mechanics. "We're making a few changes here and there," Price said. Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Magic, Dwight Howard, Mark Price 

Pat Williams: The #OrlandoMagic name Mark Price as player development coach President of Basketball Operations/GM Otis Smith officially announced today. Twitter

Orlando Magic, Mark Price 

It appears that the Orlando Magic are adding arguably the greatest free-throw shooter in NBA history to their staff. Cleveland’s Plain Dealer is reporting, via Twitter, that four-time NBA All-Star and former Magic point guard Mark Price is expected to be named the Magic’s “player development/shooting coach.” Last season, Price served as the shooting coach for the Golden State Warriors. In the two seasons before that, he was a shooting consultant for the Atlanta Hawks. Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Magic, Coaching, Mark Price 

Talent scouts believe Jimmer Fredette will fail unless he plays for a team that'll let him shoot as much as he wants, so he has apparently found a great nesting place in Sacramento. "They said the same thing about Mark Price," said one GM, noting how he fell to the second round. "That's who Jimmer reminds of, and, I seem to recall, he didn't do too badly." New York Post

Sacramento Kings, Draft, Mark Price, Jimmer Fredette 

Nash posted 23 points, 16 assists and seven rebounds and continued a streak of 48 consecutive made free throws to push him past Mark Price for the best career free-throw percentage in NBA history (90.4). "I looked up to Mark as a young player so that's obviously a thrill," Nash said. "It's been a tough season so it's not No. 1 on my list right now. We've got a lot of work to do so it's overshadowed by this uphill battle we have to wage." Arizona Republic

Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash, Mark Price 

Bruce Kreutzer is the man at the equipment’s controls for Sandoval, a former college point guard and Dominican Republic national team player who is aiming for a spot in the N.B.A. Development League. He has fallen into a parade of professionals who have wound their way to the Suwanee Sports Academy, 35 miles northeast of Atlanta. The academy caters primarily to youngsters in several indoor sports, mostly basketball. A small section tucked off to the side is a minigymnasium less than a halfcourt in length. It has a low ceiling, mirrored walls and a scruffy floor. A sign identifies it as the Mark Price Shooting Lab, whose namesake and director needed no machines or technology to become an N.B.A. dead-eye. “I call it the A.A. of shooting,” said Price, 46, a retired four-time All-Star who is the most accurate free-throw shooter in N.B.A. history (.904) and is 23rd in career 3-point percentage (.402). Through computer-generated video and stills, he said, “You show them, and they go, ‘I’ve got a problem.’ ” New York Times

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The lab’s most renowned problem case was Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo, whose transcendent 2009-10 season was in small part a result of Price’s handiwork. Rondo arrived with a host of maladies — a flying elbow, which he neglected to keep tucked in; imbalance because of poor foot placement; and a habit of bringing the ball too far back before launching. Two dozen N.B.A. players, former gym rats all, have become Price’s lab rats in the off-season, along with others from the Development League, for which Kreutzer, the lab shooting coach and operator, is a consultant. New York Times

Boston Celtics, Rajon Rondo, Mark Price 

Not all participants’ identities are disclosed; some consider the sessions a form of rehabilitation that deserve privacy. Thaddeus Young, one of several Philadelphia 76ers to take part, said by telephone that he came out of the lab an improved, though not finished, product (his 2-point shooting is up this season, his 3-point shooting is down). Young’s shot was partly retooled, with emphasis on positioning his feet. He offers an unsolicited endorsement. New York Times

Philadelphia 76ers, Mark Price, Thaddeus Young 

The Warriors are trying to decide whether to promote from within -- for example, move Calbert Chaney up a seat and make shooting coach Mark Price a full-time assistant -- or go find help from outside. Part of problem is that Smart gave Silas quite a bit of responsibility and he has the closest rapport with the players of any current assistant coach. San Jose Mercury-News

Golden State Warriors, Coaching, Mark Price 

Tim Kawakami: Multiple sources: Warriors set to add Jerry SIchting as an assistant coach and Mark Price as a consultant. Twitter

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