1.   Although he is now the president of basketball operations of the Wizards, Jordan will not leave Chicago.

2.   An NBA conference call Thursday featured league commissioner David Stern and Stu Jackson, senior vice president of basketball operations, talking about the upcoming playoffs.

3.   An NBA team is on the gurney, rolling to the emergency room, and you have been hired as its vice president of basketball operations.

4.   Another scout, Indiana vice president of basketball operations Billy Knight, said he liked Freeman but would not project where he would be taken.

5.   As Bird began talking about his eagerness to get involved with coaching and basketball operations, Carr penned notes to himself.

6.   Associate head coach Jeff Ray will be in charge of basketball operations during the transition.

7.   Based on what we heard Monday, there will be nothing new in the basketball operation next year.

8.   Between those jobs, Newton worked as the director of basketball operations for the Southeastern Conference.

9.   Bird, a special assistant, made it clear that he had become bored with watching daily basketball operations from afar.

10.   According to rumor, Jerry Krause, vice president of basketball operations for the Chicago Bulls, has cancelled his voice-mail service.