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After leading the Ateneo Blue Eagles to four straight championship, Norman Black might be headed to a different direction. He is set to make a return to the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) as a coaching rigodon is expected to be formalized this month involving teams bankrolled by business tycoon-sportsman Manny V. Pangilinan.
The arrangement will include coach Chot Reyes moving over to the Smart Gilas national team from Talk ‘N Text in the PBA. But there’s a catch. A source privy to the details of the arrangement said that even after the deal is made official, it will only be put in motion after the 2012 UAAP season. Black will move to the Talk ‘N Text camp while Reyes will replace Serbian Rajko Toroman, who was offered the consultant’s post at Smart Gilas after serving as its head coach.
Black was supposed to assume the Talk ‘N Text post after leading the Blue Eagles to a school record fourth straight UAAP crown. But the school, the source said, asked that the move be deferred because there was too little time to find a replacement for Black as the Eagles shoot for a fifth consecutive crown.
Black made the Blue Eagles the first team in the past decade to string up four straight UAAP titles and only the fourth school to achieve that string of triumphs. (www.inq.net)