Avery Johnson tells story of how he became Alabama's new basketball coach

Posted Apr 8, 2015
It started with a message from Bill Battle. Avery Johnson was intrigued. Out of coaching more than two years, the former NBA champion's name had been floated for other jobs. Johnson already had the itch when the Alabama athletics director reached out last Thursday. Only a day earlier, the Crimson Tide publicly lost its bid to land Gregg Marshall from Wichita State. It didn't take long for the search to narrow again. (AL.com)

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