rest - http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci...experience-nbaInterim coach generating wins, support in quest to take over Nuggets full time
When news that Melvin Hunt had been named Nuggets interim head coach reached Sharon Dawson, she cried. Cried tears of joy. Hunt had always been one of her favorites.
It had been that way from the first day they met, after Sharon's husband, Carroll, hired the fresh-faced assistant from Incarnate Word in San Antonio to his first pro gig as video coordinator with the Houston Rockets in 1999.
This was a day she and many, many other longtime friends were certain would arrive — even if his promotion was less than ideal, Hunt taking over on an interim basis for Brian Shaw, who was fired March 3.
"I actually thought he would get the job (in 2013)," said Carroll Dawson, who spent 27 years with the Rockets as an assistant coach and general manager, and put together championship teams in 1994 and 1995. "I just hope that they see what we saw in him, and that they make that permanent."