As OnMilwaukee.com's Jeff Sherman tweeted last night, former NBA player Greg Foster is indeed returning to the Milwaukee Bucks as an assistant coach under Jason Kidd.
Foster was a player development coach with the Philadelphia 76ers last season, and earlier today CSNPhilly.com reported that Foster is earning a promotion by joining the Bucks as a full assistant.
Philadelphia president and general manager Sam Hinkie told CSNPhilly.com that "We hate to lose him, but we don't want to stand in the way of people when opportunities present themselves."
A source close to the situation in Milwaukee confirmed Foster is now on staff.
Greg Foster to #Bucks as an assistant. Like it! Son's in high school. To play in area, I hear. Welcome back to MKE, Fosters!
— Jeff Sherman (@ShermanJeff) July 31, 2014
Foster retired from the NBA after 13 seasons in 2003, two of which were spent in Milwaukee (1993-94, 2001-02). He won a championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001 and played in two other NBA Finals while with the Utah Jazz.
Prior to joining the 76ers, Foster spent three seasons at the University of Texas-El Paso, the first of which was as a student assistant coach while he finished his bachelor’s degree.
Foster joins a staff that already includes Sean Sweeney, Eric Hughes and Joe Prunty, who served under Kidd in Brooklyn last year.
Jim Owczarski is an award-winning sports journalist and comes to Milwaukee by way of the Chicago Sun-Times Media Network.
A three-year Wisconsin resident who has considered Milwaukee a second home for the better part of seven years, he brings to the market experience covering nearly all major and college sports.
To this point in his career, he has been awarded six national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and projects. He is also a four-time nominee for the prestigious Peter J. Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism, presented by the Chicago Headline Club, and is a two-time winner for Best Sports Story. He has also won numerous other Illinois Press Association, Illinois Associated Press and Northern Illinois Newspaper Association awards.
Jim's career started in earnest as a North Central College (Naperville, Ill.) senior in 2002 when he received a Richter Fellowship to cover the Chicago White Sox in spring training. He was hired by the Naperville Sun in 2003 and moved on to the Aurora Beacon News in 2007 before joining OnMilwaukee.com.
In that time, he has covered the events, news and personalities that make up the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, NCAA football, baseball and men's and women's basketball as well as boxing, mixed martial arts and various U.S. Olympic teams.
Golf aficionados who venture into Illinois have also read Jim in GOLF Chicago Magazine as well as the Chicago District Golfer and Illinois Golfer magazines.
