{"id":230802,"date":"2009-05-18T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/05\/18\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T23:11:10","slug":"zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Zgoda talks to Penn&#8217;s agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs2.startribune.com\/blogs\/wolves\/2009\/05\/18\/penns-agent-explains\/\">Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune:<\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>Just got Tom Penn\u2019s agent, Warren LeGarie, on the phone and here\u2019s the essence of what he said:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said the Wolves did offer the job and he said negotiations were progressing until the Trail Blazers made what he called a \u201cfull-court press\u201d last night in an attempt to keep Penn, hired in 2007, in Portland with a promotion that will include a new title and a new, enhanced contract.<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>Asked if Glen Taylor\u2019s wanting to keep Kevin McHale as coach was a determining factor, he said, \u201cThat was not an issue that had come up. It was never pushed down Tom\u2019s throat. We had not gotten to that part in our discussions yet. We thought we were progressing but there were some issues going back and forth.\u201d<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>He said\u00a0 the decision inevitably was an emotional one for his client.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune: Just got Tom Penn\u2019s agent, Warren LeGarie, on the phone and here\u2019s the essence of what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605037453],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zgoda talks to Penn&#039;s agent - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zgoda talks to Penn&#8217;s agent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-18T23:11:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Zgoda talks to Penn&#8217;s agent\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-18T23:11:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-05-18T23:11:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/\"},\"wordCount\":154,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"TWolves Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2009\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zgoda-talks-to-penns-agent\/\",\"name\":\"Zgoda talks to Penn's agent - 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