Cleamons Talks Discipline

Jim Cleamons can’t bring Michael Jordan with him from the Chicago Bulls.

But the new Dallas Mavericks coach with the four NBA championship diamond rings as a Bulls assistant hopes to dish out discipline, teamwork and winning ways to a longtime loser.

“Discipline is the cornerstone of my life and that’s what I think life is all about,” Cleamons said.

Discipline will help on a team that was in disarray last year because of a feud between Jason Kidd and Jim Jackson.

Cleamons, 47, is only the sixth coach in 16 years for the Mavericks. Dallas is 136-356 in the 1990s.

There were reports Cleamons got a four-year deal, but he wouldn’t confirm the length of his contract or the terms.