Alabama hires Avery Johnson as basketball coach

Alabama announced Monday night it had hired Avery Johnson to fill its coaching vacancy. The terms of Johnson's contract won't be released until it's approved by the board of trustees' compensation committee.

Johnson had stints as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks and New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets, but this is his first college coaching job.

Johnson was the NBA Coach of the Year in 2006 after leading the Mavericks to their first NBA Finals appearance. He was fired by the Nets in December 2012 after the team went into a slump and had been working as an ESPN analyst since then.