Being a talented assistant is like being a popular backup quarterback: everyone loves you until you become the starter.

He was Hubie Brown's talented assistant with the Knicks, when the call from Providence came in the waning days of the 1984-85 season.

I'm not sure whether to be sorry or glad that Solly left all the details of the fabulous Mark 13 to his talented assistant.

However, the story is complicated when a woman sniper Tania Chernova becomes one of Vasily's most talented assistants, and Zaitzev's battlefield lover.

Different forces have brought down the league's dynasties through the years, including age and the defection of talented assistants.

Eventually it was patched together by one of his less talented assistants.

Jim Cleamons, the talented assistant and defensive specialist, will leave to coach the Dallas Mavericks.

And it is not unusual for the most talented assistants to find themselves prosecuting major high-profile trials before turning 30.

Even more important is their influence on the talented young assistants who have gone on to head the art departments of scores of magazines.

He has become a veritable mastermind who has been to India and has gathered around him a coterie of equally talented assistants.