Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Houston hired former Celtics coach Ime Udoka last month.This article needs additional citations for verification. There are five current coaching vacancies in Phoenix, Milwaukee, Toronto, Philadelphia and Detroit. Nurse reportedly is a candidate for the Bucks head coach job. The Bucks were the top overall seed this postseason. The Bucks fired Budenholzer after Miami eliminated Milwaukee in the first round of the playoffs, just two seasons removed from winning the 2021 NBA Finals over Phoenix under him. One of the NBA’s best coaches, Lue is under contract with the Clippers. Two names that are not on the list are Tyronn Lue and Mike Budenholzer.Īfter Williams was fired, Marc Stein tweeted the Suns were “expected to explore the feasibility of trying to lure” Lue away from the Clippers. Toronto posted a 41-41 record and lost in the play-in tournament. The Lakers fired Vogel after the 2021-22 season when they finished 33-49 while the Raptors and Nurse parted ways after this season. The Suns won a franchise-record 64 games that regular season. Williams was out after testing positive for COVID-19. Young also coached four games for Williams in the 2021-22 regular season, going 2-2. Nurse coached the Raptors to the 2019 championship while Vogel did the same with the Lakers in the Orlando Bubble in 2020.įernandez was a head coach in the G League for the Canton Charge (2014-16) while Young served as a head coach for the Utah Flash (2010-11), Iowa Energy (2011-13) and Delaware 87ers (2014-16). Rivers coached the Celtics to the 2008 championship and 2010 finals while Nurse and Vogel won it in back-to-back seasons. 1-seeded Denver in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals.

The Suns fired Monty Williams two days after their season ended with a 25-point home loss to No. The Athletic’s Shams Charania tweeted out that list while ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted out that Nurse, Rivers, Fernandez and Young will meet the Suns for interviews “in the coming days.” The Phoenix Suns have five finalists – Nick Nurse, Frank Vogel, Doc Rivers, Sacramento Kings assistant Jordi Fernandez and Suns associate head coach Kevin Young – for their head coaching job, sources confirmed Tuesday night to The Republic. The other two were head coaches in the G League. Three of them have won NBA titles as head coaches. View Gallery: Phoenix Suns head coach candidates in photos

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