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Jorge Sierra: Anthony Davis passed Isiah Thomas in scoring yesterday for No. 69 all-time. Fellow Mav Klay Thompson moved ahead of Juwan Howard for No. 122. Devin Booker moves up another spot (No. 131) after passing Detlef Schrempf.

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NBA on ESPN: Some NBA legends spotted at the US Open 🎾🏀 ⭐ Tracy McGrady ⭐ Jalen Rose ⭐ Juwan Howard ⭐ Dwyane Wade pic.x.com/9ofmpgo1uv

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Bisaccio, 34, spent last season as a Heat player development coach and has spent the past three weeks as the Heat’s summer league head coach. “I’ve been a part of a variety of different coaches and different summer leagues — Dan Craig, Juwan Howard, Chris Quinn, Malik Allen and most recently Caron Butler,” said Bisaccio, who was also recently named the head coach of the Heat’s G League affiliate. “All of these guys, I’ve had the opportunity to learn and grow from and really see how they handle their day to day. “They’re tasking me with being able to give a lot of these players their first introduction to the Miami Heat organization, the Miami Heat culture and that’s something I do not take lightly. I’m honored every day to be able to have this opportunity.”

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The team formed a “robust” offseason program for players and has leaned more heavily on newly hired assistants such as Steve Hetzel, Fernandez’s lead man on the bench who is currently serving as head coach of the summer league team, and Juwan Howard, whose reputation speaks for itself. "It’s been great,” second-year forward Jalen Wilson said of Hetzel’s leadership in Fernandez’s absence. “His intensity, his attention to detail, I feel like [he has]everything we need to advance this summer. From Day 1 he’s been high energy, wanting to get guys better in all different aspects — watching film, on the court. So, I think it’s been great to have him around, to be able to pick his brain, and for us to be coached by him this summer is a great opportunity.”

New York Daily News

Anthony Puccio: Nets have named Steve Hetzel, Juwan Howard, Deividas Dulkys, Connor Griffin and Travis Bader as assistant coaches on Head Coach Jordi Fernández’s staff. They join Jay Hernandez, Adam Caporn, Ryan Forehan-Kelly and Corey Vinson.

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Michael Scotto: Sources: Nets will have Steve Hetzel (lead assistant), Juwan Howard and Jay Hernandez on the front bench of Jordi Fernandez’s staff. Kevin Ollie, Will Weaver and Ronnie Burrell won’t return. Ollie was interim coach. Weaver (2019) and Burrell (2023) won G League Coach of the Year pic.twitter.com/NZ6cUzsl9r

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Adrian Wojnarowski: ESPN Sources: Juwan Howard has agreed to join the Brooklyn Nets as an assistant coach. Howard spent six NBA seasons as a Heat assistant before returning to Michigan for five years as head coach. Howard arrives as part of Jordi Fernandez’s first staff. pic.twitter.com/RMjNVgpiel

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Howard says he’ll likely be at a men’s game next season to support his former players. His son Jace could still be on the team. He’ll be at graduation in the spring. As far as work goes, Howard has no immediate plans. “I’m going to focus on my health,” he says. “I’m still in (rehabilitative) therapy. That’s my main priority. I’m not where I want to be health-wise, but I’m getting there.” He will, in time, return to coaching, most likely in the NBA. “This is not the end, and it will not be the end-all, be-all of my coaching career,” he says.

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Howard told his wife, Jenine, that it was no big deal. He tried to believe that, too, but the day after his MRI, Howard learned that blood clots were found in his lungs and an unruptured aneurysm was discovered in his aorta. The blood clots, he says, were saving his life. Howard was placed on medications and waited 14 weeks for the surgery, thinking every day that the aneurysm might burst. “I was scared,” Howard says. “But I never admitted that. I didn’t show it in front of my wife or my family, and I never showed it in front of my staff.”

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Howard’s surgery was canceled and he declined to reschedule it in-season, against doctors’ recommendations and to Jenine’s displeasure. The surgery is scheduled for April 19. Doctors never advised Howard to take off the entire 2023-24 season, but implored him not to come back early. He did precisely that. “You can allow your competitiveness and take control over, you know, what you know in your heart,” Howard says. “If I could go back and do it all over again, I would’ve taken time off to really get help. I should’ve listened more to the doctors and my wife. There were days that I wouldn’t get any sleep and could barely get out of bed, but I’d go in there and try to act like I was fine.”

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Howard was told by Manuel to enter an anger management program during a five-game suspension. Howard agreed and met with a counselor. “After two sessions, she told me, ‘You don’t need anger management,'” he says. “Seriously. I wouldn’t bullsh— you.” Howard says he is not a violent person, but understands why perceptions around him changed severely after Wisconsin. “It hurt me in a lot of ways,” he says. “I know that’s part of the ‘angry Black man’ perception that’s out there. It left people with a perception that anything I do — whether it’s get a technical, which, a lot of coaches get technicals, or the situation with Jon, where you hear his side of it and his lawyer’s side of it — anything I’m involved in, it’s Juwan who started it.”

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Pete Thamel: Michigan announces that head coach Juwan Howard will not return next season.

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A national search to replace Howard — who had two years and roughly $7 million remaining on his contract but will receive a $3 million buyout — will begin immediately.

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Jorge Sierra: ALL-TIME SCORING RANKINGS James Harden passed The Logo for No. 23 in NBA history last night. Kyrie Irving is now No. 115 after moving past Juwan Howard. Also... Nikola Vucevic is now ahead of BILL RUSSELL at No. 166. pic.twitter.com/5onaWSvHhv

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