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Marc Stin: UPDATE: Both Phil Handy and Popeye Jones have agreed to join Jason Kidd’s coaching staff in Dallas, league sources tell @TheSteinLine and @DLLS_Sports . Handy and Jones will join Jay Triano as newcomers … with Mavs coaching consultant Frank Vogel now Kidd’s associate head coach.
Marc Stein: Jason Kidd will now have two former NBA head coaches on his Mavs staff next season: Frank Vogel and Jay Triano. Vogel still has three seasons left on his Suns HC deal. Denver is in advanced talks to hire Dallas' Jared Dudley to be No. 1 assistant to Nuggets coach David Adelman.
Marc Stein: Jay Triano replaced new U of Utah coach Alex Jensen. Jared Dudley is a Memphis finalist and sought by Cleveland ... with league sources saying the Grizz seek a lead assistant who can forge a strong connection with Ja Morant. God Shammgod, as close as anyone in Dallas to Kyrie Irving, has strong interest from Orlando. More: http://tinyurl.com/34ecpwua
According to a league source, Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison made it clear to Triano during the process that Kidd would remain the head coach. Triano, the league source said, agreed to terms on the assistant position on Tuesday. NBA reporter Jake Fischer was first to report on the Mavericks’ interest in Triano.
The Dallas Mavericks have agreed to terms with Jay Triano to join Jason Kidd’s coaching staff, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to The Dallas Morning News. Triano will become the second-lead assistant on the bench behind Sean Sweeney, the person confirmed. Jared Dudley is also a front-of-the-bench assistant on Kidd’s staff.
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Sam Amick: Worth noting that Triano - the former Raptors, Suns and Canadian team head coach - still had time left on his deal. Jawad Williams, Riccardo Fois, Robbie Lemons and Sam Logwood also out, per sources.
Anthony Slater: The Kings will not retain lead assistant Jay Triano as part of Doug Christie’s staff, sources tell me and @Sam_Amick. Continues organizational overhaul: Jawad Williams and three other assistants also out. Leandro Barbosa will remain as part of Christie’s reworked staff.
Sean Cunningham: Mike Brown said the Jay Triano, who is the assistant head coach, will continue to run Kings offense. Doug Christie and Luke Loucks are co-second assistants with Loucks taking on the defensive coach role that Jordi Fernandez occupied before departing to Brooklyn.
Marc J. Spears: The Kings say Jay Triano has been promoted to associate head coach. Jawad Williams has been elevated to assistant coach/director of player development. Charles Allen has been promoted to player development coach. Riccardo Fois and Jim Moran have been named assistant coaches.
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Sean Cunningham: Kings coaching staff changes: Jay Triano promoted to associate head coach. Jawad Williams now assistant coach/director of player development & Charles Allen promoted to player development coach. Dipesh Mistrywill now serve as head video coordinator/development coach. Riccardo Fois and Jim Moran have been named assistant coaches.
The team boasts a carousel of long-limbed athletes of all shapes and sizes: power-based wing stoppers in RJ Barrett, Dillon Brooks, Lu Dort, and Ejim; more rangy and nimble point-of-attack defenders in SGA, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, and Andrew Nembhard. Frontcourt size and depth are the team’s most apparent deficits; the team has no natural rim protector, and its bigs are among the oldest players on the roster. “We can be dominant at a bunch of positions, but everybody’s going to have to be involved in the rebounding,” Triano, who has coached alongside Fernández on the Kings bench over the past two seasons, said. “We’re going to have to play faster than most teams. A lot of teams have a lot more size. So let’s spread ’em out, and let’s speed ’em up and down the court and be the quicker and more aggressive team. I really trust Jordi with coming up with ideas and schemes with the roster the way that it is.”
The Sacramento Kings sent a strategic chauffeur to the airport late Saturday morning to bring DeMar DeRozan back to their downtown facility. When DeRozan stepped off the plane, he was met by Jay Triano, the Kings’ lead assistant coach who also happens to be DeRozan’s first NBA head coach. Triano remembered the last time he was included in a high-stakes meeting regarding DeRozan’s future. It was 2009, the pre-draft process. Triano and Toronto Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo flew to Oakland, Calif., to watch DeRozan work out. They were so impressed that they promised DeRozan afterward, if he was available at the ninth pick, they’d select him. Don’t worry about working out for anybody 10th or later. Promise kept.
The Sacramento Kings announced today the members of Head Coach Mike Brown’s coaching staff for the 2022-23 season. Jordi Fernandez has been named associate head coach. Jay Triano, Doug Christie, Luke Loucks and Leandro Barbosa will serve as assistant coaches.
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