Sports Joseph Zucker @@JosephZucker Featured Columnist IV June 18, 2024
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Jeff Van Gundy is returning to the NBA teaching ranks.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported the 62-year-old agreed to a deal making him the lead assistant for Ty Lue on the Los Angeles Clippers.
Van Gundy final coached in 2006-07 with the Houston Rockets. In 11 seasons between his time in Houston and with the Original York Knicks, he had a .575 successful percentage and made the playoffs 9 instances.
Following his ouster from the Rockets, Van Gundy pivoted to a broadcasting career. He labored for ESPN for 16 years, rising to turn out to be a lead analyst on NBA games. The network let him trail in June 2023 amid wider layoffs.
All by his hiatus from NBA teaching, Van Gundy led the US males’s national team on the 2017 FIBA AmeriCup, where Personnel USA obtained gold, after which stayed on to wait on the U.S. steady qualification for the 2019 FIBA World Cup.
Van Gundy coached Lue temporarily on the Rockets in 2004-05 and they’ve crossed paths by the national team. Lue is an assistant on Steve Kerr’s personnel, and JVG stayed on as a scout as soon as his teaching tenure got right here to an live.
NBA insider Marc Stein reported on June 2 the Boston Celtics became as soon as thinking about Van Gundy as a candidate to interchange the outgoing Charles Lee as an assistant to Joe Mazzulla. He labored in Boston’s basketball operations division this season, so it will’ve been a seamless transition to have him have faith the void left by Lee, who permitted the Charlotte Hornets’ teaching emptiness.
Stein adopted up final Friday to memoir the Clippers were believed to be main the speed for Van Gundy’s products and companies. Beyond his past abilities with Lue, he reportedly had a “colossal admirer” in L.A. president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank.