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Milwaukee Bucks assistant GM Jeff Weltman was a finalist for the Phoenix Suns vacant general manager position, along with San Antonio Assistant GM Scott Layden and Boston’s Ryan McDonough.
The Suns on Tuesday, picked the 33-year old McDonough, who has worked the past three seasons under Celtics president Danny Ainge.
Weltman was also a finalist for the Suns position three years ago. He’s been working under Bucks General Manager John Hammond since 2008.
Former Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Kelvin Sampson is scheduled to interview for
Kelvin Sampson / Photo: Kevin Jairaj-USA Today Sports
the team’s head coaching job on Thursday.
Sampson is an assistant coach in Houston with the Rockets. Houston’s season ended in the first round of the playoffs against Oklahoma City.
Sampson served as a head coach in the collegiate ranks at Washington State, Oklahoma and most recently Indiana. He left the Hoosiers after two years after a telephone recruiting scandal.
Sampson was then hired by San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich and then Milwaukee’s Scott Skiles.
The Bucks are also expected to talk with former Seattle and Portland coach Nate McMillan. McMillan has already talked with the Detroit Pistons and is considered to be one of the leading candidates there.
The Bucks fired interim coach Jim Boylan and are looking for their 13th head coach in franchise history.
While the Milwaukee Bucks search for the teams next head coach, another team has joined the mix, looking to fill a vacancy.
The Brooklyn Nets are looking for a new head coach after letting interim coach P.J. Carlisimo know that he would not be returning after a 49-33 record. The Nets were eliminated from post season play in game 7 of their first round series with Chicago.
The Bucks are still looking for Jim Boylan’s replacement but say they won’t be rushed. At least five teams, including the Bucks, are now low looking for a new head coach.
The Milwaukee Bucks are competing for a new head coach with the likes of Phoenix,
John Hammond
Philadelphia, Charlotte and Detroit. Yet the teams General Manager, John Hammond said they are not in a hurry to hire the teams 13th head coach in franchise history.
The Bucks informed interim coach Jim Boylan yesterday that he would not be back next season. Boylan, who took over for Scott Skiles on January 8th, went 22-32 (including playoffs) as the Bucks were swept out of the Eastern Conference Playoffs in 4-games by Miami. [Read more...]
The Milwaukee Bucks have opened the search for a new head coach after informing Jim Boylan that he would not be offered a new contract. The
Jim Boylan
decision was made after General Manager John Hammond met with Boylan this morning at the Bucks Training Center in St. Francis, Wis.
Boylan compiled a 22-28 record (.440) after replacing Scott Skiles as head coach on Jan. 8. The Bucks were swept by Miami in the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs, 4-0.
The 58-year-old Boylan had been the lead assistant coach for the Bucks the past four seasons, joining the team after finishing the final 56 games (24-32, .429) of the 2007-08 season as the interim head coach of the Chicago Bulls.
His NBA coaching career began in 1992 with Cleveland. He also served as an assistant with Vancouver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Chicago.
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