GRAND RAPIDS — Former University of Tennessee men’s basketball coach Donnie Tyndall is having some modest success as a head coach in the minor leagues of professional basketball.
Tyndall, who coached the Volunteers during the 2014-2015 season before being fired after receiving a show cause penalty by the NCAA for violations committed while he was at the University of Southern Mississippi, is in his first year as head coach of the Grand Rapids Drive of the National Basketball Association’s G-League.
Grand Rapids is the minor league affiliate of the Detroit Pistons.
One of the players on the Drive’s current roster is former Tennessee player Jordan Bone. Bone, a rookie, was a second-round pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.
Grand Rapids is 11-10 this season and seventh in the G-League’s Eastern Conference standings.