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Report: Warriors hiring two new assistant coaches to Steve Kerr’s staff

The Warriors are reportedly hiring a pair of new assistant coaches to Steve Kerr’s staff.

While their roster is set to look dramatically different with the departures of Klay Thompson and Chris Paul, the Golden State Warriors’ coaching staff will also undergo changes.

With Kenny Anderson named the Cleveland Cavaliers’ new head coach, Steve Kerr had an opening on his coaching staff. In the early stages of the offseason, the Warriors reportedly brought in a pair of experienced coaches to fill out Kerr’s staff.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Warriors are planning to hire Terry Stotts as lead assistant and Jerry Stackhouse as another assistant.

Via @wojespn on Twitter:

Stotts has been coaching in the NBA since 1994, starting as an assistant with the Seattle Supersonics. Stotts has been a head coach three times, with two short stints with the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks. In 2012, Stotts was named head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. Stotts helped lead the Trail Blazers to the playoffs in eight consecutive seasons. After being eliminated in the first round of the 2021 playoffs, Stotts and the Trail Blazers mutually agreed to part ways. Stotts has also served as an assistant for the Dallas Mavericks and Warriors (2004-05).

Stackhouse played 18 seasons in the NBA, earning two bids to All-Star games in his career. In 2015, Stackhouse joined the Raptors organization as an assistant coach. Stackhouse also spent time as the Raptors 905 G League head coach. In 2018-19, Stackhouse joined the Memphis Grizzlies staff as an assistant before being named the head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores in the SEC. Stackhouse served as the head coach of Vanderbilt for five seasons.

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Jerry Stackhouse joins NBA team as assistant coach

Jerry Stackhouse is heading back to the NBA as he will join the Golden State Warriors coaching staff.

The Jerry Stackhouse era lasted a few years at Vanderbilt before the program decided to part ways with him after the 2023-24 season. He finished with a 70-92 record overall with zero NCAA Tournament appearances.

But Stackhouse wasn’t out of a job for long and he’s heading back to the professional ranks.

Per Adrian Wojnarowski, Stackhouse is expected to join Steve Kerr’s Golden State Warriors staff. He’s one of two assistants to be hired to Kerr’s staff for the upcoming season. They will also hire Terry Stotts as lead assistant coach after having to fill two vacancies this offseason.

Stackhouse reportedly interviewed for the Charlotte Hornets’ open head coaching job before it went to Charles Lee.

The 49-year-old Stackhouse previously spent three seasons coaching with the Toronto Raptors including two with their G League affiliate. He was an assistant on J.B. Bickerstaff’s staff with the Memphis Grizzlies. From there he took the head coaching job with Vanderbilt.

After playing at North Carolina, Stackhouse had a long NBA career before retiring in 2013. He was a two-time All-Star.

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Former Vanderbilt coach Jerry Stackhouse hired by Golden State

Former Vanderbilt Commodores head coach Jerry Stackhouse was hired as an assistant by the Golden State Warriors.

Jerry Stackhouse, who served as the head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores from 2019 until this past season, was hired as an assistant coach by Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

Stackhouse was hired alongside longtime NBA head coach Terry Stotts, who will serve as Kerr’s lead assistant.

Stackhouse finished up an incredible professional career in 2013 and started working as an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors in 2015. He had a short stint as the head coach of the Raptors 905 G-League squad, and spent one season as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies before taking over for Bryce Drew at Vanderbilt in the 2019-20 season.

The former North Carolina star went 20-37 in his first two seasons with the Commodores before breaking through with a 19-17 season in 2021-22, followed by a 22-15 campaign and SEC Coach of the Year award in 2022-23.

However, things fell apart for Stackhouse and Vanderbilt this past season, as the team went just 9-23 and 4-14 in SEC play.

Vanderbilt ultimately let Stackhouse go at the conclusion of the season, hiring Mark Byington from James Madison as his replacement.

Now the two-time NBA All-Star will get back to the professional ranks to work with Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Golden State’s young core as they look to stay relevant in the post Klay Thompson era.

Former Tar Heel following Chris Mack to College of Charleston

Jeff McInnis was part of three successful UNC basketball teams in the late 20th century. After a 2-year coaching hiatus, he’s hopping into the college ranks.

Despite the NCAA Tournament being fresh in our minds, the transfer portal makes it feel like we’re already deep into the college basketball offseason.

The biggest name to enter the transfer portal so far is Arizona big man Oumar Ballo, who’s exploded to become a top center after transferring from Gonzaga. Other players, like Kentucky’s Aaron Bradshaw, are looking to find consistent starting roles elsewhere.

There’s also been a few notable coaching changes – Eric Musselman (Arkansas -> USC), John Calipari (Kentucky -> Arkansas) and Chris Mack (College of Charleston) – to name a few. Pat Kelsey, the former Charleston coach, is heading up to Louisville.

What you may not know, however, is there’s a UNC connection with one of these new coaches.

Mack, the former Louisville and longtime Xavier coach, recent hired former Tar Heels player Jeff McInnis as an assistant coach.

McInnis played his college ball at North Carolina from 1993-1996, helping UNC to the 1995 Final Four and a pair of Second Round appearances. McInnis played alongside the likes of Tar Heel legends Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace, then enjoyed an 11-year NBA career that ended with him in a Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets) uniform.

While Charleston will be McInnis’ first stop at the college level, he is credited with founding AAU program Team Charlotte (NC). He then spent 2019-2022 at Combine Academy in Lincolnton, NC.

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Vanderbilt basketball lands coach who vanquished Wisconsin in NCAA Tournament

James Madison head coach gets new job:

Vanderbilt University’s men’s basketball program is hiring former James Madison University head coach Mark Byington as its next head coach.

The news broke Monday, two days removed from the Dukes’ 72-61 victory over Wisconsin in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament.

Byington led James Madison to a record-setting 32 wins and the program’s first bid to March Madness in over 40 years. JMU kick-started its 2023-2024 campaign with 14 consecutive triumphs and punched its ticket to the tournament with a win over Arkansas State in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament title game.

On March 23, the 12-seeded Dukes held a lead against No. 5 Wisconsin for the entire contest en route to an 11-tally win. Byington’s group would drop its next game to Duke in the Round of 32, but his postseason run certainly garnered the attention of the Commodores’ decision makers. 

Byington is slated to replace Jerry Stackhouse, a former NBA All-Star. Stackhouse manned Vanderbilt’s sidelines for five seasons and led the Commodores to 22 wins in 2022-2023 without an NCAA Tournament appearance.

Vanderbilt forward Lee Dort to reportedly enter transfer portal

Vanderbilt forward Lee Dort is reportedly set to enter the NCAA transfer portal following Jerry Stackhouse’s departure.

According to multiple reports, Vanderbilt forward Lee Dort is set to enter the transfer portal after two seasons with the Commodores.

Dort, a sophomore forward, appeared in only one game off the Commodores bench this season, as well as 18 total across his two seasons with Vanderbilt. Across the last two years, Dort has averaged a combined 1.7 PPG and 2.1 RPG in limited action, with each of his 18 games played coming off the bench.

Formerly the headline prospect from Vanderbilt’s 2022 recruiting class, Dort is a former four-star prospect out of Greenhill School in Texas, ranked as the No. 105 overall player for that cycle.

This news comes a day after the Commodores reportedly parted ways with head coach Jerry Stackhouse after five seasons at the helm of the Vanderbilt program. Dort is the first Vanderbilt player to announce his intention to enter the transfer portal following the news of Stackhouse’s departure – although more are expected to do so in the coming days.

Is former UNC standout on coaching hot seat this season?

Is former UNC basketball standout Jerry Stackhouse on the hot seat in his fifth year at Vanderbilt?

Former North Carolina standout Jerry Stackhouse is still attempting to turn the Vanderbilt program around. Vanderbilt hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament under Stackhouse and their last appearance was back in 2017.

That streak will continue this year with a 7-18 record overall and a 2-10 record in SEC play here in late February. With another season of struggles, Stackhouse finds himself on the hot seat at least according to one analyst.

Rob Cassidy of Rivals listed five coaches who could be on the hot seat and right at the top he included Stackhouse, predicting that he would ‘probably not’ be back:

Year five of the Stackhouse experience in Nashville has been significantly worse than the first four, none of which ended with an NCAA tournament appearance. It’s becoming nearly impossible to see a way forward for the current regime.

A 35-point loss to in-state rival Tennessee over the weekend was probably the nail in Stackhouse’s Vandy coffin, but a seven-game losing streak earlier in the season did the most damage to his future. The fact that Stackhouse is just 26-56 in SEC games over the past three years is a tough pill to swallow, even at Vanderbilt.

If this season stays on its current trajectory, Stackhouse seems destined to win fewer than five conference games for the third time in his five-year tenure in Nashville. Any good will he built with a 22-win season a year ago has evaporated, so it seems as though the Commodores will be in the market for a new head coach sooner rather than later.

Stackhouse has had his struggles in five years as the head coach but winning at Vanderbilt is no easy task. It’s tough to recruit and you’re in a really good conference that allows you to pick up some signature wins but those have been a rarity for him.

There’s still a few weeks left in the season but it feels like he will need a miracle to survive.

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Jerry Stackhouse inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

Tar Heel great Jerry Stackhouse was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.

Tar Heel legend [autotag]Jerry Stackhouse[/autotag] has added another accolade to his impressive career, this time being inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame.

It was announced in January that Stackhouse would be a part of the 2023 North Carolina Hall of Fame due to his deep ties to the state. And on Friday night, that became a reality for Stackhouse.

Before winning all ACC tournament MVP at UNC, he was putting his talents on full display at Kinston High School, becoming a player to watch.

Stackhouse joined Tom Fazio, Bob “Stonewall” Jackson, Jason Brown, Tom Higgins, Ellen Griffin, Donald Evans, Clarkston Hines, Curtis Strange, Jeff Davis, and Trudi Lacey. When asked about the honor, Stackhouse explained his belief that the day would come to WITN.

“I always was confident, even as a young boy, not that that was my goal at that time, but I just knew I wanted to be the best of my peers as long as I played the game. Fortunately, God blessed me to be in that category,”

Stackhouse was a star at UNC, averaging 19.2 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.5 steals, and 1.2 blocks in his final year. Then, after a remarkable 17-years in the NBA as a player, Stackhouse traded in the Js for a clipboard, becoming the voice for Vanderbilt’s locker room.

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Ime Udoka and the 9 other most likely candidates the Raptors may consider to replace Nick Nurse

Two other names to watch: former NBA players Jerry Stackhouse and Adrian Griffin Sr.

The Toronto Raptors surprised fans when they decided to fire head coach Nick Nurse on Friday morning.

Nurse, who led the Raptors to win the NBA championship in 2019, is now widely considered the favorite to become head coach of the Rockets. The Raptors, meanwhile, have a big decision to make when it comes to finding a replacement for the 2020 NBA Coach of the Year.

Whoever takes over for Nurse will inherit a roster with two-time All-Star Pascal Siakam, one-time All-Star Fred VanVleet, Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes, and OG Anunoby (who was one of the most coveted players at the trade deadline).

Toronto’s coaching decision will reflect whether the franchise plans to rebuild (VanVleet and Gary Trent Jr. both have player options and can become free agents this offseason) or just slightly retool for another championship pursuit.

Here is more from Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri (via ESPN):

“This is an opportunity for us to reset, to refocus, to put into place the personnel and the players who will help us reach our goal of winning our next championship.”

Ime Udoka is expected to be a “serious candidate” for the opening in Toronto, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Here is who else the organization may have in mind.

Jerry Stackhouse called reports about taking the Pistons’ head coach job ‘beguilement in the highest form’

There’s no better way to confirm you want to stay at Vanderbilt than talking like a 19th-century robber baron.

Vanderbilt Commodores head coach Jerry Stackhouse has momentum. After a brutal start to his 2022-23 campaign, his team finished the year on an absolute heater. Vandy ended the pre-NIT season with a 10-2 run that included wins over Tennessee, Mississippi State and Kentucky (twice).

That wasn’t enough to propel the Dores to the NCAA Tournament, but it did boost Stackhouse’s stock in the coaching world. After pushing an undermanned team to new heights and showcasing a knack for play design and clutch moments, he’s once again emerged as a coaching candidate at the highest levels of the sport.

That includes his former NBA home, the Detroit Pistons. Earlier this week, reports began to spread that Stackhouse could leave Tennessee for Michigan and jump to the pros. On Thursday, he took to Twitter to shut those rumors down.

It wasn’t enough to just throw the clown emoji at them; Stack went full Cornelius Vanderbilt and hit them with “beguilement in the highest form.” That is prime robber baron stuff. That is a clause that begins a threat that ends with your land being taken and your oil derricks seized. 247Sports is one poorly sourced report away from having the full wrath of the Pinkertons brought down upon them.

The response also gave Stackhouse the chance to throw a little shade at the vocal contingent of Vanderbilt that had been calling for his job before 2023’s furious finish. The two-time NBA All-Star is active on Twitter and had gained a reputation among Commodore faithful for being quick to block users for lobbing even justified criticism at the team. He’s lately unblocked several of those accounts, so it’s unclear just who falls into that 5.8 percent — though you can probably take a guess looking at the coach’s replies under any given Tweet.

If Stackhouse were considering a jump to the NBA, 2023 is a strong opportunity. Detroit’s job vacancy would give him the chance to return to a franchise where he played five seasons and had the most productive stretch of his pro career. His current roster at Vandy is suffering from plenty of turnover after its NIT quarterfinal run. All-SEC center Liam Robbins has exhausted his eligibility, point guard Tyrin Lawrence has entered the NBA Draft (though he’s kept his NCAA eligibility intact and may return) and six players, including four who played at least 18 minutes per game in 2023-23, have entered the transfer portal.

But Stackhouse appears locked in for a fifth year at the helm. Vanderbilt has improved its record every season since his 2019 debut. Doing so again in 2023-24 would be the biggest achievement of his coaching career to date and likely cement the program’s first NCAA Tournament invitation since 2017. That’s what he’s focused on at the moment; anything else is just “beguilement.”