New Celtics head coach Ime Udoka is certainly wasting no time in putting together his coaching staff.
On Monday, Jay King of The Athletic reported that Udoka was adding Spurs assistant Will Hardy to his staff. Today, Clevis Murray of The Athletic reported that current assistant Jay Larranga is not expected to return. And now it looks like Udoka has his eyes on adding a former NBA vet.
Reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Udoka is targeting 13-year NBA veteran and current University of the Pacific head coach Damon Stoudamire to join his coaching staff.
Pacific’s Damon Stoudamire is a target of the Boston Celtics to join new coach Ime Udoka’s staff, sources tell ESPN. Stoudamire is a former WCC coach of year and NBA Rookie of Year. He played 13 NBA seasons.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 29, 2021
Udoka and Stoudamire were teammates on the San Antonio Spurs during the 2007-08 season.
Stoudamire has been the head coach at Pacific since 2016, winning WCC coach of the year in 2020 and holding a 71-77 overall record.
Stoudamire held several assistant gigs prior to coaching at Pacific, including with the Memphis Grizzlies from 2009-11, University of Memphis from 2011-13 and 2015-16, and University of Arizona from 2013-15.
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