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The winningest males’s basketball head coach in Notre Dame historical past is reportedly headed to the NBA.
In response to Tom Noie of the South Bend Tribune, Mike Brey might be an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks subsequent season. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported it stays to be seen what his particular function might be on head coach Quin Snyder’s workers.
Noie famous there’s a historical past in place between the 2 who “have remained shut,” as Brey was an assistant coach at Duke when Snyder performed there for 4 seasons from 1985-89.
Brey brings an intensive head teaching resume to the Hawks. He was at Delaware for 5 seasons after his stint at Duke and led the Fightin’ Blue Hens to 2 American East Convention regular-season titles, two convention event championships and two NCAA event appearances.
He then coached Notre Dame for the previous 23 seasons and retired following the 2022-23 marketing campaign.
Brey completed his time at Notre Dame with a 483-280 document, 13 NCAA event appearances, one Huge East regular-season championship and one ACC event title.
As for Snyder, he coached the Utah Jazz for eight seasons from 2014-15 till he resigned forward of the 2022-23 marketing campaign. Atlanta employed him in February to switch the fired Nate McMillan, and there could possibly be an offseason of change in retailer for the franchise.
Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer reported final Monday that the entrance workplace has a “inexperienced mild” from crew possession to make strikes which will even embrace buying and selling Trae Younger.
That comes after a December report from Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes that mentioned Younger “could possibly be the following participant on a rookie max extension to request a commerce.”
Shams Charania and Sam Amick of The Athletic reported round that very same time there was current rigidity between Younger and McMillan.
Atlanta at the moment trails the Boston Celtics 1-0 of their first-round playoff sequence. A loss to Boston might result in some change within the participant division, however Snyder is already making strikes on the teaching workers by bringing in a well-known face.
