{"id":286370,"date":"2025-11-15T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286370\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:57:07","slug":"sources-pelicans-fire-coach-willie-green-amid-2-10-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286370\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Pelicans fire coach Willie Green amid 2-10 start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohm Youngmisuk<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763218627_442_youngmisuk_ohm.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ohm Youngmisuk<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Staff WriterOhm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate of Michigan State University.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NotoriousOHM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow him on Twitter \u00bb<\/a>Nov 15, 2025, 09:47 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/no\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> have fired coach Willie Green after a 2-10 start to the season, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Green was doomed by a miserable 0-6 start and injuries to his best players. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395628\/zion-williamson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Williamson<\/a> has played just five games due to a hamstring injury, an ailment he has suffered in four straight seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans were the first team in NBA history to lose three of their first six games by at least 30 points, after allowing at least 120 points in five straight games to begin a season for the first time in franchise history, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans is on a four-game losing streak, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401809787\/lakers-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">118-104 loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant James Borrego will become the interim coach for the Pelicans, sources said. Borrego, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> coach, was a finalist for the Lakers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> head coaching jobs in 2024. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> also offered Borrego lead assistant jobs during the offseason, but he stayed in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Green was in his fifth season as Pelicans coach and finishes with a 150-190 record, including postseason appearances in 2021-22 and 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohm Youngmisuk Close Ohm Youngmisuk ESPN Staff WriterOhm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}