{"id":287863,"date":"2025-11-16T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287863\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:58:10","slug":"nba-new-orleans-pelicans-fire-head-coach-willie-green-after-2-10-start-to-the-season-with-james-borrego-placed-in-interim-charge-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287863\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: New Orleans Pelicans fire head coach Willie Green after 2-10 start to the season with James Borrego placed in interim charge | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0New Orleans Pelicans have\u00a0fired head coach Willie Green after a 2-10 start to the NBA season.<\/p>\n

Assistant James Borrego, a former Charlotte Hornets head coach, has been placed in interim charge.<\/p>\n

Joe Dumars, the Pelicans’ vice-president of basketball operations, said: “It really wasn’t the won and lost record as the ultimate determining factor.<\/p>\n

“We have to establish who is going to be here in New Orleans going forward and I just did not see that happening.”<\/p>\n

Dumars said he saw a side “losing the same way, over and over again”, adding: “We have to establish that we’re going to play hard every night.<\/p>\n

“Before you can become anything in this league, you have to establish that first. That’s still what I’m looking for right now.”<\/p>\n

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\n Pelicans forward Zion Williamson has only played five games this season due to injury<\/p>\n

The Pelicans made a 0-6 start to the season, including three 30-plus-point losses, and are on a four-game losing streak following Friday’s defeat to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

Their only wins came back-to-back, against the Hornets and the Dallas Mavericks, earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Green – who has seen key player Zion Williamson play only five games so far this season due to hamstring and foot injuries – was in his fifth year as Pelicans coach and leaves with a 150-190 record, including playoff appearances in 2021-22 and 2023-24.<\/p>\n

Borrego was head coach of the Hornets from 2018 to 2022, going 138-163, including 43-39 in his final season.<\/p>\n

Dumars expects Borrego to stay in charge for the rest of this campaign but did not guarantee that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0New Orleans Pelicans have\u00a0fired head coach Willie Green after a 2-10 start to the NBA season. Assistant James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-287863","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\/287863","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=287863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}