{"id":668267,"date":"2026-05-13T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668267\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:28:10","slug":"report-sixers-coach-lands-us-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668267\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Sixers coach lands US gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One week after he stepped down as the Adelaide 36ers coach, Mike Wells has reportedly landed a new position.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/wnbls-8-million-loss-revealed-as-officials-consider-season-change-to-winter\/news-story\/8d403b8f44d8ddc848c3c54a3f4d258c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CODE Sports<\/a>, Wells, who spent two seasons with Adelaide, is set to join US college side Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>CODE Sports says Wells plans to link up with the Buckeyes so he can also be close to his family, including his son and parents.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL, Wells guided the team from the City of Churches to the post-season twice, including the 2025-26 Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Across the two campaigns, Wells coached 72 games, winning 41 of them at 56.9 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Wells\u2019 departure, ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc is reporting that five-time NBL champion Trevor Gleeson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/report-frontrunner-emerges-for-adelaide-36ers-job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emerged as the \u201cfrontrunner\u201d<\/a> for the Sixers\u2019 Head Coaching role.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/wnbls-8-million-loss-revealed-as-officials-consider-season-change-to-winter\/news-story\/8d403b8f44d8ddc848c3c54a3f4d258c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Adelaide 36ers coach Mike Wells set to join US college side<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778678890_883_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One week after he stepped down as the Adelaide 36ers coach, Mike Wells has reportedly landed a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-668267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668267","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=668267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}