{"id":692994,"date":"2026-05-25T06:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:47:35","slug":"hools-is-hearing-united-circling-nba-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692994\/","title":{"rendered":"Hools is Hearing: United circling NBA coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United are the last team in the League looking for a head coach, and Hools is Hearing that a very prominent and well-respected NBA name is at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Current Milwaukee Bucks assistant Dave Joerger has been interviewed by the club recently about potentially taking over after Dean Vickerman\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old has previously been Head Coach of the Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings, before being added to the Bucks staff two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in the United States, Joerger won the 2024 NBA Cup with the Bucks in 2024 (as an assistant) and the NBA D-League title with the Dakota Wizards in 2007 as Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p>There is a strong relationship between Joerger and newly signed marquee Joe Ingles, which could further strengthen the possibility of landing such a big name for United.<\/p>\n<p>While the process continues, former United assistant Jacob Chance is still in the hunt for the role, having been interviewed previously, among other names.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s roster currently has Chris Goulding, Joe Ingles, Shea Ili, Sam Waardenburg, Fabijan Krslovic, Kyle Bowen and Dash Daniels for the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL27 Season.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/nbl26-free-agency-every-move-as-it-happens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free Agency Tracker: Rolling updates, signings and reported moves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779691655_992_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne United are the last team in the League looking for a head coach, and Hools is Hearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-692994","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\/692994","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=692994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}