{"id":815920,"date":"2026-07-22T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815920\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:54:09","slug":"dwane-casey-under-consideration-to-coach-potential-nba-europe-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815920\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwane Casey Under Consideration To Coach Potential NBA Europe Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwane Casey could be returning to the head coaching ranks but not in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Casey, who was most recently a head coach with the Pistons from 2018-23, has emerged as a head coaching candidate for BC Roma SPQR, which is bidding for a franchise in Rome in the upcoming NBA Europe league, Marc Stein of The Stein Line <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2079603393945886975\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>. NBA Europe is scheduled to have its inaugural season in 2027\/28.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Board of Governors <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/nba-extremely-encouraged-by-bids-for-european-franchises.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will soon determine<\/a> which bidders receive franchises in NBA Europe. BC Roma SPQR was recently co-founded by former Mavericks GM Donnie Nelson along with Lakers superstar Luka Doncic. Casey was an assistant coach in Dallas from 2008-11 during Nelson\u2019s stint in Dallas\u2019 front office.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Roma SPQR club will participate in the EuroCup basketball season, which begins in late September. The club is also weighing European candidates for its debut Serie A season, Stein adds.<\/p>\n<p>Casey, 69, underwent a rebuilding project with Detroit after coaching Toronto from 2011-18. He stepped down from the Pistons\u2019 head coaching position after the 2022\/23 season but was retained by owner Tom Gores as a special adviser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwane Casey could be returning to the head coaching ranks but not in the NBA. Casey, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,241498,315489,11473,85,391128],"class_list":["post-815920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-donnie-nelson","tag-dwane-casey","tag-luka-doncic","tag-sports","tag-tom-gores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815920","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=815920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}