{"id":57384,"date":"2025-08-09T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57384\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:28:06","slug":"suns-hire-11-year-nba-veteran-to-first-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57384\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns Hire 11-Year NBA Veteran to First Coaching Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0jxw6t3ki\">The Phoenix Suns are hiring 11-year NBA veteran Mike Muscala as an assistant coach under new head coach Jordan Ott, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1954217795580739860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to a report<\/a> from Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_2fmkqk9f1\">Muscala played the last 11 seasons for seven franchises, including the Atlanta Hawks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers and Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_hrwmurj2h\">Muscala and Ott do have some history together. Ott was a video assistant in Philadelphia from 2013-16, and Muscala was there at the same time alongside him as a player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_7njon7108\">Muscala finishes his NBA career with 548 games played. He averaged 5.9 points and 3.1 rebounds on 45.1% shooting from the floor over his 11 NBA seasons.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns are hiring 11-year NBA veteran Mike Muscala as an assistant coach under new head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-57384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}