{"id":780168,"date":"2026-07-04T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780168\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:06:15","slug":"keyonte-george-set-to-coach-in-a-jazz-nba-summer-league-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780168\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyonte George set to coach in a Jazz NBA Summer League game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Names like Bill Russell come to mind when we think of NBA player-coaches, but the days of that being more common are way behind us.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t see that exact scenario play out this summer, but one active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz<\/a> player is going to do something similar that we don&#8217;t really see in sports anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Keyonte George set to coach in a Jazz NBA Summer League game<\/p>\n<p>Jazz reporter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBASarah\/status\/2073119276836286570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2073119276836286570%7Ctwgr%5E29f4de9b108112359282c8d625e9bd38dcf08dde%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slcdunk.com%2Fjazz-analysis%2F69162%2Fhow-keyonte-george-is-becoming-the-leader-of-the-utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sarah Todd <\/a>announced that guard\u00a0Keyonte George will have the opportunity to sit on Utah&#8217;s bench in a summer league game this summer and participate in the role of being one of the team&#8217;s assistant coaches.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/3-backup-center-replacements-lakers-deandre-ayton-trade\/98387972256de3f8168e5ed4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3 backup center replacements for Lakers after Deandre Ayton trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will be for just one game, taking place on July 9 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this is happening at all is intriguing enough, but the Jazz are giving a player some of the coaching duties to a player who is just 22 years old, with three years of NBA experience.<\/p>\n<p>George has made tremendous strides since entering the league, and has seemed to earn the franchise&#8217;s trust and respect.<\/p>\n<p>He had a borderline all-star caliber season this past year, averaging 23.6 points, 6.1 assists and 1.1 steals.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA articles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Names like Bill Russell come to mind when we think of NBA player-coaches, but the days of that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-780168","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\/780168","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=780168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}