{"id":289758,"date":"2026-05-30T03:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:44:19","slug":"sources-orlando-magic-to-hire-spurs-sean-sweeney-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289758\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Orlando Magic to hire Spurs Sean Sweeney as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Spurs associate head coach Sean\u00a0Sweeney, who was expected to be one of the most sought-after names on the NBA coaching market this offseason, has agreed in principle to become the head coach in Orlando, league sources say.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney, 41, will replace Jamahl Mosley, who was fired after the Magic&#8217;s Game 7 loss against Detroit in the first round of the playoffs last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hired away from Dallas last summer, Sweeney has been widely applauded for designing a Spurs defense that ranked third in the NBA during the regular season, up from 25th in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney is expected to remain with the Spurs throughout the remainder of the playoffs. They face the Thunder in a do-or-die Game 7 on Saturday in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Spurs associate head coach Sean\u00a0Sweeney, who was expected to be one of the most sought-after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-289758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}