{"id":289830,"date":"2026-05-30T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289830\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:22:13","slug":"news-6-sports-director-jamie-seh-has-confirmed-the-orlando-magic-are-finalizing-a-deal-to-make-sean-sweeney-the-teams-new-head-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289830\/","title":{"rendered":"News 6 Sports Director Jamie Seh has confirmed the Orlando Magic are finalizing a deal to make Sean Sweeney the team\u2019s new head coach."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 4:44 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">News 6 Sports Director Jamie Seh has confirmed the Orlando Magic are finalizing a deal to make Sean Sweeney the team\u2019s new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney \u2014 currently the associate head coach for the San Antonio Spurs \u2014 is getting the job over, among other candidates, longtime coaches Billy Donovan and Jeff Van Gundy. The 41-year-old Sweeney will replace Jamahl Mosley, who was let go by the Magic after five seasons and three consecutive first-round playoff exits. Mosley has since been hired as coach of the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 4:44 PM News 6 Sports Director Jamie Seh has confirmed the Orlando Magic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[122394,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-289830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news-6-sports-director-jamie-seh-has-confirmed-the-orlando-magic-are-finalizing-a-deal-to-make-sean-sweeney-the-teams-new-head-coach","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289830","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=289830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}