{"id":311824,"date":"2026-06-18T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:55:31","slug":"orlando-magic-to-introduce-new-coach-sean-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311824\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic to introduce new coach Sean Sweeney"},"content":{"rendered":"

News conference set for 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

FILE – Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Sean Sweeney directs the team during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Dec. 19, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo\/Abbie Parr, File) (Abbie Parr, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Orlando Magic fans will hear from their new head coach today.<\/p>\n

Sean Sweeney will be formally introduced at a news conference in Orlando at 1 p.m. News 6 will stream the News conference live when it happens.<\/p>\n

Sweeney comes to the Magic from the San Antonio Spurs, where he was an associate head coach. Sweeney specializes in the defensive side of basketball strategy and is considered the mastermind behind the Spurs\u2019 defensive scheme that helped propel them to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

The Spurs eventually lost the championship to the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n

Sweeney is 41 and this is his first full-time stint as an NBA head coach. <\/p>\n

Sweeney will be the Magic\u2019s 15th head coach, replacing Jamahl Mosley, who was fired last month after five seasons and three consecutive first-round playoff exits. Mosley is now the coach of the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n

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About the AuthorChristie Zizo headshotChristie Zizo<\/a><\/p>\n

Christie joined the ClickOrlando team in November 2021. She cultivated her political reporting skills at Spectrum News 13, and before that at UCF. She spends her spare time with her beagle, Lulu, finding hidden gems around Central Florida, playing the violin and indulging her love for all things geek with her friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News conference set for 1 p.m. FILE – Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Sean Sweeney directs the team during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3108,139,141,1239,140,113486,110],"class_list":["post-311824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-basketball","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-sean-sweeney","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311824","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=311824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}