{"id":264793,"date":"2026-04-24T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264793\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:41:08","slug":"plano-hires-former-smu-player-jibran-kelley-of-frisco-heritage-as-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264793\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano hires former SMU player Jibran Kelley of Frisco Heritage as head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano ISD announced the hiring of Jibran Kelley as Plano High School\u2019s next boys head basketball coach Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kelley, who played college basketball at SMU from 2000-03, had coached at Heritage since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Plano went 20-12 this past season but missed the playoffs, going 6-10 in District 6-6A. The program hasn\u2019t made the postseason since winning the district during the 2022-23 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Plano ISD\u2019s seen a renewed resurgence in basketball culminating in Plano East\u2019s unbeaten state championship run in 2023-24. Plano West has also now had three consecutive seasons of 20 wins or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano ISD announced the hiring of Jibran Kelley as Plano High School\u2019s next boys head basketball coach Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-264793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}