{"id":338468,"date":"2026-06-16T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:11:09","slug":"mavericks-coaching-search-moves-forward-as-nba-draft-nears-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338468\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks coaching search moves forward as NBA draft nears \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Magic found its coach in former Dallas Mavericks assistant Sean Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Bulls just found theirs with Monday&#8217;s reported hiring of former Portland Trail Blazers interim coach Tiago Splitter.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the Trail Blazers and Mavericks as the only teams with coaching vacancies with a little more than a week until the 2026 NBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are in different phases of their hiring process, with Portland perceived to have a list of finalists, while Dallas has reportedly progressed to the interview stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavericks-coach-micah-nori-terry-stotts-22305893.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more from our media partners, The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic found its coach in former Dallas Mavericks assistant Sean Sweeney. The Chicago Bulls just found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2945,6385,102,581,104,2582,103,3080,154],"class_list":["post-338468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338468","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=338468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}