returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2024<\/a> before Michigan hired May.<\/p>\nThe 49-year-old May replaces Jason Kidd, who was let go two weeks after the Mavericks hired Masai Ujiri as president of basketball operations and alternate governor.<\/p>\n
May comes to the NBA with a chance to mold 2025 No. 1 draft pick and reigning Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg. Veteran star Kyrie Irving is also on the roster for now after missing the entire 2025-26 season following an ACL tear in March of last year.<\/p>\n
May\u2019s first job as a college assistant was at Murray State in 2005-06. He then served on staffs at UAB, Louisiana Tech and Florida before getting his first head coaching job at Florida Atlantic.<\/p>\n
The Owls went 35-4 during their dream season in 2022-23, which ended with a\u00a072-71 loss to San Diego State\u00a0in the national semifinals when Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beating shot for the Aztecs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a fan of Dusty\u2019s when he was at FAU,\u201d said Yaxel Lendeborg, who played for May at Michigan and is expected to be a lottery pick in the first round of the NBA draft Tuesday night. \u201cAnd now, after playing for him, I\u2019m a bigger fan. I have so much respect for Dusty May, I can\u2019t even tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lendeborg said at last month\u2019s draft combine that he believed May ran Michigan\u2019s program like an NBA program in many ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of schemes, a lot of switching and stuff. And his offense was very much a pro-style offense,\u201d Lendeborg said. \u201cWe played fast-paced, physical, all of that. \u2026 I\u2019ve gained so much knowledge from him as far as those actions and just those little communication keys.\u201d<\/p>\n
May\u2019s rise in coaching has been meteoric, particularly the last four seasons.<\/p>\n
He took over at Florida Atlantic in 2018 and had four consecutive seasons of finishing just over .500 before striking gold in 2022-23, going 35-4 and taking the Owls on that improbable Final Four run.<\/p>\n
May went 25-9 at FAU the following season, then went to Michigan and brought the Wolverines back to prominence. He was 64-13 in his two seasons after replacing Juwan Howard with Michigan coming off an 8-24 season, the school\u2019s lowest win total since going 7-20 in 1981-82.<\/p>\n
Michigan went 27-10 in May\u2019s debut, won the Big Ten Tournament and made it to the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n
May\u2019s record in his last four college seasons was 124-26, an .827 winning percentage that was third-best in all of major college men\u2019s basketball over that span behind Houston\u2019s Kelvin Sampson (.861) and Duke\u2019s Jon Scheyer (.832).<\/p>\n
The Indiana native was a student manager for the Hoosiers and coach Bob Knight while he was in school there from 1996-2000. He gained experience in scouting, video operations and player development while with the Hall of Fame coach, who died in 2023.<\/p>\n
After graduating from Indiana, May spent two seasons as an administrative assistant and video coordinator at USC. He returned to the Hoosiers in similar roles from 2002-05.<\/p>\n
AP\u2019s Tim Reynolds in Miami and Stephen Hawkins in Arlington, Texas, contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 The Dallas Mavericks and Dusty May of national champion Michigan are finalizing a deal for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,2582,123697,103,122569,123695,123694,123696,4280,123698,123699],"class_list":["post-346704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-mavericks-coach","tag-dallas-news","tag-dusty-may","tag-dusty-may-mavericks","tag-dusty-may-michigan","tag-dusty-may-nba","tag-jason-kidd","tag-michigan-coach","tag-who-is-michigan-coach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346704","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=346704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}