{"id":346750,"date":"2026-06-23T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346750\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:42:33","slug":"dallas-mavericks-hire-dusty-may-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346750\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks Hire Dusty May as Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dallas Mavericks are hiring University of Michigan coach Dusty May to lead their franchise. May led the Wolverines to the 2026 NCAA Championship. Shams Charania of ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/contributor\/shams-charania\/df84bf63a11b3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported the news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">University of Michigan coach Dusty May has agreed to become the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN. Major college-to-pro jump for the 2026 NCAA championship coach and swing for the Mavericks and Masai Ujiri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mavericks will buy out May\u2019s Michigan contract to procure his services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This is the franchise\u2019s third major move in recent months after hiring Ujiri as team president and wooing Portland Trail Blazers assistant general manager Mike Schmitz to become their team president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Of note for Blazers fans, the Mavericks did not hire Minnesota Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori, who was reportedly high on their list of candidates. Nori has also been tabbed as a finalist for Portland\u2019s open head coaching position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks are hiring University of Michigan coach Dusty May to lead their franchise. May led the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,29030],"class_list":["post-346750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-nba-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346750","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=346750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}