{"id":708394,"date":"2026-06-16T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/708394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:27:09","slug":"rockets-assistant-still-in-consideration-for-mavericks-head-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/708394\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets assistant still in consideration for Mavericks head coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the departure of former head coach Jason Kidd, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Mavericks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dallas Mavericks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> and new president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri have been in search of a new coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-the-nbas-latest-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to&quot;}\" class=\"link \">According to<\/a> NBA insider Marc Stein, that search includes current <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston Rockets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a> assistant coach <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3854\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Royal Ivey;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Royal Ivey&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Ivey<\/a>. Although Ivey has never worked as an NBA head coach, he&#8217;s worked as an assistant with four different franchises, including the Thunder, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nets<\/a>, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/new-york\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Knicks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Knicks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks<\/a> and Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Ivey has worked as the head coach of the South Sudan National Team since 2021, leading them to the 2024 Olympics. Ivey joined the Houston bench in 2023 and has remained since then, despite a head coaching change from Stephen Silas to Ime Udoka. Other candidates around the league for the Mavericks vacancy are said to be <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/minnesota\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Timberwolves;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Timberwolves&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timberwolves<\/a> assistant Micah Nori and recent <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/golden-state\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Warriors;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Warriors&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors<\/a> assistant Terry Stotts.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2026\/06\/16\/houston-assistant-still-in-consideration-mavericks-head-coaching-job\/90581487007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston assistant still considered for Mavericks head coaching job;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston assistant still considered for Mavericks head coaching job&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Houston assistant still considered for Mavericks head coaching job<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the departure of former head coach Jason Kidd, the Dallas Mavericks and new president of basketball operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[18614,760,18289,16898,5050,763,25169,281674,355,6428,305751,305752,99,6427,4202],"class_list":["post-708394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-assistant-coach","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-head","tag-head-coach","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jason-kidd","tag-knicks","tag-masai-ujiri","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-royal-ivey","tag-south-sudan-national-team","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}