{"id":747170,"date":"2026-07-06T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747170\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:04:19","slug":"wizards-announce-coaching-staff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747170\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards announce coaching staff changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Wizards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/wizards\/news\/wizards-announce-coaching-staff-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have finalized their coaching staff<\/a> ahead of the 2026-27 NBA season, announcing several additions and role changes as the organization continues building around head coach Brian Keefe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Among the updates, Adam Caporn has been promoted to lead assistant after spending last season on Keefe\u2019s staff. Caporn is also the head coach of the Australia men\u2019s national basketball team, one of the top teams in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Other updates were those that we knew from previous reports. Washington added former Georgetown men\u2019s basketball head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/washington-wizards-news\/71384\/report-wizards-add-patrick-ewing-to-coaching-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Ewing as an assistant<\/a> for his second stint in Washington, where he began his NBA coaching career more than two decades ago. Veteran coach Steve Clifford joins the organization as a coaching advisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">David Vanterpool will move into a basketball operations role in the front office after being an assistant coach for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Capital City Go-Go will also have new leadership, with Tevon Saddler being named head coach of the Wizards\u2019 G League affiliate. TJ Sorrentine will be the Wizards\u2019 Summer League head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards have finalized their coaching staff ahead of the 2026-27 NBA season, announcing several additions and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[829,355,99],"class_list":["post-747170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-latest-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747170","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=747170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}