{"id":751816,"date":"2026-07-09T03:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751816\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:57:20","slug":"nba-decides-keyonte-george-cant-coach-in-nba-summer-league-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751816\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA decides Keyonte George can\u2019t coach in NBA summer league \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reviewing the situation and relying on precedent, the NBA has informed the Utah Jazz that Keyonte George will not be able to coach during their Las Vegas Summer League game against the Washington Wizards on Thursday, league sources told the Deseret News.<\/p>\n

The Jazz were informed Wednesday that George, the same as any other active player, will not be allowed to take on any kind of official coaching role, in summer league or otherwise, even without compensation.<\/p>\n

George is not the first active NBA player who has wanted to join the coaching ranks on the sideline, even in a volunteer capacity, according to league sources, and the league wants to keep the rules consistent across the board.<\/p>\n

George has spent the majority of the summer in Salt Lake City and has been around the younger players every day as team has prepared for Summer League contests. <\/p>\n

During a recent practice, George drew up a play, and after the play was successful there were jokes about getting George on the coaching staff. <\/p>\n

But the jokes became serious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was originally thought that so long as George did not receive any compensation and took on the role as a volunteer, he could help out on the sidelines in the Jazz\u2019s July 9 game against the Wizards.<\/p>\n

Both George and the Jazz\u2019s summer coaching staff were looking forward to the single-game opportunity for the fourth-year guard. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been great,\u201d Jazz assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski said on Tuesday after the final Salt Lake City Summer League game. \u201cHe\u2019s been at every practice, he\u2019s helping our Jazz guys who are part of this experience this year with words of encouragement, the perspective of his experiences as a player… He\u2019s been totally engaged, and that\u2019s really, really exciting. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe drew up a play at practice, and it worked out pretty well, so I\u2019m hoping he saved a few for Thursday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

While George can\u2019t coach Thursday, the league\u2019s decision is not likely to stop him from calling to his Jazz teammates from the courtside fan seats at Thomas & Mack Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After reviewing the situation and relying on precedent, the NBA has informed the Utah Jazz that Keyonte George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,4219],"class_list":["post-751816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751816","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=751816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}