{"id":85480,"date":"2025-08-15T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:25:07","slug":"buford-departs-kus-staff-for-nba-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85480\/","title":{"rendered":"Buford departs KU\u2019s staff for NBA job"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kansas men\u2019s basketball assistant coach Chase Buford is leaving the team after one season, as head coach Bill Self said on Friday that Buford has accepted an assistant coach job with the NBA\u2019s Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great gig for him, and happy for him, and he did a really good job here,\u201d Self said.<\/p>\n

Buford, a former walk-on player under Self from 2007 to 2010, departs Self\u2019s coaching staff after one year. His hiring as an analyst was officially announced on June 14, 2024, though his title soon shifted to assistant coach.<\/p>\n

Buford previously served as the head coach of the Sydney Kings of Australia\u2019s National Basketball League, with whom he won a pair of league championships, and in several positions in the NBA G League, including as the head coach of the Wisconsin Herd. He is the son of R.C. Buford, Self\u2019s longtime friend who helped get Self his first role as a graduate assistant on KU\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n

He returns to the NBA after having previously worked as a scout and in the video department for the Atlanta Hawks, as well as in the role of coordinator of player development for the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n

Now, he will join David Adelman\u2019s staff in Denver. Adelman took over as Denver\u2019s interim head coach after Michael Malone was fired late in the regular season and steered the Nuggets through their playoff run before earning the full-time role. <\/p>\n

This is the third major staffing change of the offseason for KU. Self\u2019s longtime assistant coach Norm Roberts retired and was replaced with past Jayhawk and former NBA head coach Jacque Vaughn. Fred Quartlebaum, who was serving as the director of basketball operations, left the program and was replaced by Lexi Price via an internal promotion. <\/p>\n

Self will now have a new vacancy to fill alongside his other assistant coaches: Vaughn, Jeremy Case, Joe Dooley and Kurtis Townsend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the process of looking into some different things, but I haven\u2019t done anything yet,\u201d Self said. \u201cI feel like I got the scope kind of narrowed down of what I think would be good for us, but I haven\u2019t done anything yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Written By Henry Greenstein<\/p>\n


\n Henry is the sports editor at the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com, and serves as the KU beat writer while managing day-to-day sports coverage. He previously worked as a sports reporter at The Bakersfield Californian and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Linguistics) and Arizona State University (M.A., Sports Journalism). Though a native of Los Angeles, he has frequently been told he does not give off “California vibes,” whatever that means. <\/p>\n

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