3:11pm: The Suns have officially announced the hiring of Young as an assistant coach.
2:39pm: Sixers assistant Kevin Young won’t remain on Philadelphia’s staff under Doc Rivers, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, who reports (via Twitter) that Young has agreed to join Monty Williams‘ coaching staff with the Suns.
Young, who began his career as a G League coach, was promoted from the Delaware 87ers to Brett Brown‘s staff in 2016. He received another promotion to the front of the bench two years later, and then interviewed for Philadelphia’s head coaching job following Brown’s ouster this year.
Wojnarowski reported last week that Young made a “strong impression” on the 76ers during that head coaching interview, but with Rivers putting together his own staff, Young won’t be returning to Philadelphia for the 2020/21 season.
In Phoenix, Young will reunite with Williams – who served as a Sixers assistant during the 2018/19 season – and should fill the hole on the coaching staff created by Darko Rajakovic‘s departure last month.
311 was an inside job
I heard the suns were going Young.
He didn’t want to be associated with a 3/1 and out coach.
Ugh, that was pretty lame. Better luck next time (seriously, keep trying because you’ll eventually get it).
There seems to be mutiple Kevin Youngs in basketball. This one presumably is blonde, Georgian, Mormon, 38, career coach. Another is an expressive Puerto Rican, 30, on teams from Canada, LA, Kansas, all over the GL. A third has shown up in some reports and Bing images who looks like an older version of the second.link to inquirer.com
HR should run more pictures in the article’s body since the headline photo does not show up in some formats, or is very small if so.