The Boston Celtics can win the NBA championship with a victory in Recreation 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday evening, nevertheless it seems that is also their ultimate sport with assistant coach Sam Cassell.
Veteran NBA author Marc Stein reported on Substack Thursday that the Milwaukee Bucks are anticipated to make a “important” supply to Cassell this offseason. The supply would reportedly be for Cassell to turn out to be Milwaukee’s lead assistant coach.
Cassell, 54, is in his first season as an assistant for Boston. However he has already amassed a decade-and-a-half of complete NBA assistant teaching expertise and has lots of historical past with Milwaukee head coach Doc Rivers, his former head coach on the 2008 Celtics. Cassell has served as an assistant underneath Rivers on each the LA Clippers and the Philadelphia 76ers (spanning 9 complete seasons). He additionally performed for the Bucks himself from 1999-2003.
Milwaukee did already rent a really notable identify to reportedly function Rivers’ lead assistant, so it’s unclear if that will change ought to Cassell come aboard. However what is obvious is that the Celtics are being raided for his or her staffing expertise.
Lead Boston assistant Charles Lee will turn out to be the brand new head coach of the Charlotte Hornets after the season, and guide Jeff Van Gundy is being critically pursued by a Western Convention group. Now it seems like Cassell could possibly be the subsequent one to just accept an NBA job elsewhere.
