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He assumed the same role for back-to-back games against the Denver Nuggets on December 27 and 28, with Brown entering health and safety protocols. [10] Before the game on December 27, Nuggets' head coach, Michael Malone, whom Fernández worked under in his previous coaching stop, said, "I think one day Jordi will be a head coach in this league ...
Here are three things to know about Brooklyn's new head coach: Jordi Fernandez is first Spanish-born NBA head coach. December 16, 2023; Sacramento, California, USA; Sacramento Kings associate head ...
Fernandez takes over for Kevin Ollie, who was named interim coach when Jacque Vaughn was fired in February. Fernandez will lead a team that finished 32-50 this season, missing the playoffs for the ...
Jordi Fernandez, 41, has been regarded as one of the NBA’s best young assistant coaches over the past few years. Report: Brooklyn Nets hiring Sacramento Kings assistant Jordi Fernandez as head coach
On June 27, 2023, Sacramento Kings assistant coach Jordi Fernández was hired to replace Nick Nurse as Team Canada's head coach. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Leading up to the 2023 FIBA World Cup , Canada Basketball announced a five-game exhibition series where they would play matches in Germany and Spain, against some of the top nations in the world.
In 2000, Igor Kokoškov from Serbia became the first non-American to hold a full-time assistant coach position in the NBA. [1] In 2004, he became the first non-American assistant coach to win an NBA championship, and the first to serve on an NBA All-Star Game coaching staff. [2] In 2018, he became the first fully European head coach in the NBA. [3]
Fernandez will now be the Nets' fourth full-time head coach since 2020. Vaughn, a longtime assistant in the organization, took over for Steve Nash after he was fired just seven games into last season.
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra is the second longest-tenured NBA head coach, having been head coach of the Heat since the 2008–09 season. Popovich is the only active head coach inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. [1] He is the only current head coach to have been hired by his current team in the 1990s.