{"id":228336,"date":"2021-07-26T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=228336"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T08:57:42","slug":"wildcats-appoint-mike-kelly-as-associate-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wildcats-appoint-mike-kelly-as-associate-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats Appoint Mike Kelly as Associate Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"relative lg:flex lg:justify-end overflow-hidden w-full\" data-v-c78593be=\"\">\n<div class=\"flex-nowrap hidden lg:flex absolute bottom-0 left-0 w-1\/3 z-20 text-left\" data-v-c78593be=\"\">\n<div class=\"w-full xxl:w-1\/3\" data-v-c78593be=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5 lg:flex lg:my-10\" data-v-c78593be=\"\">\n<div class=\"lg:pl-0 xl:px-28 w-full relative\" data-v-c78593be=\"\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content text-base leading-tight tracking-normal font-normal whitespace-pre-wrap leading-normal\" data-v-c78593be=\"\">\n<p>The Perth Wildcats are delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Kelly as Associate Head Coach for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly joins the club following a two-year stint as head coach of the Cairns Taipans. Prior to his time in Queensland, he was an associate head coach at Melbourne United and a part of their 2018 NBL Championship.<\/p>\n<p>His coaching talents have also previously been on display in the American college system at Vanguard University and Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to having extensive NBL coaching experience, Kelly also has a rich NBL history as a player. He won a Championship in 1996 with South East Melbourne Magic and was awarded Grand Final MVP for his efforts, along with back-to-back NBL Best Defensive Player awards in 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 NBL Coach of the Year says he can\u2019t wait to head west and start working with the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super excited to have the opportunity to be a part of such a great club, with so many great people.\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the chance to coach again in the NBL and be a part of a team with some guys I\u2019ve coached before, Mitch, Todd and Majok, I\u2019ve always heard great things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it will be a great fit, the way the Wildcats have played since I was a player and a coach fits the way I go about things, I\u2019ll be another piece of the hard-working machine and I\u2019ll do everything I can to help this group win games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perth Wildcats CEO Troy Georgiu is excited to welcome Mike Kelly to the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike has a wealth of experience and ability and we are thrilled to have him come on board as Associate Head Coach of the Perth Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe he will be a great fit for the club, both on and off the court, and can\u2019t wait for his arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Kelly will arrive in Perth later today.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s recruitment process for a head coach is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perth Wildcats are delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Kelly as Associate Head Coach for the next two seasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":228337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-228336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/E7NSyKdVIAITmbS.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228336"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=228336"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=228336"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=228336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}