{"id":393674,"date":"2024-06-24T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=393674"},"modified":"2024-06-24T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:26:18","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-to-hire-kenny-atkinson-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cleveland-cavaliers-to-hire-kenny-atkinson-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers to hire Kenny Atkinson as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers have chosen to hire Kenny Atkinson, currently an assistant with the Golden State Warriors, as their new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides have begun drafting a contract, which is expected to be finalized soon. The Cavaliers&#8217; selection process had narrowed down to two finalists: Atkinson and James Borrego, the associate head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson, the lead assistant for the Warriors, will be taking over a Cavaliers roster that has advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals and won 99 regular-season games over the past two seasons. In Cleveland, he will be reunited with two key players who flourished under his leadership with the Brooklyn Nets: Jarrett Allen and Caris LeVert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ESPN Sources: The Cleveland Cavaliers are hiring Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson as the franchise\u2019s next head coach and sides are working on a contract that\u2019s expected to be completed soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x60kBtvQDQ\">pic.twitter.com\/x60kBtvQDQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1805243047996756387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: The Cleveland Cavaliers are hiring Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson as the franchise&#8217;s new head coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ddWGgkdMtr\">pic.twitter.com\/ddWGgkdMtr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1805243156373328335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers have chosen to hire Kenny Atkinson, currently an assistant with the Golden State Warriors, as their new head coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-393674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Cleveland-Cavaliers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393674","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=393674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393674"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=393674"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=393674"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=393674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}