{"id":431553,"date":"2025-03-06T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=431553"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:35:50","slug":"miami-hires-dukes-jai-lucas-as-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-hires-dukes-jai-lucas-as-next-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami hires Duke\u2019s Jai Lucas as next head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"866\">The <strong data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"768\">University of Miami<\/strong> has named <strong data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"792\">Jai Lucas<\/strong> as its new <strong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"818\">head coach<\/strong>, signaling a fresh direction for the program.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"1193\">Lucas, <strong data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"881\">36<\/strong>, has built a strong coaching r\u00e9sum\u00e9 with <strong data-start=\"923\" data-end=\"931\">Duke<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"933\" data-end=\"945\">Kentucky<\/strong> under <strong data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"969\">John Calipari<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"984\">Texas<\/strong>, where he also played. Known for his player development skills, Lucas is a rising coaching talent. <strong data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1093\">Miami<\/strong> is betting on his energy and experience to elevate the program in the highly competitive <strong data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1190\">ACC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"653\" data-end=\"675\"><em data-start=\"653\" data-end=\"661\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"673\">On3Sports<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Miami is hiring Duke associate head coach Jai Lucas as the Hurricanes next head coach, source tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@On3sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas, 36, joined Duke as an assistant in 2022 after a couple years under John Calipari at Kentucky. A native of Houston, Lucas also spent time at Texas as an\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XkfwLOo5Ry\">pic.twitter.com\/XkfwLOo5Ry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1897415945620005317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/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 University of Miami has named Jai Lucas as its new head coach, signaling a fresh direction for the program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":431552,"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":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-431553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Miami-Hurricanes.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431553","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=431553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431553"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=431553"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=431553"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=431553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}