{"id":431607,"date":"2025-03-06T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=431607"},"modified":"2025-03-06T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:54:57","slug":"dallas-mavericks-assistant-alex-jensen-hired-as-utahs-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-assistant-alex-jensen-hired-as-utahs-next-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks assistant Alex Jensen hired as Utah&#8217;s next head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"812\">The <strong data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"699\">University of Utah<\/strong> has officially hired <strong data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"736\">Alex Jensen<\/strong> as its next <strong data-start=\"749\" data-end=\"763\">head coach<\/strong>, bringing back one of its former star players.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"1095\">Jensen, currently an assistant with the <strong data-start=\"854\" data-end=\"874\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong>, has over a decade of <strong data-start=\"897\" data-end=\"924\">NBA coaching experience<\/strong>, including a stint as <strong data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"998\">head coach of the Canton Charge in the G League<\/strong>. Now, he returns to lead <strong data-start=\"1024\" data-end=\"1053\">Utah&#8217;s basketball program<\/strong>, aiming to build on its rich tradition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dallas Mavericks assistant Alex Jensen has accepted the job as the next coach at Utah, sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffborzello?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jeffborzello<\/a>. He\u2019s a former star player there and has been an NBA assistant since 2013. He\u2019s a former head coach of the Canton Charge in the G League.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/1897690186122690851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 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 Utah has officially hired Alex Jensen as its next head coach, bringing back one of its former star players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":431606,"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-431607","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\/Utah-Utes.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431607","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=431607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431607"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=431607"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=431607"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=431607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}