{"id":440378,"date":"2025-05-02T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440378"},"modified":"2025-05-02T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:05:18","slug":"tuomas-iisalo-named-grizzlies-head-coach-becomes-first-finnish-nba-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tuomas-iisalo-named-grizzlies-head-coach-becomes-first-finnish-nba-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuomas Iisalo named Grizzlies head coach, becomes first Finnish NBA head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1312\" data-end=\"1574\">The <strong data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1352\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> have officially promoted <strong data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1395\">Tuomas Iisalo<\/strong> to <strong data-start=\"1399\" data-end=\"1413\">head coach<\/strong>, per <em data-start=\"1419\" data-end=\"1435\">Shams Charania<\/em>. After taking over as interim in late March, Iisalo now enters the record books as the <strong data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1571\">first Finnish-born head coach in NBA history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1790\">A former player in Finland with a 14-year professional career, Iisalo made his mark in Europe as a coach. He <strong data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1752\">won the EuroCup and was named EuroCup Coach of the Year in 2024<\/strong> before joining the Grizzlies staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1792\" data-end=\"1957\">This appointment underscores Memphis\u2019 trust in Iisalo\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"1900\">international experience and tactical leadership<\/strong>, as they aim to return to contention under his guidance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Memphis Grizzlies are hiring interim Tuomas Iisalo as the franchise&#8217;s next head coach, sources tell ESPN. Iisalo replaced Taylor Jenkins as interim in late March and is now the first Finnish-born head coach in NBA history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xdAImXix3\">pic.twitter.com\/4xdAImXix3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1918379865276895714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 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 Memphis Grizzlies have promoted Tuomas Iisalo to head coach, making him the first Finnish-born head coach in NBA history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375025,"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":[135],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Memphis-Grizzlies.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440378","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=440378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440378"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440378"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440378"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}