{"id":444120,"date":"2025-05-28T09:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=444120"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:33:04","slug":"johnnie-bryant-joins-suns-coaching-search-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/johnnie-bryant-joins-suns-coaching-search-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnnie Bryant joins Suns\u2019 coaching search finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns\u2019 coaching search continues to take shape, and another name has entered the mix. According to league sources, Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Johnnie Bryant is now considered a finalist for the head coaching position.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant joins the previously reported candidates: Chris Quinn (Miami Heat), Sean Sweeney (Dallas Mavericks), and Jordan Ott (also from Cleveland). Known for his work in player development, Bryant is viewed as a rising coaching prospect with strong leadership traits. Phoenix is clearly focused on a new generation of head coaches to lead its star-studded roster into the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yesterday&#8217;s around-the-NBA notes had three names as likely finalists in the Suns&#8217; coach search: Miami&#8217;s Chris Quinn, Dallas&#8217; Sean Sweeney and Cleveland&#8217;s Jordan Ott.<\/p>\n<p>Sources confirm today: Cavs assistant Johnnie Bryant is also a finalist.<\/p>\n<p>Monday story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oUQqVHpY1U\">https:\/\/t.co\/oUQqVHpY1U<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FjDc8WhpfI\">https:\/\/t.co\/FjDc8WhpfI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1927518030151745780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 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>Cavs assistant coach Johnnie Bryant is now also among the reported finalists for the Phoenix Suns\u2019 head coaching job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"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":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-444120","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\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444120","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=444120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444120"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=444120"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=444120"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=444120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}