{"id":491593,"date":"2026-04-06T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491593"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:27:57","slug":"north-carolina-targets-michael-malone-former-nuggets-coach-set-for-tar-heels-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/north-carolina-targets-michael-malone-former-nuggets-coach-set-for-tar-heels-job\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina targets Michael Malone: former Nuggets coach set for Tar Heels job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1999\" data-end=\"2277\"><strong data-start=\"1999\" data-end=\"2017\">North Carolina<\/strong> is reportedly moving toward <strong data-start=\"2046\" data-end=\"2064\">Michael Malone<\/strong> as the next leader of its men\u2019s basketball program. ESPN reported that the school intends to make Malone its next coach, signaling a major shift toward an NBA-tested profile.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2279\" data-end=\"2573\">For Malone, it would mark a high-profile jump into college basketball after building his reputation at the NBA level. He won an NBA championship with the <strong data-start=\"2433\" data-end=\"2451\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"2455\" data-end=\"2466\">2022-23<\/strong> and has been credited with <strong data-start=\"2494\" data-end=\"2513\">510 career wins<\/strong> as an NBA head coach.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2575\" data-end=\"2830\">If completed, the move would give the Tar Heels one of the most recognizable coaching hires in the sport. As of now, though, the reporting describes North Carolina\u2019s intention, not an official university announcement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2832\" data-end=\"2848\"><em data-start=\"2832\" data-end=\"2846\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN, North Carolina intends to hire Michael Malone as its next men\u2019s basketball coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":430012,"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":[407,175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/University-North-Carolina.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491593","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=491593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491593"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491593"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491593"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}