{"id":494597,"date":"2026-04-27T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494597"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:45:39","slug":"pelicans-add-steve-hetzel-to-coaching-search-nets-assistant-interviews-for-new-orleans-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pelicans-add-steve-hetzel-to-coaching-search-nets-assistant-interviews-for-new-orleans-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans add Steve Hetzel to coaching search, Nets assistant interviews for New Orleans job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2353\" data-end=\"2693\">The <strong data-start=\"2372\" data-end=\"2396\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> continue to expand their head coaching search, and <strong data-start=\"2448\" data-end=\"2464\">Steve Hetzel<\/strong> is now among the names in the mix. The current <strong data-start=\"2512\" data-end=\"2529\">Brooklyn Nets<\/strong> assistant has interviewed for the vacant position, joining a growing pool of candidates being considered by the organization.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2695\" data-end=\"2992\">Hetzel is part of <strong data-start=\"2713\" data-end=\"2734\">Jordi Fernandez\u2019s<\/strong> staff in Brooklyn and remained in place after the Nets recently extended both their head coach and assistant group. His name is also familiar in league circles, having previously surfaced in other NBA coaching searches.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2994\" data-end=\"3405\">The process in New Orleans remains open. <strong data-start=\"3035\" data-end=\"3052\">James Borrego<\/strong> is still viewed as an internal option, while other names recently linked to the Pelicans include <strong data-start=\"3150\" data-end=\"3192\">Darvin Ham, Sean Sweeney, Jarrett Jack<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3197\" data-end=\"3212\">Rajon Rondo<\/strong>. Basketball operations chief <strong data-start=\"3242\" data-end=\"3256\">Joe Dumars<\/strong> had already indicated that the franchise did not want to rush into a fixed shortlist too early in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Hetzel, an assistant coach with the Brooklyn Nets, has interviewed for the New Orleans Pelicans head coaching vacancy as the team continues to widen its search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371870,"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":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-494597","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\/New-Orleans-Pelicans.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494597","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=494597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494597"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494597"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494597"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}