{"id":107830,"date":"2025-06-18T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/107830\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:37:10","slug":"cleveland-native-joins-cavs-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/107830\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland native joins Cavs coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 A Cleveland native and former Cavs player is coming home.<\/p>\n<p>Jawad Williams has been hired as an assistant coach on Kenny Atkinson&#8217;s staff, according to News 5&#8217;s Camryn Justice.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cavs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Cavs<\/a> have hired St. Edward grad and former Cavaliers forward Jawad Williams as an assistant coach on Kenny Atkinson\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Camryn Justice (@camijustice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/camijustice\/status\/1935324507289567303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 18, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Williams was a small forward for the Cavs from 2009-11, scoring 340 points for Cleveland during his time with the team.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the Cavs after playing for three years at the University of North Carolina. He is also a graduate of St. Ed&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Williams worked as an assistant coach and director of player development for the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 A Cleveland native and former Cavs player is coming home. Jawad Williams has been hired as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6,4128,4129],"class_list":{"0":"post-107830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news5cleveland","15":"tag-northeast-ohio-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114705822370481162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}