{"id":117312,"date":"2025-06-22T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/117312\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:16:18","slug":"spurs-hire-mavericks-sean-sweeney-as-associate-head-coach-espn-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/117312\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs hire Mavericks\u2019 Sean Sweeney as associate head coach, ESPN reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeney most recently worked as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Sean Sweeney directs the team during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, in Minneapolis. Sweeney took over after head coach Jason Kidd was ejected during the third quarter. (AP Photo\/Abbie Parr) (Abbie Parr,  Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The San Antonio Spurs have hired Sean Sweeney as the team\u2019s new associate head coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1936889916509594053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1936889916509594053\">ESPN reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Sweeney has worked as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks since 2021. Before that, Sweeney was the assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons from 2018 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Sweeney reunited with Dallas head coach Jason Kidd after their previous work as a coaching duo for a season with the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 and from 2014 to 2018 with the Milwaukee Bucks, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nbacoaches.com\/sean-sweeney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nbacoaches.com\/sean-sweeney\/\">National Basketball Coaches Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to ESPN, Sweeney had interviewed for coaching jobs in recent years including the head-coach position for the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Sweeney will work alongside the Spurs\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/sports\/2024\/11\/04\/what-to-know-about-interim-spurs-head-coach-mitch-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/sports\/2024\/11\/04\/what-to-know-about-interim-spurs-head-coach-mitch-johnson\/\">new head coach Mitch Johnson<\/a>, who previously served as the team\u2019s interim head coach in the 2023-2024 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweeney most recently worked as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Sean Sweeney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,3361,6,969,66,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-117312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-mitch-johnson","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114729568506135287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117312","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=117312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}