{"id":647916,"date":"2026-03-09T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:17:39","slug":"georgia-tech-fires-head-coach-damon-stoudamire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647916\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech Fires Head Coach Damon Stoudamire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Yellow Jackets went on a 12-game losing streak to end their season, seeing them finish 2-16 in the ACC. Stoudamire, a former NBA guard who spent eight seasons with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>, coached Georgia Tech for three years, finishing with a combined record of 42-55. Georgia Tech owes Stoudamire an additional $2.6 million over the next two years. Greg Gary has been named the interim head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prior to his head coaching role with the Yellow Jackets, Stoudamire was on the coaching staff across numerous NCAA men\u2019s basketball programs, including the Memphis Tigers and Arizona Wildcats. He was the head coach of the Pacific Tigers from 2016 to 2021, leaving to join the Boston Celtics\u2019 coaching staff. In 2023, Stoudamire accepted the head coaching position at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yellow Jackets went on a 12-game losing streak to end their season, seeing them finish 2-16 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,3175,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-647916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116196346746254446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647916","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=647916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}