{"id":702267,"date":"2026-04-07T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/702267\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:02:35","slug":"oklahoma-sooners-hire-lucas-mckay-as-mens-basketball-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/702267\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Sooners hire Lucas McKay as men’s basketball GM"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma<\/a> has hired Lucas McKay as its first men’s basketball general manager.<\/p>\n

McKay, whose appointment was announced Monday, leaves Clemson<\/a>, where he had the same role. He has more than 20 years of experience in college basketball, including 14 years at Clemson under coach Brad Brownell.<\/p>\n

He joins an Oklahoma program that decided to retain coach Porter Moser after the Sooners finished 21-16 and lost to West Virginia<\/a> in the College Basketball Crown Tournament final.<\/p>\n

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“As this season ended, we took a critical look at how we must equip our men’s basketball program to compete for championships,” athletic director Roger Denny said in a statement. “We did so with a firm belief that sustained success requires not just continuity, but meaningful investment in the people, structure and resources around our program. The addition of Lucas McKay as general manager is a direct reflection of that commitment.”<\/p>\n

McKay will be Oklahoma’s chief front-office strategist and roster architect, with involvement in name, image and likeness deals and revenue sharing with players.<\/p>\n

He will have support from assistant general manager Trae Young<\/a>, particularly in the offseason. Young, a former Sooners star who currently plays for the Washington Wizards<\/a>, was named assistant GM last spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma has hired Lucas McKay as its first men’s basketball general manager. McKay, whose appointment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-702267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116360494996400947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702267","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=702267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}