{"id":703313,"date":"2026-04-07T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:13:43","slug":"unc-to-hire-former-nuggets-coach-michael-malone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703313\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC to hire former Nuggets coach Michael Malone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48413287\/unc-hire-ex-nba-coach-michael-malone-hc-sources-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UNC will hire former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone as its next head coach, according to ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Malone will replace Hubert Davis, who was fired after a second consecutive first-round exit from the NCAA Tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Malone, 54, has a connection to the university: his daughter plays for the volleyball team. Malone was spotted at UNC basketball practices over the past year. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNC will hire former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone as its next head coach, according to ESPN&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-703313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116363605208253967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703313","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=703313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}