{"id":714194,"date":"2026-04-19T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714194\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:18:21","slug":"kim-english-changes-mind-leaves-unc-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714194\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim English Changes Mind, Leaves UNC Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 After accepting a position on Michael Malone<\/a>\u2019s staff last week, former Providence head coach Kim English<\/a> has decided not to take the job at UNC, Inside Carolina has confirmed. Pete Thamel of ESPN first reported the development Sunday.<\/p>\n

English arrived and began working in Chapel Hill on Wednesday, sources confirmed, becoming the second outside addition to Malone\u2019s staff, joining Chuck Martin, who arrived from University of Arkansas last week.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old spent the last three seasons as Providence\u2019s head coach, where he posted a 48-52 overall record and a 23-37 mark in Big East play before being fired on March 13 following a season-ending loss to St. John\u2019s in the Big East Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a promising 21-14 debut season that included a 10-10 conference finish, the Friars went a combined 27-38 overall and 13-27 in league play over his final two years.<\/p>\n

\u201c(English) is a young coach, but he\u2019s a very good coach,\u201d St. John\u2019s head coach Rick Pitino said after English\u2019s final game in March. \u201cHe communicates well with his team\u2026 He\u2019s going to have a long career. He\u2019s a very good basketball coach \u2014 he gets his teams to play hard, and they like him a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before taking the Providence job, the Baltimore, Md. native spent two seasons (2021-23) as the head coach at George Mason, where he led the Patriots to a 34-29 overall record and an 18-16 mark in Atlantic 10 play.<\/p>\n

English arrived at George Mason after spending two seasons (2019-21) on staff under Rick Barnes at Tennessee. Prior to his time in Knoxville, he spent two seasons (2017-19) at Colorado under Tad Boyle and two (2015-17) at Tulsa under Frank Haith, including one as director of player development before being promoted to assistant coach.<\/p>\n

As a player, English spent four seasons (2008-12) at Missouri, where he averaged 11.1 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game while earning Third-Team All-Big 12 honors twice. He was selected with the No. 44 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft and transitioned into coaching after a three-year professional career that included time in both the NBA and overseas.<\/p>\n

Malone\u2019s staff now includes Martin, along with previously retained assistants Pat Sullivan, Sean May and Eric Hoots \u2014 as previously first reported by Inside Carolina. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs I continue to build a staff and have great coaches around me that cannot only help me, but also challenge me to become the best coach that I\u00a0 can be at this level,\u201d Malone said in his introductory press conference. \u201cAnd I have no doubt that\u2019s going to be a process that I attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 After accepting a position on Michael Malone\u2019s staff last week, former Providence head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,35775],"class_list":{"0":"post-714194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kim-english"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116433460352075314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714194","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=714194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}