{"id":720619,"date":"2026-04-28T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/720619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:57:15","slug":"pelicans-hope-to-interview-former-warriors-guard-for-head-coach-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/720619\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans hope to interview former Warriors guard for head coach vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New Orleans Pelicans have requested permission to interview Detroit Pistons assistant coach Jarrett Jack for their vacant head coach position, according to report by Jake Fischer and Mark Stein of <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-lots-happening-leaguewide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Stein Line<\/a>. Jack has been an assistant coach with the Pistons since August 2023, but is most well known for his 13-year playing career, which included a stint with the Golden State Warriors in the 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAlso: Sources say that the Pelicans have requested permission to interview Pistons assistant coach Jarrett Jack, who spent three seasons in New Orleans as a player and is in the midst of Detroit\u2019s difficult first-round series with Orlando,\u201d write Fischer and Stein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Jack last played in the NBA in 2018, he stuck around in the G-League for multiple years, finishing off as a veteran mentor on the experimental G-League Ignite. After his stint with the Ignite, he became an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns in 2021, where he worked until he joined the Pistons staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite his journeyman career, playing for eight teams, Jack made a strong impression with Dub Nation during his lone season with the Warriors. That season, Jack averaged 12.9 points, 5.6 assists, and 3.8 rebounds in 29.7 minutes per game (79 games) on 45.2%\/40.4%\/84.3% shooting and finished third in the league\u2019s Sixth Man of the Year voting, the best finish of his career. The Warriors finished the season 47-35, reaching the playoffs for the first time since the \u201cWe Believe\u201d team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jack was even more productive in the playoffs, finishing second on the team in scoring behind Steph Curry. He recorded 17.2 points, 4.7 assists, and 4.4 rebounds in 35.5 minutes per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Jack was pivotal in helping the Warriors upset the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs and pushing the San Antonio Spurs to a six-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Pelicans have requested permission to interview Detroit Pistons assistant coach Jarrett Jack for their vacant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,5842,6,37651,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":["post-720619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-general","tag-nba","tag-nba-news-and-rumors","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116484573997119333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720619","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=720619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}