{"id":814719,"date":"2026-08-18T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/814719\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:18:27","slug":"sweeney-hires-ex-michigan-coach-beilein-as-magic-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/814719\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeney hires ex-Michigan coach Beilein as Magic consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Sweeney is a new, young NBA head coach. In his first season leading the Orlando Magic<\/a>, he will get some help from the winningest coach in Michigan men\u2019s basketball history.<\/p>\n

John Beilein, who won 278 games at Michigan and led the program to two national championship appearances, will serve as a consultant to Sweeney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sweeney, 42, is in his first year as a head coach. He\u2019s been in the NBA since 2011, mostly as an assistant coach. He served in that role with the San Antonio Spurs last season. He was hired by the Magic on June 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beilein, 73, has been out of coaching since 2023 after spending two years as a senior advisor of player development for the Detroit Pistons. He started the 2019-20 season as the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers before resigning after 54 games.<\/p>\n

He coached at Michigan for 12 years and was also at West Virginia, Richmond and Canisius. The Wolverines reached the title game in 2013 and 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to be assisting\u00a0Sean Sweeney\u00a0and the Orlando Magic as a senior coaching consultant this upcoming NBA season,\u201d Beilein posted on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cSean has a brilliant future as an NBA head coach, and I\u2019m honored he has asked me to serve him and the Magic in this capacity. I look forward to supporting the coaching staff and contributing in any way I can to the organization\u2019s continued growth and success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beilein and Sweeney crossed paths with the Pistons. Sweeney was an assistant in Detroit for three seasons. Beilein, who spends his winters in Florida, will share his thoughts on games and practices.<\/p>\n

Sweeney has said he wants to have a variety of voices<\/a> around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want guys who have skill sets that are not the same as mine,\u201d he has said previously. \u201cI want people that are different to me. I want people that can carry a message in their own voice and can help me be a better coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DetroitNew Magic head coach Sean Sweeney, bottom right, was a Detroit Pistons assistant coach for three seasons when he met John Beilein, who he just hired as an Orlando consultant. Beilin was an advisor in Detroit at the time. Here, Sweeney instructs players during the second half of a game against the Magic on Feb. 23, 2021, in Orlando. (Phelan M. Ebenhack\/AP file)<\/p>\n

The Magic, who went 45-37 last season, have lost in the first round of the playoffs each of the past three seasons. Their most recent playoff exit was against the Detroit Pistons. Orlando blew a 3-1 series. The result led to the firing of coach Jamahl Mosley<\/a> after five seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Sweeney is a new, young NBA head coach. In his first season leading the Orlando Magic, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,165,48,6,47,76,3883,1412,80939,66],"class_list":["post-814719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-basketball","tag-latest-headlines","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-social","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117115532669398650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814719","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=814719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}