The Oklahoma City Thunder have hired Chip Engelland and Grant Gibbs as assistant coaches. Engelland and Gibbs join current Thunder assistants Dave Bliss, Mike Wilks and David Akinyooye, as well as Assistant Coach/Player Development Eric Maynor and Assistant Coach/Program Development Connor Johnson, on Head Coach Mark Daigneault’s staff. Additionally, Kameron Woods has been named head
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A former vice president of the National Basketball Players Association was arrested Wednesday and added to a criminal case in which 18 former NBA players were charged with illegally pocketing millions of dollars by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan. The rewritten indictment added Keyon Dooling to the case first brought in October,
Crew-4 astronauts, from left, Jessica Watkins, mission specialist; Bob Hines, pilot; Kjell Lindgren, commander and Samantha Cristoforetti, mission specialist, are positioned inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom. Crew-4 launched to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27, 2022. Photo: SpaceX Back in
Assistant coach David Vanterpool’s interference during the Nets’ narrow victory over the Wizards on Wednesday night cost him and the team some cash. The NBA fined Vanterpool $10,000 and fined the Nets $25,000, the league announced, after video was captured of the assistant coach interfering with a play. The Nets were ahead by six points
WASHINGTON — The Nets’ best defensive play Wednesday night didn’t come on the court, but from the bench — from a coach. In the fourth quarter of the Nets’ 119-118 victory over the Wizards, assistant David Vanterpool caused a turnover by reaching out toward the court and deflecting a pass from former Net Spencer Dinwiddie.
NEW YORK — The NBA fined Sacramento Kings assistant general manager Wes Wilcox $15,000 and the team $50,000 on Thursday for violating league rules prohibiting team owners and executives from interacting with scorer’s table personnel during game play. The NBA said Wilcox left his seat to confront operations personnel at the scorer’s table about the
The Portland Trail Blazers have named Rodney Billups as an assistant coach. Billups, 38, is the younger brother of Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. Billups joins the Portland staff from Milwaukee where he served as a scout for the Bucks this season. Prior to that he was the head coach at the University of
NBA fines Kings assistant GM Wilcox $15,000, team $50,000 Updated: 7:09 PM PST Jan 6, 2022 Hide Transcript Show Transcript TO ME, THAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN THE GAME. >> THE NBA FIND THE SACRAMENTO KINGS $50,000, PLUS ETH ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF THE KINGS WES WILCOX, WAS FINED $15,000 TODAY FOR VIOLATING LEAGUE RULES