{"id":140409,"date":"2025-08-12T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:10:11","slug":"phoenix-suns-finalize-new-coach-jordan-otts-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140409\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns finalize new coach Jordan Ott\u2019s coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Changes abound for the Phoenix Suns as they look to rebound from a disappointing season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Suns on Monday announced the final 2025-26 coaching staff of new head coach Jordan Ott. It includes both experienced play callers and former players who recently got into coaching.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns coaching staff: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"list | article-list\">\n<li>Jordan Ott &#8211; head coach<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Mermuys &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>DeMarre Carroll &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>Brian Randle &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>Chaisson Allen &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>John Little &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>Mike Muscala &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>Sean Dwyer &#8211; assistant coach<\/li>\n<li>Mateen Cleaves &#8211; player development\/leadership assistant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Suns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/06\/04\/phoenix-suns-hire-jordan-ott-new-head-coach-sources-confirm\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/06\/04\/phoenix-suns-hire-jordan-ott-new-head-coach-sources-confirm\/\">hired Ott in June<\/a> after splitting ways with Mike Budenholzer following just one season that ended in disappointment and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/04\/10\/phoenix-suns-eliminated-playoff-contention-high-priced-experiment-comes-close\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/04\/10\/phoenix-suns-eliminated-playoff-contention-high-priced-experiment-comes-close\/\">missed postseason<\/a>. Budenholzer replaced Frank Vogel before last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ott worked under Budenholzer as the Hawks\u2019 video coordinator from 2013 to 2016. He was most recently an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers went 64-18 in the 2024-25 season with Ott as an assistant, leading them to the No. 1 seed in the East for the 2025 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Changes abound for the Phoenix Suns as they look to rebound from a disappointing season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,40791,40793,83852,1589,7183,83849,83850,83851,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-140409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-demarre-carroll","13":"tag-jordan-ott","14":"tag-mike-muscala","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-phoenix-news","17":"tag-phoenix-suns-coaches","18":"tag-suns-coaches","19":"tag-suns-coaching-staff","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017378930367090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}