{"id":6621,"date":"2025-06-23T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6621\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:23:16","slug":"sean-sweeney-accepts-coaching-job-with-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6621\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Sweeney accepts coaching job with San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mavericks assistant coach Sean Sweeney accepted an offer to become associate head coach with the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday, first reported by ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a> before being confirmed by other local sources.<\/p>\n

Sweeney has been the longtime right-hand man for Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd, following Kidd from Brooklyn to Milwaukee and then Dallas. Sweeney interviewed for head coaching positions previously since arriving in Dallas, being a finalist for the Detroit and Phoenix jobs. Now Sweeney joins Spurs coach Mitch Johnson, who is replacing the retired Gregg Poppovich.<\/p>\n

By all accounts Sweeney was seen as a sort of defensive coordinator under Kidd, with ESPN\u2019s Tim MacMahon noting<\/a> Sweeney had influence for both the offense and defense while with the Mavericks. Recently the Mavericks added former head coach Jay Triano to Kidd\u2019s staff<\/a>, and presumably Triano will be the new lead assistant with Sweeney departing. Reports indicate that other Mavericks assistants could be on the move as well, with Jaredy Dudley and God Shamgod drawing interest from across the league. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Chris Mannix says<\/a> both Sweeney and Dudley \u201care viewed as future NBA head coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a normal offseason, none of this would really raise an eyebrow \u2014 turnover among assistant coaches is normal, as coaches try to climb the ladder, advance their careers, and position themselves to earn an opportunity to become a head coach. However the Mavericks last six months have been anything but normal since the Luka Doncic trade, and with the Mavericks disastorious season in the rearview mirror combined with the Knicks flirtation with Kidd last month<\/a>, it\u2019s not surprising to see current Mavericks coaches pounce on opportunities they can find. If the Mavericks next season goes down with another playoff absence, it wouldn\u2019t be shocking to see the organization start to clean house. It makes sense these coaches are reading the tea leaves and moving on while it\u2019s still their decision.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no sense in trying to predict how Sweeney\u2019s departure and any further coaching movement will affect the Mavericks in the standings next season, but it\u2019s clear he was an important cog to Kidd\u2019s staff and earned the players\u2019 respect. Good on Sweeney for parlaying that work into a promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks assistant coach Sean Sweeney accepted an offer to become associate head coach with the San Antonio Spurs…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[8040,5229,1625,8041,204,8042,8045,8043,8044,1624,7202,7203,8038,7199,8039,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1917],"class_list":{"0":"post-6621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-accepts","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-antonio","11":"tag-coaching","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-job","14":"tag-mavericks-news","15":"tag-mavs","16":"tag-moneyball","17":"tag-san","18":"tag-san-antonio","19":"tag-sanantonio","20":"tag-sean","21":"tag-spurs","22":"tag-sweeney","23":"tag-texas","24":"tag-tx","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114729831904101573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","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=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}