Charles Lee is proven in the course of the Atlanta Hawks’ media day Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in Atlanta. AP
One of many preliminary candidates to exchange Quin Snyder as head coach of the Utah Jazz has reportedly gotten a promotion at his present job.
On Saturday, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Charles Lee is getting promoted to affiliate head coach, though Charania reported that Lee remains to be is within the operating for the Jazz’s opening.
Sources: Bucks are selling assistant Charles Lee to affiliate head coach underneath Mike Budenholzer. Lee has been a head teaching candidate for a number of groups over the previous two seasons, and stays a candidate for the Jazz’s present opening. Milwaukee prioritized a brand new deal for Lee.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 11, 2022
Lee is relatively younger within the NBA teaching world at age 37, however he has been a rising star since changing into an assistant in 2014 underneath present Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer with the Atlanta Hawks.
Sarcastically, Lee was employed then by the Hawks partly to exchange Snyder, who had left a number of months earlier to guide the Jazz.
After Budenholzer and Lee had been collectively for 4 years in Atlanta, Budenholzer introduced Lee to Milwaukee in 2018 when he modified jobs.
For 3 consecutive years, ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz has included Lee on his annual record of names individuals in NBA circles are speaking about as future head coaches within the league.
In this yr’s installment of the record revealed final month, Arnovitz wrote that Lee “has established himself as a multitool coach who tasks confidence, emotional and tactical intelligence and affability. Colleagues marvel at his capability to narrate to everybody, be it a two-way participant (Lee performed professionally abroad for 4 seasons) to an proprietor (he labored as a dealer on Wall Avenue).
“Various executives and coaches say that had Lee performed one minute within the NBA (or had NBA bloodlines), he’d be gainfully employed as a head coach in the present day. Such is the case within the NBA circa 2022, the place house owners and entrance places of work more and more favor those that have an NBA entry on Basketball Reference.”