Utah Jazz assistant coach Alex Jensen, proven right here talking with guard Donovan Mitchell in Summer season League motion within the Huntsman Heart in 2017, received’t be returning to Will Hardy’s employees subsequent season. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Issues are trying up for Jazz massive man Walker Kessler, who completed third in Rookie of the Yr voting. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
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There’s going to be some teaching modifications for the Utah Jazz within the 2023-24 season.
Don’t fear, Will Hardy isn’t leaving. However the Jazz’s longest-tenured assistant coach, Alex Jensen, in addition to assistant Irv Roland won't be returning to the bench underneath Hardy subsequent yr. The Athletic was the primary to report the information and the Deseret Information confirmed it with crew sources.
This shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock. Though Jensen has been on employees by means of three Jazz coaches — Ty Corbin, Quin Snyder and Hardy — and Roland was inherited from Snyder’s employees, it’s comprehensible and regular for a coach to need to rent their very own employees or make substantial modifications.
Really, a lot of the Jazz’s teaching employees final season have been holdovers from Snyder’s regime. Along with Jensen and Roland, Lamar Skeeter, Bryan Bailey and participant growth coaches Chris Jones and Sanjay Lumpkin, who all labored with Snyder, remained on employees with Hardy.
Previous to final season the Jazz additionally added Jason Terry to the teaching employees and Hardy introduced on Evan Bradds from the Boston Celtics and Sean Sheldon from the San Antonio Spurs.
Hardy has praised the Jazz teaching employees many instances over the past yr and by no means had something detrimental to say about his expertise with any of them. Although after the Jazz’s season was over, he did insinuate that there could possibly be some change coming.
“It is a league of change,” he mentioned. “There’s at all times instances the place individuals get jobs or name about individuals which can be in your employees. We by no means need to maintain individuals again from nice alternatives for them and their household.”
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Easy methods to move the time within the offseason
Yearly throughout the offseason I do spring cleansing, although as a result of I’m normally nonetheless masking a crew within the playoffs, it’s really summer time cleansing.
This week, as I used to be going by means of my garments and placing collectively donation baggage of issues I haven’t worn all yr and scanning my bookshelves for books that I’m lastly able to half with, I spotted that I used to be really doing my spring cleansing within the spring.
Then, as a result of I'm simply distracted from a job and love a purpose to analysis a subject, I puzzled the place the phrase “spring cleansing” originated. So this week, not solely do you get a pleasant reminder that it’s time to declutter and donate to these in want, however you additionally get an etymology lesson!
The origins of spring cleansing will be traced again greater than 3,000 years and it’s believed that it comes from the Iranian Nowruz, also called the Persian New Yr. The follow of khaneh tekani — which interprets to “shaking the home” — contains sweeping up mud and eradicating muddle within the perception that it will stop ill-fortune within the upcoming yr.
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Stat of the week
Utah Jazz rookie Walker Kessler completed third in NBA Rookie of the Yr award voting behind winner Paolo Banchero of the Orlando Magic and runner-up Jalen Williams of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder. Kessler obtained two first-place votes, 17 second-place votes and 53 third-pace votes. Banchero obtained 98 out of 100 first-place votes.
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- Ryan Smith says bringing the NHL to Utah is ‘in movement’ (Deseret Information)
- Former Jazzman Dante Exum physique slammed throughout EuroLeague brawl (Deseret Information)
- Dwyane Wade says he left Florida due to anti-LGBTQ insurance policies (Salt Lake Tribune)
Across the league
Boston Celtics remove Quin Snyder’s Atlanta Hawks from the playoffs.
Jimmy Butler and the Miami Warmth oust No. 1 seed Milwaukee Bucks in first spherical.
Sixers nonetheless not sure of Joel Embiid’s standing for Recreation 1 of semifinal spherical towards Celtics.
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Issues are trying up for Jazz massive man Walker Kessler, who completed third in Rookie of the Yr voting.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information