Nick Nurse will not be the next coach of the Bucks and it is one of his assistants who should inherit the position.
The Athletic and ESPN announce that Nick Nurse is no longer in the race to take over from Mike Budenholzer in Wisconsin, and the club will therefore decide between Adrian Griffin And Kenny Atkinson.
The former has been Nick Nurse’s right-hand man at the Raptors since 2018, so he was champion in 2019. The latter is Steve Kerr’s right-hand man at the Warriors, especially after Mike Brown left for the Kings.
According to ESPN, it’s Adrian Griffin who should get the job and it’s a little surprise because the 48-year-old man (who is the father of AJ Griffin, the Hawks winger) has never been ” head coach” in the NBA and it is therefore a bet to hire a rookie coach to revive a Bucks team, admittedly eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, but whose group was champion only two years ago.
A former winger who passed through Boston, Dallas or Chicago in the early 2000s, Adrian Griffin is not inexperienced, however, since he has been an NBA assistant since 2008. First at the Bucks (2008-2010) then at the Bulls (2010- 2015), the Magic (2015-2016), the Thunder (2016-2018) and therefore finally the Raptors (2018-2023).
