The Golden State Warriors boosted their coaching staff significantly ahead of the 2024-25 NBA season.
The Dubs have hired veteran coach Terry Stotts to be their lead assistant coach under Steve Kerr, according to league insider Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Additionally, former NBA player Jerry Stackhouse has been hired as an assistant coach after five seasons as a head coach at the college basketball level at Vanderbilt.
Stotts will return for his second stint as an assistant coach for the Warriors, having previously served the same role during the 2004-05 season.
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The 66-year-old last worked with the Milwaukee Bucks as an assistant in 2023 in a short-lived stint, resigning before the 2023-24 season started following an alleged incident with then-head coach Adrian Griffin.
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Stotts is best known for being the former head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers for most of the Damian Lillard era, from 2012 to 2021.
During this time, the Blazers faced the Warriors three times in the NBA Playoffs, wherein they lost all of the matchups, two of which were sweeps.
Meanwhile, Stackhouse had an 18-season NBA playing career from 1995 to 2013 and made the NBA All-Star Game twice in 2000 and 2001.
The 6-foot-6 wing began coaching as an assistant for the Toronto Raptors after his playing career, eventually becoming head coach of their G-League affiliate, Raptors 905.
He then became an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies for one season before taking on the Vanderbilt job.
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