{"id":1951494,"date":"2026-05-23T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1951494"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:38:22","slug":"darvin-ham-among-familiar-coaching-faces-to-join-taylor-jenkins-bucks-staff-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1951494","title":{"rendered":"Darvin Ham among familiar coaching faces to join Taylor Jenkins\u2019 Bucks staff: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Darvin Ham, Patrick St. Andrews and Joe Boylan are all expected to join recently hired Milwaukee Bucks head coach Taylor Jenkins\u2019 staff for the 2026-27 season, league sources tell The Athletic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ham is a former NBA head coach who compiled a 90-74 record in two seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He helped lead the Lakers to the Western Conference finals in 2023, his first season as head coach. Earlier this spring, Ham interviewed for the opening in New Orleans before the Pelicans opted to hire Jamahl Mosley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Before taking the job with the Lakers, Ham was the lead assistant on Mike Budenholzer\u2019s staff in Milwaukee for four seasons from 2018 to 2022. Before that, he was an assistant coach on Budenholzer\u2019s staff with the Atlanta Hawks, where he first got to know Jenkins. Ham and Jenkins worked together for five seasons in Atlanta before making the move to Milwaukee with Budenholzer for the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n

After Budenholzer\u2019s first season in Milwaukee, Jenkins was hired as head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies in 2019, while Ham stayed in Milwaukee for three more seasons until the Lakers hired him.<\/p>\n

St. Andrews, an NBA assistant coach for nine seasons, will be reunited with Jenkins in Milwaukee after working together multiple times throughout their coaching careers. Hoopshype was first to report.<\/p>\n

Jenkins and St. Andrews first worked together on Budenholzer\u2019s staff in Atlanta. After four years with the Hawks, both Jenkins and St. Andrews were a part of Budenholzer\u2019s staff in Milwaukee. Jenkins left for Memphis after his one season in Milwaukee, but St. Andrews stayed with the Bucks through the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n

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In 2023, before the start of his fifth season in Memphis, Jenkins brought in St. Andrews to work as one of his top assistants. After Jenkins was dismissed at the end of the 2024-25 season, St. Andrews moved to Portland, where he has been an assistant coach for the Trail Blazers\u2019 interim head coach Tiago Splitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re definitely brothers to me, for sure,\u201d Jenkins said during his introductory news conference earlier this month of Milwaukee\u2019s 2018-19 coaching staff. \u201cThe staff that was here when I was here in Milwaukee, I remain unbelievably close friends and brothers with, supporting each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no surprise to see two of those guys on the Bucks\u2019 coaching staff now that Jenkins has taken the reins as head coach.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019ve made a tremendous impact on me, both personally and professionally, basketball-wise,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cThe intimate nature of our job, we\u2019re around each other all the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re having great debates in coaches\u2019 meetings, in the locker room, on the plane rides. You\u2019re doing things out in your communities, road cities, wherever it is. You\u2019re sharing a lot of time together, and how we pour into each other, those connections were immediate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Along with Ham and St. Andrews, Jenkins is adding another familiar face from his time in Memphis. Boylan joined Jenkins\u2019 coaching staff before the 2024-25 season, Jenkins\u2019 final season with the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n

Prior to Memphis, Boylan served as an assistant coach for Chris Finch with the Minnesota Timberwolves for three seasons. Before that, he worked in player development for the Pelicans, Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics for more than a decade, starting with the Maine Red Claws (now the Maine Celtics) of the G League in 2009.<\/p>\n

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Darvin Ham, Patrick St. Andrews and Joe Boylan are all expected to join recently hired Milwaukee Bucks head coach Taylor Jenkins\u2019 staff for the 2026-27 season, league sources tell The Athletic. Ham is a former NBA head coach who compiled a 90-74 record in two seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He helped lead the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1951494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}