{"id":1962435,"date":"2026-05-29T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1962435"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:42:16","slug":"magic-nearing-agreement-to-hire-sean-sweeney-as-next-head-coach-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1962435","title":{"rendered":"Magic nearing agreement to hire Sean Sweeney as next head coach: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The Orlando Magic are working to complete a contract to hire Sean Sweeney as their next head coach, a league source told <em>The Athletic<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney, 41, spent last season as the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 associate head coach, helping lead them to the NBA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/teams\/advanced?sort=DEF_RATING&amp;dir=-1&amp;SeasonType=Regular+Season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">third-ranked defense<\/a>. Sweeney will remain with the Spurs through the rest of their playoff run, per the league source.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before he joined the Spurs, Sweeney worked as an assistant coach for four seasons with the Dallas Mavericks (2021-25), three seasons with the Detroit Pistons (2018-21) and four seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks (2014-18).<\/p>\n<div id=\"top-league-content-root\"><\/div>\n<p>    {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>In Milwaukee, Sweeney\u2019s tenure as an assistant coach overlapped for three seasons with John Hammond\u2019s tenure as general manager. Hammond, who went on to become the Magic\u2019s general manager, now works as a senior advisor to Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney will inherit a defensive-oriented team that was coached for the last five seasons by Jamahl Mosley, who guided the Magic to three consecutive playoff appearances. However, they were unable to advance beyond the first round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7142634\/2026\/05\/04\/jamahl-mosley-fired-magic-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mosley was fired<\/a> after the Magic lost their first-round playoff series this spring to the Pistons despite taking a 3-1 series lead and holding a 24-point lead in Game 6 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney\u2019s task will be to maintain or strengthen the Magic\u2019s defense while improving an offense that often struggled in the half court.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Dan Woike contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Magic are working to complete a contract to hire Sean Sweeney as their next head coach, a league source told The Athletic on Friday. Sweeney, 41, spent last season as the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 associate head coach, helping lead them to the NBA\u2019s third-ranked defense. Sweeney will remain with the Spurs through the [&hellip;]<\/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-1962435","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\/1962435","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=1962435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}