Magic Rumors: Becky Hammon to Interview for Orlando’s Head Coaching Vacancy

One week after parting suggestions with Steve Clifford, the Orlando Magic are filling out their listing of doable head coaching candidates. 

Per Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium, San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon can have an interview with the Magic. 

Hammon changed into among the many candidates beneath consideration by the Indiana Pacers to be named their head coach sooner than they went with Toronto Raptors assistant Nate Bjorkgren final September. 

The Magic started a corpulent-scale rebuild in all places in the 2020-21 season by procuring and selling Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon and Evan Fournier in March. 

When Orlando announced June 5 a mutual parting of suggestions with Clifford, team president Jeff Weltman advised newshounds the dedication came because of a distinction in philosophy. 

“Obviously, we have repositioned our team,” Weltman acknowledged. And so, there has to be alignment. There has to be alignment in every little thing you enact on this league. And if there is just not any longer alignment, it’ll undermine every little thing.”

Clifford went 96-131 in three seasons as Orlando’s head coach. He led the franchise to the postseason in every of his first two years, losing in the first spherical each time. 

Hammon has been an assistant on Gregg Popovich’s group with the Spurs since 2014. She made historic past on Dec. 30 against the Los Angeles Lakers because the first lady to reduction as an acting head coach for an NBA team after Popovich changed into ejected in the second quarter.