Being the lead assistant to Steve Kerr has worked out pretty well for guys in the past. Mike Brown held that job for years and, last season, coached the Knicks to a championship. Kenny Atkinson had that job and left it to take over a Cleveland team Brown’s New York squad had to beat in the Eastern Conference Finals last May.
Now Frank Vogel will have that job, reports Shams Charania of ESPN.
Vogel won a championship as the coach of the 2020 Los Angeles Lakers in the bubble, and before that had been the head coach who took Indiana to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2013 and 2014. For the past couple of years, he had been an assistant coach on Jason Kidd’s staff in Dallas (Kidd was let go recently and replaced by Dusty May).
Vogel is known as a defensive specialist and likely will take over control of Golden State on that end of the court.
Kerr’s staff has seen turnover this offseason with both lead assistant Terry Stotts as well as Jerry Stackhouse leaving, and that on top of longtime assistant Chris DeMarco bolting in the middle of last season to become head coach of the New York Liberty.
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