Mike D’Antoni Has Reportedly Landed A New Job

After spending the 2020-21 season working as an assistant for the Brooklyn Nets, former NBA head coach Mike D’Antoni has a new job.

According to ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski, D’Antoni is joining the New Orleans Pelicans. Per the report, he will work as a coaching consultant for first-year head coach Willie Green’s staff.

Last year D’Antoni was a top assistant on first-year head coach Steve Nash’s team. He helped navigate Nash to the Eastern Conference Semifinals, albeit with one of the league’s most stacked rosters.

Prior to joining Brooklyn, D’Antoni spent four previous years as head coach of the Houston Rockets. Though he couldn’t get the Rockets to the NBA Finals, he won 68-percent of his games and reached the Western Conference Semifinals four times, including the Western Conference Finals in 2018.

At 70 years of age, Mike D’Antoni has probably put being an NBA head coach again behind him. And that’s assuming he even wants to be a head coach.

D’Antoni has 16 years of NBA head coaching experience and decades more as an assistant across the NBA and around the world. He’s 718-555 as a head coach with 10 playoff appearances and a 54-56 postseason record.

While D’Antoni never took a team to the NBA Finals, let alone won a chip, he remains a respected coaching figure.

He’ll be invaluable to Willie Green as the Pelicans continue to build around Zion Williamson.

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