The G-League Austin Spurs (who will endlessly be the D-League Austin Toros in my curmudgeon thoughts) introduced Chris Kent as their new head coach. He’s the twelfth head coach in franchise historical past.
Kent has intensive expertise at a number of ranges of the game. A standout participant for Angola Excessive Faculty, he graduated in 2009 earlier than and performed faculty ball for 2 seasons apiece at Huntington College and Trine College. He graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science. His self-designed diploma in Normal Research targeted on Sport and Health Administration.
From 2013-2015 he served as an intern to the G-League Fort Wayne Mad Ants.
He served as a graduate assistant at South Florida from 2015 to 2017 whereas acquiring his Masters diploma in Sports activities Administration. Kent was then named director of participant growth at South Florida for the 2017-18 season.
In 2018, he joined the Chicago Bulls as a training intern earlier than being promoted to video coordinator in 2019. Kent maintained the place for 3 seasons earlier than transferring over to the employees of their G-League affiliate Windy Metropolis Bulls as an assistant coach in 2022.
The next 12 months he joined the teaching employees for the Rip Metropolis Remix from 2023-25.
Final season, Kent returned to South Florida as an assistant coach.
He now joins a distinguished checklist of head coaches to serve in Austin. He’s changing Jacob Probability after Probability was appointed head coach of Melbourne United.
Of the previous Austin Spurs head coaches Scott King (who was named the 2024-2025 G-League Coach of the 12 months) and Matt Nielsen are presently assistants with San Antonio Spurs below Mitch Johnson, himself a former Austin Spurs assistant.
Since 2007, the Spurs have had the affiliate growth crew in Austin. The place gives some status as many former coaches have transitioned into the NBA. Most notably, Quin Snyder (2007-2010) who’s the present head coach of the Atlanta Hawks. He was the pinnacle coach for the Utah Jazz from 2014-2022.
Brad Jones (2010-2012), who coached the Toros to a D-League Championship in 2012 is presently an assistant with the Bucks. Taylor Jenkins (2012-2013) was not too long ago named the pinnacle coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. He beforehand spent seven seasons as the pinnacle coach of the Memphis Grizzlies. And Blake Ahearn (2017-2020), head coach of the Austin Spurs 2018 title, serves as an assistant with the Memphis Grizzlies.
The G-Lague Spurs have been utilized effectively over time to help the expansion of younger gamers. Cory Joseph, Derrick White, Dejounte Murray, Tre Jones, and Keldon Johnson have all credited Austin as a key issue of their evolution.
Kent could have the chance to work with the fledgling Spurs 2026 draft picks Jayden Quaintance, Tarris Reed, Jr., Ja’Kobi Gillespie and Maliq Brown as they mature and anticipate minutes in San Antonio.
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