{"id":416700,"date":"2023-02-21T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416700"},"modified":"2023-02-22T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:48:08","slug":"hawks-dismiss-head-coach-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hawks-dismiss-head-coach-mcmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks dismiss head coach McMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Hawks sacked head coach Nate McMillan, who went a combined 99-80 across three seasons at the club, the NBA team announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Prunty has been named interim head coach. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Scq6G3Rg5W\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Scq6G3Rg5W<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TlJ0wr0yxF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TlJ0wr0yxF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/1628177034093502465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Joe Prunty will replace McMillan on an interim basis as the club will commence a search for a new full-time head coach immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank Nate for his leadership and professionalism during his time with the Hawks,&#8221; general manager Landry Fields said in a statement. &#8220;He is truly a class act, and we appreciate the graciousness and work ethic he brought with him every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Decisions like these, especially in-season, are always extremely difficult, but we believe it&#8217;s in the best interest of our team to move forward with another voice leading the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder is expected to be among the top candidates in Atlanta&#8217;s search and Milwaukee Bucks assistant Charles Lee is reportedly expected to be another candidate, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State Warriors assistant and former Brooklyn Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson could also be options.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old McMillan replaced former Hawks head coach Lloyd Pierce in March 2021 and took the club to the Eastern Conference finals in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>However, he failed to match that progress in 2021-22; Atlanta went 43-39 and lasted just five games against the Miami Heat in the opening round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Hawks sacked head coach Nate McMillan, who went a combined 99-80 across three seasons at the club, the NBA team announced. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416701,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Assistant coach Joe Prunty will replace him on an interim basis","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416700"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416700"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}