{"id":436558,"date":"2023-05-24T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436558"},"modified":"2023-05-24T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:04:15","slug":"phoenix-to-interview-nurse-rivers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/phoenix-to-interview-nurse-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix to interview Nurse, Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns have 4 names in mind for the available manager position at the franchise as part of the selected ones: Nick Nurse (champion with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>) and Doc Rivers (champion with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: The Phoenix Suns have narrowed their head coaching search to five finalists: Nick Nurse, Frank Vogel, Doc Rivers, Kings assistant Jordi Fernandez and Suns assistant Kevin Young.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1661198244020469761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both head coaches will meet with the Sun&#8217;s leadership this week for final Interviews, as the other 2 options are associate head coaches Kevin Young and Jordi Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Nick is a favorite for the Phoenix job, and Milwaukee Bucks also had him in mind. Bucks had the former Raptors manager among the 3 finalists for the head coach position.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix is looking to replace Monty Williams, who they dismissed after his franchise was eliminated in the West Conference \u00bd finals by Denver Nuggets. Suns had 2 of the best players in the league &#8211; Devin Booker and Kevin Durant and want to win the title with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns have 4 names in mind for the available manager position at the franchise as part of the selected ones: Nick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435590,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Suns are looking for a head coach.","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\/436558"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436558"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436558"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}