{"id":437648,"date":"2023-06-10T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437648"},"modified":"2023-06-10T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T21:52:02","slug":"raptors-to-hire-memphis-assistant-rajakovic-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raptors-to-hire-memphis-assistant-rajakovic-as-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors to hire Memphis assistant Rajakovic as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> will appoint Memphis Grizzlies assistant Darko Rajakovic as the team&#8217;s new manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: The Raptors are finalizing a deal to hire Grizzlies assistant Darko Rajakovic as the franchise\u2019s next head coach, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oiZxyHslrT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oiZxyHslrT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1667627392209244162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian franchise offered the position to Darko today, and they are in the final steps of signing an official deal.<\/p>\n<p>After a long search, president Masai Ujiri and GM Bobby Webster finally ended up with a name that will have to take charge after Nick Nurse&#8217;s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>With the appointment of Rajakovic, all NBA teams&#8217; head coach positions are occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Darko was Taylor Jenkins&#8217; top assistant at Memphis, but now he would have to make all the major decisions in his debut as head coach in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Raptors will appoint Memphis Grizzlies assistant Darko Rajakovic as the team&#8217;s new manager. Breaking: The Raptors are finalizing a deal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437649,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16884,17837,17079],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19792,17838,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Canadian basketball team will have a new 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\/437648"}],"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=437648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437648"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437648"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}