{"id":437701,"date":"2023-06-11T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437701"},"modified":"2023-06-11T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T21:01:19","slug":"boston-hiring-charles-lee-as-lead-assistant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-hiring-charles-lee-as-lead-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston hiring Charles Lee as lead assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a><\/a> are in the final steps of adding Charles Lee as their lead assistant manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston franchise had their eyes on Lee for a long period of time as they wanted him to be part of the coaching staff. After <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> have no longer vacated coaching positions, Charles is available as he was among the names for both jobs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some facts about new Celtics&#8217; assistant coach Charles Lee<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Played in Europe from 2006-2010<br \/>\n\u2022 Was an assistant for Bucknell from 2012-2014<br \/>\n\u2022 Has been an assistant in the NBA from 2014-2023<br \/>\n\u2022 Has a ring with the Bucks<br \/>\n\u2022 Is a defensive minded coach <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yYXDnJmoJD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yYXDnJmoJD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CelticsNation (temporary Nuggets fan) (@CookedByCeltics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CookedByCeltics\/status\/1667950072191938565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lee was an assistant manager in Milwaukee Bucks as he worked with manager Mike Budenholzer for the last 9 years as, 4 of these years they spent together in Milwaukee. He was a lead assistant coach last campaign after Darvin Ham became <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/a> head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Charles will work along with Sam Cassell, who was an assistant coach in the Philadelphia 76ers before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics are in the final steps of adding Charles Lee as their lead assistant manager. The Boston franchise had their eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437702,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18062,19820,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Celtics will have a new top assistant.","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\/437701"}],"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=437701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437701"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437701"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}