{"id":438599,"date":"2023-06-26T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438599"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:05:45","slug":"toronto-raptors-hire-simovic-as-an-assistant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toronto-raptors-hire-simovic-as-an-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors hire Simovic as an assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> decided to add the University of California, LA assistant basketball coach Ivo Simovic to their coaching staff as he will also continue to work as an assistant in Toronto.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: UCLA basketball assistant Ivo Simovic is finalizing a deal to become a Toronto Raptors assistant coach. He joins the staff of fellow Serbian Darko Rajakovic, who he has worked with previously in Serbia and Spain. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTHL6KTXJB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rTHL6KTXJB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/1673337808730071044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He joins his Serbian compatriot Darko Rajakovic, the franchise&#8217;s head coach, as the pair already worked together in their native country and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Simovic entered the Bruins program in the summer of 2022 after being an assistant coach at Loyola University Maryland for 4 years between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ivo was part of the UCLA 31-6 overall record in the past season, as they clinched their 1<sup>st<\/sup> Pac-12 Conference regular-season title for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since 2013 and progressed to the NCAA Tournament&#8217;s Sweet 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Raptors decided to add the University of California, LA assistant basketball coach Ivo Simovic to their coaching staff as he will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438600,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17079],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20131,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He will be an assistant coach of the Canadian NBA team.","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\/438599"}],"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=438599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438599"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438599"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}