{"id":482889,"date":"2024-05-09T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482889"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:42:05","slug":"charles-lee-inks-a-4-year-contract-as-hornets-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/charles-lee-inks-a-4-year-contract-as-hornets-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lee inks a 4-year contract as Hornets coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a> lead assistant manager Charles Lee has agreed on a 4-campaign deal to become the boss of the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: The Charlotte Hornets have hired Boston Celtics assistant coach Charles Lee to become their new head coach, the team announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ggFaiv8P3X\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ggFaiv8P3X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1788549145902342515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Charles (39) had risen to become 1 of the NBA\u2019s most accomplished assistant coaches and now will have the opportunity to lead a team in the league and try to successfully rebuild with Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>New chief of basketball operations Jeff Peterson in Hornets played together with Lee in Hawks and now the 2 will work together again.<\/p>\n<p>Charles will finish Boston\u2019s postseason run before moving over to join Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Before landing the job with the Celtics under Joe Mazzulla in the past summer, Charles spent 5 seasons under 2-time NBA Coach of the Year Mike Budenholzer with Milwaukee and was part of the Bucks\u2019 2021 NBA championship run.<\/p>\n<p>Charles will take the place of Steve Clifford, who stepped down at the end of the campaign but will stay in Hornets in a front office position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics lead assistant manager Charles Lee has agreed on a 4-campaign deal to become the boss of the Charlotte Hornets. Breaking: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482890,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17122,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19820,17888,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Charles agreed on a 4-season deal with Charlotte to lead the 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\/482889"}],"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=482889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482891,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482889\/revisions\/482891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482889"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482889"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}