{"id":482898,"date":"2024-05-09T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T23:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482898"},"modified":"2024-05-09T19:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T23:28:58","slug":"suns-dismiss-manager-vogel-after-being-swept-in-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/suns-dismiss-manager-vogel-after-being-swept-in-1st-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns dismiss manager Vogel after being swept in 1st round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns have dismissed boss Frank Vogel, 11 days after the franchise was swept out of the playoffs\u2019 1<sup>st<\/sup> round by the Minnesota Timberwolves, the organization shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ESPN Sources: The Phoenix Suns dismissed coach Frank Vogel. The Suns \u2014 who won 49 regular-season games with league\u2019s third-highest payroll and tax \u2014 were swept in opening-round series to Timberwolves. Mike Budenholzer will be prominent part of search. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SDTRkXxkrG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SDTRkXxkrG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1788666107454525444?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>Ex-Bucks manager Mike Budenholzer is expected to be the favorite to replace Frank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we revealed with the media at the beginning of the month, organization leadership, including myself, Josh Bartelstein, and ownership, would be looking across our team to determine what changes must be made,&#8221; Phoenix GM James Jones shared.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns general manager added that they decided that a new manager needed to lead the team.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix underperformed in Frank\u2019s lone campaign as head coach, especially the big expectations with Devin Booker, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> and Bradley Beal on his roster. Durant and Beal came to the team after owner Mat Ishbia took over the franchise over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Vogel inked a 5-year, 31-million-dollar contract in the past summer, will leave the team with a 49-33 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns have dismissed boss Frank Vogel, 11 days after the franchise was swept out of the playoffs\u2019 1st round by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482899,"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":[17557,1067,12134],"acf":{"announce":"Phoenix fired the head coach, Frank, after the disappointing postseason.","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\/482898"}],"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=482898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482900,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482898\/revisions\/482900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482898"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482898"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}