{"id":483214,"date":"2024-05-18T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483214"},"modified":"2024-05-17T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T02:09:59","slug":"budenholzer-i-would-go-anywhere-to-coach-this-phoenix-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/budenholzer-i-would-go-anywhere-to-coach-this-phoenix-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Budenholzer: \u2018I would go anywhere to coach this Phoenix team\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Budenholzer shared a little teary-eyed talking about his past in Arizona, describing an idyllic childhood in the small town of Holbrook, about 3 hours from Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s tears disappeared quickly when he began talking about the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still can\u2019t believe it, like mind-blowing, to know that I&#8217;m going to be the manager of the Phoenix Suns,&#8221; the head coach shared with the media today during his presentation.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Frank Vogel, who was dismissed over a week ago after 1 disastrous campaign. The 2-time NBA Coach of the Year&#8217;s main task will be to achieve more with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a>, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal as the organization dreams about a title with the trio.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix superstar disappointed in the past campaign under Vogel, finishing with a 49-33 record before getting swept by the Timberwolves in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Budenholzer added that he can\u2019t wait to start working with these great players, and he understands that everyone expects big things with such a roster in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;You got to coach them hard. You got to demand of them. You got to have high expectations for them. And usually they thrive.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Watch Head Coach Mike Budenholzer&#39;s Introductory Press Conference: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXy9FvhUYs\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/yXy9FvhUYs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzijpA1OF3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FzijpA1OF3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1791583769805406498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Budenholzer shared a little teary-eyed talking about his past in Arizona, describing an idyllic childhood in the small town of Holbrook, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19152,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[19153,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Mike is very happy that he will coach this Suns team.","video":["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\/483214"}],"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=483214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483216,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483214\/revisions\/483216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483214"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483214"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}