{"id":492421,"date":"2025-04-14T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492421"},"modified":"2025-04-14T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:11:25","slug":"suns-dismiss-head-coach-mike-budenholzer-after-1-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/suns-dismiss-head-coach-mike-budenholzer-after-1-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns dismiss head coach Mike Budenholzer after 1 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the National Basketball League postseason and play-in tournament with the largest payroll in NBA history, the Phoenix Suns have dismissed head coach Mike Budenholzer, the franchise shared today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning championships remains our goal, and we didn\u2019t deliver in the current campaign. Our supporters deserve better. Change must be made,\u201d the organization wrote.<\/p>\n<p>For the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> straight campaign, Phoenix owner Mat Ishbia, CEO Josh Bartelstein, and GM James Jones are changing bosses. The Suns ended the season 36-46.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Suns will be looking for their fourth coach in four seasons:<\/p>\n<p>\u25fd\ufe0f 2022-23 \u2014 Monty Williams<br \/>\u25fd\ufe0f 2023-24 \u2014 Frank Vogel<br \/>\u25fd\ufe0f 2024-25 \u2014 Mike Budenholzer<br \/>\u25fd\ufe0f 2025-26 \u2014 ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ii0SGSDVBQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ii0SGSDVBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1911815399559381050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mike had problems connecting with the locker room during the campaign, with Suns officials concluding that the roster failed to respond to Budenholzer. The 2021 NBA championship coach&#8217;s inability to coexist with his basketballers centered around the organization\u2019s star Devin Booker.<\/p>\n<p>Mike accepted Phoenix\u2019s head coaching position on a 5-year, 50 million dollar deal in the past offseason, appointed for his championship experience.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix became the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> organization in league history to start 8-1 or better and miss the postseason, as the other two cases were Detroit Pistons in 1970-71 and Milwaukee Bucks in 2001-02.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the National Basketball League postseason and play-in tournament with the largest payroll in NBA history, the Phoenix Suns have dismissed head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492422,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19152,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19153,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Phoenix fired the manager after missing the playoffs.","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\/492421"}],"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=492421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492424,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492421\/revisions\/492424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492421"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492421"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}