Boston’s affiliate head coach Sam Cassell is linked with the top teaching job at Florida State College in keeping with Heavy Sports activities’ Steve Bulpett.
Final week FSU’s basketball coach Leonard Hamilton introduced he’s resigning as head coach on the finish of the season. Hamilton is the all-time winningest coach at Florida State after teaching for 23 seasons.
Now, the Seminoles will search for a successor and Boston’s Sam Cassell is a reputation being talked about. Cassell is a former Seminole taking part in his junior and senior seasons in Tallahassee.
Within the report, Bulpett talked about that Cassell acknowledged three issues relating to the hypothesis:
He’s extraordinarily comfy in his place with the Celtics.
He’ll, after all, need to hearken to NBA and school gives that come his method.
He has NOT heard something from Florida State relating to the job that can come open within the wake of Leonard Hamilton asserting final week he’ll step down on the finish of this yr.
Cassell has been a reputation that has been linked to numerous head teaching jobs within the NBA, however he has but to land the title of head coach. He’s interviewed with each Los Angeles groups prior to now. Cassell interviewed for the Lakers job earlier than they determined to rent JJ Redick.
Though he hasn’t been a head coach, he has been a trusted and extremely valued assistant coach over his profession. After taking part in 15 seasons within the league, Cassell has been an assistant coach with 4 completely different groups (Washington Wizards, LA Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, and the Boston Celtics). After his stint in Washington, Cassell joined Doc Rivers in LA and adopted him to Philadelphia when Doc was named the Sixers coach again in 2020.
Cassell has performed an enormous function on Joe Mazzulla’s workers. After Boston received the championship in 2024, the Milwaukee Bucks and Doc Rivers tried to poach Cassell from Boston which he declined.
The 3x NBA Champion (as a participant), advised Bulpett that he nonetheless needs to be a head coach, however mentioned, “it’s acquired to be the best job.”
“The geese acquired to line up in a row accurately for me to consider leaving to simply accept one other job. This place has been treating me too good for me to only depart. Joe Mazzulla’s been nice to me. Brad’s been nice to me.
“Doc needed me to come back to Milwaukee with him after we received the championship … Couldn’t do it. Couldn’t do it.
“I imply, all the pieces’s good over right here. We’re simply attempting to defend our title — get by way of this common season and blend all of it up once more.”
It’s arduous to consider going again to your alma mater at a big-time ACC college wouldn’t verify the field because the “proper job,” however as Cassell mentioned to Bulpett, he has but to be contacted by FSU’s athletic director.
The Celtics have a historical past of letting bench coaches depart for school applications. In 2023, Damon Stoudamire left to take Georgia Tech’s job. Earlier than Stoudamire, Kara Lawson was Brad Stevens’ assistant coach and he or she left in the summertime of 2020 to change into the top coach of Duke College.
