{"id":18483,"date":"2019-04-11T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:28:37","slug":"firings-watch-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18483","title":{"rendered":"Firings watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/article229124494.html\">Dave Joerger out as head coach of the Sacramento Kings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three seasons, 98-148, and the team went 39-43 this season, which was their best record since 2005. Also out: assistant GM Brandon Williams and PR director Chris Clark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/26499416\/grizzlies-fire-bickerstaff-major-shake-up\">Memphis fired head coach J.B. Bickerstaff and &#8220;reassigned&#8221; GM Chris Wallace.<\/a> Apologies for linking ESPN, but I can&#8217;t get the Commercial-Appeal website to load on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>(Edited to add 4\/12: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2019\/04\/11\/memphis-grizzlies-fire-j-b-bickerstaff-demote-gm-chris-wallace\/3439450002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coverage from the <strong>Commercial-Appeal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/2019\/04\/cleveland-cavaliers-larry-drew-mutually-agree-to-part-ways.html\">Not exactly a firing, but Larry Drew is not coming back as head coach in Cleveland.<\/a> Drew took over after head coach Tyronn Lue was fired early this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Joerger out as head coach of the Sacramento Kings. Three seasons, 98-148, and the team went 39-43 this season, which was their best record since 2005. Also out: assistant GM Brandon Williams and PR director Chris Clark. Memphis fired head coach J.B. Bickerstaff and &#8220;reassigned&#8221; GM Chris Wallace. Apologies for linking ESPN, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firings","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18490,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions\/18490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}