Jeff Weltman hints at what Magic coaching search might look like
If Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman has an ideal candidate in mind to replace Jamahl Mosley as Orlando ‘s next head coach, he certainly didn’t show his cards Monday. Mosley was fired Monday morning after the Magic’s season ended Sunday at Detroit in Game 7 of their first-round NBA playoff series. Orlando led the series 3-1 before it ultimately lost three consecutive games to the top-seeded Pistons , who advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Hours after announcing his decision to dismiss Mosley following a five-year stint that included three straight first-round playoff exits amid ever-increasing expectations, Weltman answered questions about what he’s looking for as he leads the search for the team’s next coach. “I don’t think we look for a particular trait or a quality,” the Magic executive said inside the AdventHealth Training Center on Monday. “Coaches come in a lot of different shapes and sizes.
Someone that kind of looks at our team in the way that we feel can help move us forward. Obviously someone who understands where we are on our timeline, that we’ve kind of tried to get past the growth stages of the rebuild. … I don’t have a box to say that we want the next coach to come out of this sort of box.
” Weltman can’t say precisely what the search will look like. It’s something more akin to a feeling and how it fits into his process, he said. “I’m not really sure,” he added.
“That’s more like, we want to talk, have really in-depth conversations with people about how they view our team, maybe see some things that we haven’t seen and kind of go from there. ” Weltman, who’s been known to keep information close to the vest throughout his nine years in Orlando, wouldn’t even go so far as to say whether or not prior experience as an NBA head coach is something he expects in a potential candidate. Mosley was a longtime assistant coach before the Magic hired him as a first-time head coach in July 2021.
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