Nate McMillan has been fired as coach of the Atlanta Hawks, the NBA franchise, currently 8th in the Eastern Conference, announced on Tuesday. Hawks general manager Landry Fields said assistant coach Joe Prunty will be the interim coach. “Decisions like these, especially mid-season, are always extremely difficult, but we believe it’s in our team’s best interest to move forward with another voice at the helm. crew“, Fields said.
McMillan ends with a record of 99 wins and 80 losses as Hawks coach, having started as interim coach mid-season in March 2021 and guiding Atlanta to the Eastern Conference Finals, losing to the future Milwaukee champ. Atlanta had then passed the second round of the NBA playoffs for only the second time in 54 years, by eliminating New York and Philadelphia.
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McMillan, who played 12 seasons in the league as a point guard or guard for the Seattle SuperSonics, was in his 19th season as head coach in the NBA following stints in Seattle, Portland, Indiana and Atlanta since 2001. He has also served as an assistant coach for the gold medal-winning American teams at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Prunty, 54, joined the Hawks as an assistant coach in July 2021. He has served in this role in the NBA since 1996, with the exception of two stints as interim head coach in Milwaukee. He won three titles as an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs between 1999 and 2005.
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