Jay Wright isn’t interested in coaching in the NBA after retiring from his post at Villanova.
Wright, who won two national championships, enjoyed assisting Gregg Popovich on the Team USA staff but never came close to leaving Villanova for NBA jobs, says ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link). Sources who have talked to Wright don’t believe the NBA holds appeal to him now or in future, Wojnarowski adds.
According to a school press release, Wright will take the post of Special Assistant to the President at the university. Fordham head coach Kyle Neptune, a former Wildcats assistant, will replace Wright, Jeff Goodman of Stadium tweets.
We have more from around the basketball world:
- Former UConn wing Tyrese Martin and Seton Hall wing Jared Rhoden were among the players who stood out at the Portsmouth Invitational, Jonathan Givony of ESPN reports. San Francisco guard Jamaree Bouyea and Texas A&M guard Quenton Jackson also turned some heads at the annual event.
- The NBA playoffs has thus far been a boon for some of the league’s young guards, John Hollinger of The Athletic writes. Tyrese Maxey, Jordan Poole, Jalen Brunson and Anthony Edwards have delivered big offensive games to lift their teams to victories.
- Now that all the tiebreakers have been decided, the NBA draft order is set up until next month’s lottery. The Athletic’s Zach Harper takes a closer look at all the lottery teams, their needs and what kind of players they might target.
The Jay Wright retirement seems weird.
Conspiracy theory: Health issues or interns
What a jerk.
No accusation, ijs, intution points to something else going on.
F in the chat. Jay will be missed.
Ant did not deliver and they lost game they were up by 20 twice. Kind of shows his value… But what happened?
I don’t see how it “shows his value” at all. He’s very young. The whole team screwed up down the stretch. What GM would be dumb enough to judge a 20-year-old expected to get his team over the hump in a difficult matchup?
Is he perfect? No. But who thought he was? Some of you have irrational expectations imo. And this doesn’t consider the fact that he was injured in this game and never quite the same afterwards.
Well Hollinger thought so, made a list of risers with him on it.
The injury was unclear. Ant just looked out of it. On a day when the Wolves had the Griz solved, Edwards should be happy to deliver finishing touches. Towns seemed happy but did little by the numbers.
I am looking forward to reading accounts or explanations. Dillon Brooks brought Memphis back the first time but I missed the second time.
The Wolves are a curious outfit.
Weird to see Jay leave, but if you’re done you’re done. He doesn’t need to prove anything else. Hopefully it was his decision and not an outside force or health. Been a great coach, great program. Not a great day for Villanova basketball, but the haters are probably rejoicing like they won the Tourney (Temple, LaSalle, St Joes, and Penn).