Bobcats Hire St. John’s Assistant Mike Dunlap, According To Reports

The Charlotte Bobcats selected a pretty solid coach, according to nearly all accounts, when they decided Monday night to tab St. John’s Red Storm assistant Mike Dunlap as the next man to run their team. The problem in Charlotte wasn’t the final decision, however, but the process that ended with Dunlap receiving the honor of coaching the NBA’s worst team next season.

Bobcats owner Michael Jordan and his crew ended up interviewing 10 coaches from various areas of the coaching ladder to replace Paul Silas and, for the most part, Charlotte seemed to be looking in the right spots. The men they interviewed weren’t the name-brand coaches recycled time and time again, but younger guys that have yet to be given an opportunity to show what they’re able to do on the big stage.

The Charlotte Observer’s Rick Bonnell was the first to report the hire. ESPN’s Chris Broussard also confirmed the news. From Bonnell:

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Sam Amick at SI.com reports that Sloan, who had already gone through a first interview with team owner Michael Jordan present, withdrew his name from consideration for undisclosed reasons.

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Jordan and the Bobcats have a difficult decision upcoming as their three finalists are all pretty different from one another. That said, it’s difficult to see how they can go wrong at this stage of the process with these three candidates.

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It was pretty great of MJ to personally reach out to Ewing, but was it as great as Woj’s lede? Apart from that, it’s interesting that Ewing is the only candidate that has been shut down considering the Bobcats have already interviewed quite a few coaches.

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It seems that Sloan wants to coach in the NBA this year, regardless of location. Considering his history, there’s almost definitely going to be a team interested in his services.

The team likely won’t be able to attract the major names, considering it is coming off the worst season in the history of the National Basketball Association, but Charlotte is bringing in some solid candidates that have proven themselves capable in previous stops.

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It’ll be interesting to see who Jordan is able to lure to Charlotte. Sloan wasn’t anyone’s first guess when it came to a possible replacement for Silas, but he’d be an interesting successor after sitting out this past season following a long career as the head coach of the Jazz.

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