SALT LAKE CITY — The wide-reaching search has come to a close.
Boston assistant Will Hardy has agreed to a five-year deal to be the Utah Jazz’s next head coach, KSL.com has confirmed. ESPN and The Athletic were the first to report the hire.
With the move, the Jazz are placing a long-term bet on a young and still mostly unproven coach. At 34, Hardy will be the youngest coach in the NBA and among the youngest coaches ever (aside from the player-coaches the league experimented with in the 1950s and ’60s). Hardy is even younger than two players on the current Jazz roster: Rudy Gay and Mike Conley.
The Jazz interviewed as many as 15 coaches, casting a wide net that featured former NBA coaches, longtime assistants and some up-and-comers in the industry. In the end, Hardy was selected from a group of finalists, according to ESPN, which included fellow Celtics assistant Joe Mazzulla, Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin and Jazz assistant Alex Jensen.
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Written by RYAN MILLER, KSL.com.
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