Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault has been named to information one in all 4 groups within the Feb. 16 All-Star Sport in San Francisco.
Daigneault earned his first All-Star Sport head teaching appointment after the Thunder posted the perfect report within the Western Convention within the Feb. 2 video games. They improved to 35-7 with a 127-101 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday.
In 5 seasons as Thunder head coach, Daigneault has a 177-182 report, whereas guiding his workforce to the playoffs final season. He’s the primary Oklahoma Metropolis head coach to earn the respect since Scott Brooks throughout the 2013-14 season.
The nod to Daigneault additionally ensures {that a} Thunder assistant coach would be the head coach of one other of the NBA’s 4 all-star groups. The pinnacle coach and an assistant from the Japanese Convention workforce with the perfect report by February 2 will coach the opposite two groups.
The NBA adopted a brand new one-night All-Star Sport event this season with three groups made up of eight All-Stars drafted by former NBA gamers Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal of “Contained in the NBA” .
The winner of the Rising Stars problem competitors between first and second 12 months gamers would be the fourth workforce within the All-Star Sport event.
Final 12 months’s All-Star Sport was broadly ridiculed regardless of returning to the standard East-West matchup primarily based on a “captain’s draft”, with the fan vote leaders from every convention deciding on two groups.
Event matches will likely be determined by the primary workforce to succeed in 40 factors.
–Area degree media
