The Milwaukee Bucks famously fired former head coach Mike Budenholzer following the 2022-23 NBA season. Even though he had led Milwaukee to its first NBA Championship in 50 seasons during the 2020-21 season, he had failed to lead the Bucks anywhere close to a position where they could win another one.
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns’ coaching search is reportedly nearing its final stages after an extensive process. After firing Mike Budenholzer on April
The Phoenix Suns have plenty of questions left to answer this offseason following a 36-46 finish to the 2024-25 season last month and missing the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
How many of the players to score the most points in one game for each NBA team in the 2024-25 NBA season can you name in five minutes?
After firing head coach Mike Budenholzer and replacing general manager James Jones, the Phoenix Suns look towards the summer for some serious answers in regards to what the organization will look like moving forward.
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The Phoenix Suns are looking at quite a busy offseason ahead of them. The first move was made when they fired head coach Mike Budenholzer. The position remains open, for now.
Over three weeks since firing Mike Budenholzer, the Phoenix Suns have yet to make a decision on who will be the team's next head coach. Phoenix did make a big first step last week after promoting Brian Gregory to general manager.
A new dawn has arrived for the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix is three weeks removed from firing first-year head coach Mike Budenholzer and will look to find a replacement that can last more than one season after Frank Vogel suffered the same fate in 2023-24.
2:49pm: In addition to officially promoting Gregory and moving Jones to an advisory role, the Suns have also named Oronde Taliaferro as assistant GM and CIO Paul Rivers will now have basketball operations responsibilities, the team announced in a press release (Twitter link via Gerald Bourguet of PHNX Sports).
The Phoenix Suns are once again under pressure to hire the next coach of the franchise. Phoenix is searching for its fourth coach in as many seasons after the firing of Mike Budenholzer last Monday.
Mike Budenholzer continues to catch strays as the offseason looms. The Phoenix Suns fired Budenholzer after one season, and it was a disaster. The 36-46 record was less than appetizing.
The Phoenix Suns, it would seem, are on the verge of rebuilding. Kevin Durant is all but guranteed to be traded, Bradley Beal could be the most expensive buy out candidtae in NBA histroy, and even franchise cornerstone Devin Booker has been inclued in trade rumors.
The Suns have not been shy about using former head coach Mike Budenholzer as their scapegoat.
After failing to make the postseason, the Phoenix Suns decided to part ways with head coach Mike Budenholzer. As developments of what led to his departure start to trickle out, Jrue Holiday finds himself having to weigh in on the situation.
The Phoenix Suns fired head coach Mike Budenholzer on Monday, less than 24 hours after the team with the NBA's highest payroll finished with a 36-46 mark.
The Phoenix Suns have announced that Mike Budenholzer will be fired as Suns head coach effective immediately. In what was a disaster of a season for the Suns, the front office has decided that change was inevitable.
The Suns were arguably the most disappointing team in the NBA this season.
According to NBA insider Tim MacMahon of ESPN, the Phoenix Suns are expected to fire Mike Budenholzer. The Suns missed the playoffs this season. They didn’t even qualify for the play-in tournament. Budenholzer is in his first season with the Suns.
The Phoenix Suns’ season came to a disappointing end Wednesday night, and with it, questions about the franchise’s direction have intensified. They will not be in the NBA playoffs.
When Mike Budenholzer was hired as head coach of the Phoenix Suns, it was seen as a promising step for a team eager to contend in the Western Conference.
Kevin Durant has been openly frustrated with Phoenix Suns head coach Mike Budenholzer at times this season, and a new report shed light on one of the reasons for that.
After going on a four-game winning streak that had it tied for ninth in the Western Conference, the Phoenix Suns have lost back-to-back games and fallen out of the Play-In.
Mike Budenholzer guided the Milwaukee Bucks to the 2021 NBA title and was fired two years later after a 58-win season. Now in his first season with the Suns, Budenholzer coaches against his former team for the first time since the dismissal when Milwaukee visits Phoenix on Monday night.
PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns coach Mike Budenholzer isn’t one to look beyond what’s in front of him; and after what was their best win of the season, a 123-112
There may be no job in sports more tenuous than coaching the Suns. Unless it's coaching Kevin Durant.
The Suns entered Tuesday's game against the Clippers with a 3-10 record since Feb. 1, the second-worst in the league during that timeframe. The frustration from all that losing seemed to boil over on Tuesday, with Kevin Durant and head coach Mike Budenholzer involved in an awkward exchange during a timeout.
The Phoenix Suns are 28-32 right now, but Devin Booker does not seem to think that his relationship with the head coach is the problem.
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