Pelicans Hiring God Shammgod As Assistant Coach

The Pelicans are hiring veteran coach God Shammgod to be an assistant under new head coach Jamahl Mosley, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link).

A former guard who played professionally in the NBA and several other leagues around the world from 1997-2009, Shammgod got into coaching after retiring as a player and spent nearly a decade as a player development assistant in Dallas from 2016-25.

Shammgod worked alongside Mosley, a former Mavs assistant, until 2021 and then joined him in Orlando for the 2025/26 season. Now he’ll be leaving the Magic to rejoin Mosley’s in New Orleans as a front-of-the-bench assistant, per Scotto.

League sources tell Scotto that Mosley is expected to carry over a handful of assistants who were already working for the Pelicans, including Greg Monroe, Jodie Meeks, Mike Hopkins, and Will Bynum. However, he’ll also be making some of his own additions to the staff besides Shammgod.

Two of those potential newcomers are Dale Osbourne and Bret Brielmaier, who worked with Mosley in Orlando and are considered “strong candidates” to make the move to New Orleans, Scotto reports. Osbourne was in charge of the Magic’s defense, while Brielmaier holds some previous experience as a G League head coach, having led the Long Island Nets during the 2020/21 season.