By R.L. Bynum
Jerry Stackhouse will join the Golden State Warriors coaching staff as an assistant coach.
Stackhouse, who Vanderbilt fired after his team went 70–92 over five seasons, will join the Warriors staff along with Terry Stotts, a longtime NBA head coach, who will be the lead assistant coach under head coach Steve Kerr, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Former Duke star Mike Dunleavy Jr. is the general manager for the Warriors, who are in transition after Klay Thompson left for the Dallas Mavericks and Chris Paul left for the San Antonio Spurs.
Stackhouse, a two-time Parade All-American and a McDonald’s All-American at Kinston High School, has his No. 42 honored in the Smith Center after he was first-team All-ACC in 1995.
He has experience as an NBA assistant coach, working on the Toronto Raptors staff in 2015–16 and the Memphis Grizzlies staff in 2018–19. In between, he coached in what was then called the D League, earning Coach of Year honors in 2016–17 when his Raptors 905 team won the league title.
While at Vanderbilt, he had back-to-back winning seasons and guided the Commodores to the NIT quarterfinals in 2022 and 2023. When Vanderbilt went 22–15 in 2022–23, that was the most wins by the program since a 25-win season in 2011–12, and he earned SEC Coach of the Year honors.
Last season, though, Vanderbilt went 9–23 overall and finished 13th in the SEC with a 4–14 record.
Stackhouse, who did some studio work for NBATV during the playoffs, was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2023.
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