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Alex Jensen will not return to Jazz bench next season
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SALT LAKE CITY — Alex Jensen won’t be returning to the Utah Jazz bench subsequent season.
The previous College of Utah star and longest tenured Jazz assistant won’t be retained by Jazz coach Will Hardy, KSL.com has confirmed. The Athletic was the primary to report the information.
Jazz assistant Irv Roland will even not be retained.
Jensen had been with the group for a decade and had labored underneath three completely different head coaches. He was first employed to Ty Corbin’s employees in 2013 and remained when Quin Snyder took over in 2014.
Jensen rose to guide assistant throughout his time with Snyder, and served as interim coach when Snyder was out with a bout of COVID-19 in the course of the 2021-22 season. He was additionally instrumental to Rudy Gobert’s rise from a thin teenager to a three-time Defensive Participant of the Yr.
His monitor report made him a candidate for quite a few head teaching jobs over the past half decade.
Roland, in the meantime, joined the Jazz employees in September 2021. He had beforehand frolicked with the Houston Rockets (the place he gained favor with James Harden), the Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Pelicans.
Hardy, who inherited many of the employees after being employed final summer season, spoke glowingly about his assistants a number of days after the season.
“Our employees is pretty much as good as anyone within the league. We’ve plenty of actually good coaches right here,” Hardy mentioned. “They’re as large part of why we had the 12 months we did as something. Their voice on the court docket with the gamers, the person work they did, the scouting they did, them coping with a coach who typically would go off the trail, they stored me in verify.”
Nevertheless, as a result of lack of turnover main into Hardy’s first seasons, it is not a shock to see extra adjustments coming this offseason. Hardy even hinted as such a pair days after the season concluded.
“It is a league of change. And what occurs this offseason, I am undecided,” he mentioned. “There’s at all times been instances the place folks get jobs and name about folks which can be in your employees. We by no means wish to maintain folks again from nice alternatives for them and their household.”