Washington Huskies assistant coach Quincy Pondexter is reportedly set to change into the top coach of the Chicago Bulls’ NBA G-League affiliate, the Windy Metropolis Bulls.
Pondexter, a standout on the court docket for the Huskies from 2006-10 who returned for his second teaching stint at his alma mater previous to the 2025-26 season, is anticipated to be employed because the Windy Metropolis Bulls’ subsequent coach, in response to a report on Sunday.
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The 6-foot-7 former ahead from Fresno, California, performed for the Bulls throughout the 2017-18 season beneath coach Fred Hoiberg, who has since returned to the school ranks as Nebraska’s head coach. Pondexter has by no means been a head coach since getting into the occupation at UW in 2021 beneath former coach Mike Hopkins.
As of Monday afternoon, neither UW nor the Windy Metropolis Bulls confirmed the report of Pondexter being employed to switch former coach Billy Donovan III, the son of two-time NCAA champion Billy Donovan.
Based in 2016, the NBA G-League franchise has solely two successful seasons—the primary in 2018-19 and the final in 2022-23—and one playoff look whereas using 5 totally different coaches throughout that stretch. With Pondexter set to be the sixth coach to steer the staff, it is a gamble on each side, however one every feels now’s the best time to take.
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Pondexter, a first-round decide (No. 20 total) within the 2010 NBA draft by the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder earlier than being traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, spent three seasons as an assistant beneath Hopkins from 2021-24, after which made the transfer with fellow UW assistant and former participant Will Conroy to hitch Eric Musselman’s workers at USC for the 2024-25 marketing campaign.
He returned to Montlake, together with standout sophomore guard Wesley Yates III, for his second go-round in 2025-26 beneath coach Danny Sprinkle. Since final season concluded in March, the third-year Huskies’ coach has employed two new assistants, DeAndre Haynes from Marquette and Charles Klask from the skilled ranks, and never retained one other assistant in DeMarlo Slocum after he spent the previous two seasons at UW with Sprinkle.
Moreover, particular assistant Jerry Hobbie left this system to hitch Jamie Dixon’s workers at TCU, and no rent has been made publicly to switch the veteran coach with the identical title. Affiliate head coach Andy Hill, who has been with Sprinkle at each of his earlier two faculties—Montana State and Utah State—and former Husky turned assistant Abdul Gaddy each stay on the bench from final season going into the 2026-27 season.
This text initially appeared on Huskies Wire: Chicago Bulls G-League Affiliate Reportedly Hires Washington Assistant