Sacramento Kings announce changes to coaching staff, including new associate head coach
The Sacramento Kings are making several changes to their coaching staff as they prepare to open training camp Oct. 1.
The team announced Monday that Jay Triano has been promoted to associate head coach, making him the lead assistant to head coach Mike Brown. Triano replaces Jordi Fernandez, who was hired in April as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets.
Triano, 65, came to Sacramento to join Brown’s staff in May 2022. As the team’s offensive coordinator, Triano was credited with helping the Kings set a record with the highest offensive rating in NBA history in 2022-23. The Kings finished third in the Western Conference that season, ending the longest playoff drought in league history after 16 consecutive losing seasons.
Triano has more than 20 years of NBA coaching experience with two tours as a head coach. He started as an assistant with the Toronto Raptors from 2002-08 before serving as head coach from 2008-11.
Triano later worked as an assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers (2012-16) and Phoenix Suns (2016-17) before he was named head coach of the Suns in 2017-18. He was an assistant with the Charlotte Hornets from 2018-22 before he was hired by the Kings.
The Kings also announced that Jawad Williams has been promoted to assistant coach/director of player development and Charles Allen has been promoted to player development coach. Dipesh Mistry will now serve as head video coordinator/player development coach, Sam Logwood has been named assistant video coordinator and Shandon Goldman has been promoted to video assistant.
In addition, the Kings have hired Riccardo Fois and Jim Moran as assistant coaches.
Fois, a native of Olbia, Italy, previously worked as an assistant coach with the Arizona Wildcats (2021-24). Prior to his time at Arizona, he spent two seasons with the Phoenix Suns (2019-21) in a player development role and five seasons at Gonzaga (2014-19) as director of analytics. Fois began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Pepperdine, his alma mater, from 2012-14 after playing professionally in Italy from 2009-12.
Moran, a Syosset, New York native, joins Sacramento after serving as head coach of the Portland Trailblazers G League affiliate, the Rip City Remix, in 2023-24. He previously served as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons (2021-23) and Portland Trail Blazers (2015-2021).
Moran began his NBA career in player development for the G League’s Maine Red Claws in 2013 and was Portland’s associate video coordinator in 2014-15. He played his entire professional career from 2001-11 for CB Gran Canaria in Spain’s Liga ACB and became the first player in Gran Canaria history to have his jersey retired.
This story was originally published September 9, 2024 at 1:50 PM.
