Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA Insider
Orlando Magic workman Nate Tibbetts is finalizing a trade in to develop into the brandnew mentor of the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, assets instructed ESPN on Monday.
The trade in will form Tibbetts the highest-paid mentor in WNBA historical past, assets mentioned.
Tibbetts has been a revered longtime mentor within the NBA, together with workman stops with Portland and Cleveland over the occasion decade ahead of becoming a member of Jamahl Mosley’s body of workers as supremacy workman two years in the past.
Tibbetts’ hiring is every other vital rent for the Suns-Mercury group that began with proprietor Mat Ishbia luring Nick U’Ren from the Golden State Warriors as common supervisor. Ishbia tasked U’Ren and CEO Josh Bartelstein with the training seek that lands Tibbetts with the Mercury now.
Phoenix just lately introduced plans to develop a contemporary, devoted follow facility as a part of a brandnew $100 million funding. The Mercury completed with the WNBA’s worst file, 9-31, this season.
