{"id":265424,"date":"2020-08-16T05:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T09:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=265424"},"modified":"2020-08-16T05:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T09:32:49","slug":"nba-pelicans-sack-head-coach-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/16\/nba-pelicans-sack-head-coach-gentry\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Pelicans sack head coach Gentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alvin Gentry has been relieved of his head coaching duties.<\/p>\n<p>Story:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RhbAvMAryh\">https:\/\/t.co\/RhbAvMAryh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/unDvEPtAsf\">pic.twitter.com\/unDvEPtAsf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PelicansNBA\/status\/1294676658608373761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday dismissed head coach Alvin Gentry after missing the 2020 NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alvin Gentry has been relieved of his head coaching duties,&#8221; the Pelicans said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle Benson, the Western Conference franchise&#8217;s owner, said a change is now &#8220;necessary&#8221; for the Pelicans as the fans need a head coach who can lead the team to the championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank Alvin for his contributions to the Pelicans and the New Orleans community,&#8221; Benson said.<\/p>\n<p>She also thanked Gentry for the efforts and wished him the best in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Gentry was hired as the Pelicans head coach in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In his five-season spell in the Big Easy, Gentry took the Pelicans to the 2018 playoffs, but they failed to qualify for the 2020 playoffs with a 30-42 win-loss record in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bulls fire Boylen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Chicago Bulls sacked head coach Jim Boylen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chicago Bulls Executive Vice President \u2013 Basketball Operations Arturas Karnisovas announced today that Jim Boylen has been relieved of his duties as head coach,&#8221; the Eastern Conference franchise said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Boylen, the Bulls\u2019 associate head coach in the 2015-16 season, was named head coach in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls were unable to advance to the Orlando Bubble, where the remainder of the 2019-20 season \u2013 including the playoffs \u2013 is set to be played amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They won 22 games but lost 43 in the regular season to be eliminated.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin Gentry has been relieved of his head coaching duties. Story: https:\/\/t.co\/RhbAvMAryh pic.twitter.com\/unDvEPtAsf &mdash; New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) August 15, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":265426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265429,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265424\/revisions\/265429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}