Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has agreed to change into the final supervisor of the lads’s basketball program at Sacramento State below new coach Mike Bibby.
An individual acquainted with the scenario stated Monday that O’Neal will take the voluntary job for this system that his son, Shaqir, lately joined as a participant. The particular person spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the college hadn’t made an announcement.
ESPN first reported the information.
Bibby, the previous NBA star for the Sacramento Kings, was employed as head coach for the Hornets final month as the college tries to boost its profile in collegiate athletics.
One of many first additions Bibby made was signing Shaqir O’Neal as a switch from Florida A&M. Now Bibby has O’Neal’s father concerned in this system.
O’Neal is the most recent high-profile athlete to tackle a normal supervisor position at a university program. Stephen Curry was lately introduced because the assistant normal supervisor at Davidson and Trae Younger has that very same position at Oklahoma.
O’Neal received 4 NBA titles, three NBA Finals MVPs and a league MVP throughout his 19-year profession within the NBA. He’s at the moment an analyst on TNT’s “Contained in the NBA” present. He additionally served as a minority proprietor of the Sacramento Kings from 2013-22.
Sacramento State went 7-25 this season below interim coach Michael Czepil, who was promoted final spring after David Patrick left to take a job as affiliate head coach at LSU.
The Hornets had gone 28-42 in two seasons below Patrick and this system has by no means made an NCAA Event since transferring as much as Division I in 1991-92. The Hornets have had a profitable report solely twice since then, going 16-14 in 2019-20 and 21-12 in 2014-15.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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