Former Boston Celtics assistant coach Jamie Young will join the staff of his former team‘s Atlantic Division rival, the Philadelphia 76ers, as an assistant according to The Athletic’s Jared Weiss and Derek Bodner.
He will reunite with former boss Doc Rivers, who elevated Young within the Celtics organization to the role of assistant coach in 2011. The former Blackburn College standout had been with the team in some capacity since 2000, predating the tenure of Boston’s last team president Danny Ainge, as one of the organization’s most senior figures before departing upon the hiring of new head coach Ime Udoka.
Having gotten his start as a video coordinator with the Celtics during the Rick Pitino era, Young’s reputation and professionalism endeared himself to his former and now new boss as the head coach of the 76ers.
Longtime Celtics assistant coach Jamie Young is reuniting with Doc Rivers on the Sixers’ staff, sources tell @JaredWeissNBA and me. Young was one of the longest serving coaches in Celtics history, spending 21 years with the franchise.
— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) August 12, 2021
“Jamie was here long before me, and I kept him on my staff because of his incredible work ethic,” Rivers said during his time in Boston via the State Journal-Register.
“He has a great basketball mind and more importantly, he is honest.”
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