Former NBA head coach Sam Mitchell will be the head coach of the new Select Team in the G League in Southern California that will be headlined by the five-star prospect for the 20201 NBA Draft, according to Emiliano Carchia from Sportando.
Sam Mitchell will be the head coach of G League’s newly formed “Select Team”, a source told @Sportando.
Mitchell has already coached five-star prospect Jalen Green in AAU and also recruited him to the University of Memphis https://t.co/ElhVYIXxL1— Emiliano Carchia (@Carchia) April 20, 2020
Mitchell has already coached Green during the AAU tournaments and recruited Green for the University of Memphis before he decided to not attend college and play in the G League for next season.
The main goal for Mitchell as the head coach is to teach the young prospects that will join the team is to teach them life and professional skills to prepare them before the they play in the NBA. Following comes from Adam Zagoria from ForbesSports:
“Some of these kids are ready, some of these kids don’t want to go to school, they want to be pros. They want that lifestyle, and that’s the thing that we’re going to teach them. .. There’s a lot of things to being a pro other than being able to dribble and shoot and pass… It’s for their development, for their growth, but it’s also going to teach them a lot of life skills and professional skills that they’re going to need to navigate throughout the NBA if they want a long career.”
Mitchell played in the NBA for 13 seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Indiana Pacers. After retiring he joined the Milwaukee Bucks as an assistant coach.
Later he would be hired as the head coach of the Toronto Raptors leading the team to their first playoff appearance in the 2006-07 season for which he won the Coach of the Year award. His other coaching jobs in the NBA were with the New Jersey Nets as an assistant coach and the Minnesota Timberwolves as head coach.
