Former NBA champion and 19-year veteran Jason Terry is joining the staff of new Jazz coach Will Hardy, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Saturday.
Terry, who was also on Utah’s list of candidates during its coaching search, will serve as an assistant under Hardy entering this season. The move effectively ends the 44-year-old’s head coaching stint with the Nuggets’ NBA G League affiliate, Grand Rapids Gold, less than a year after his arrival last August. Terry led the Gold to a 17–15 record in the 2021–22 season but fell short of securing a playoff berth.
Prior to his time with Grand Rapids, he held a brief tenure as an assistant with his alma mater Arizona for the 2020–21 campaign and spent the 2019-20 season as the assistant general manager for the Texas Legends, the G League affiliate of the Mavericks—his home for eight NBA seasons. He also spent time playing in Ice Cube’s Big3 Basketball League in ’19.