{"id":2136,"date":"2026-06-23T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:05:02","slug":"dallas-mavericks-hire-reigning-national-champion-coach-dusty-may-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2136","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks hire reigning national champion coach Dusty May from Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks are hiring Michigan head coach Dusty May to the same role, according to the Associated Press, Dallas Morning News and ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2134\">Smoke triggers alert for \u2018very unhealthy\u2019 air quality in parts of Miami-Dade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks hired their new head coach just a day before the NBA Draft, when several Michigan players are expected to be among those selected.<\/p>\n<p>Dusty May and Michigan won the 2026 national championship over UConn after going 34-3. They opened the NCAA Tournament by becoming the first team ever to score at least 90 points in five consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>That came three years after the 49-year-old May led Florida Atlantic to its only Final Four appearance. The Owls returned to the NCAA tourney in 2024 before May was hired by Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>May replaces Jason Kidd, who was let go two weeks after Masai Ujiri was hired as president of basketball operations and alternate governor of the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>He comes to the NBA with a chance to mold 2025 No. 1 overall draft pick and reigning Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg. Veteran star Kyrie Irving is also on the roster for now after missing the entire 2025-26 season following an ACL year in March of last year.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Michigan Wolverines defeated the UConn Huskies 69-63 on April 6 to win their first national championship since 1989, capping one of the most dominant tournament runs in March Madness history.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>May began his college coaching career as an assistant at Murray State in 2005-06. He then served on staffs at UAB, Louisiana Tech and Florida before getting his first head coaching job at Florida Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The Owls went 35-4 during their dream season in 2022-23, which ended with a\u00a072-71 loss to San Diego State\u00a0in the national semifinals after Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beating shot for the Aztecs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a fan of Dusty\u2019s when he was at FAU,\u201d said Yaxel Lendeborg, who played for May at Michigan and is widely expected to be a lottery pick in the first round of Tuesday\u2019s NBA draft. \u201cAnd now, after playing for him, I\u2019m a bigger fan. I have so much respect for Dusty May, I can\u2019t even tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2132\">Man killed in crash that shut down all lanes of southbound Don Shula Expressway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lendeborg said at last month\u2019s draft combine that he felt like May ran Michigan\u2019s program like an NBA program in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe taught us a lot of things that are being used in the NBA now,\u201d Lendeborg said. \u201cA lot of schemes, a lot of switching and stuff. And his offense was very much a pro-style offense. We played fast-paced, physical, all of that. &#8230; I\u2019ve gained so much knowledge from him as far as those actions and just those little communication keys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s rise in coaching has been meteoric, particularly after the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He took over at Florida Atlantic in 2018 and had four consecutive seasons of finishing just over .500 \u2014 before striking gold in the 2022-23 season, going 35-4 and taking the Owls on that improbable Final Four run.<\/p>\n<p>He went 25-9 at FAU the following season, then went to Michigan and brought the Wolverines back to prominence. Michigan went 27-10 two seasons ago before the run to the championship.<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s record in his last four college seasons was 124-26, an .827 winning percentage that was third best in all of major college men\u2019s basketball over that span behind Houston\u2019s Kelvin Sampson (.861) and Duke\u2019s Jon Scheyer (.832).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><em>AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami and AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins in Arlington, Texas, contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2131\">Deadly crash shuts down all lanes of southbound Don Shula Expressway<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks are hiring Michigan coach Dusty May after his 2026 national championship season and 34-3 run, reports say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-mavericks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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