Warriors to hire pair of veteran coaches to bench

The Warriors wanted to add more experience to their coaching staff, and appear to have accomplished as much.

The Warriors are planning to hire Terry Stotts as their new lead assistant and Jerry Stackhouse as another assistant, league sources confirmed to this news organization. The additions come after Kenny Atkinson, Steve Kerr’s top assistant from last season, departed for the Cleveland job.

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report the news.

Stotts has 13 years of head coaching experience at the NBA level, most recently from 2012 to 2021 with the Blazers. In Portland, Stotts amassed a 402-318 record and helped the Blazers to eight postseason appearances in nine seasons.

In the 2004-05 season, Stotts served as an assistant coach for the Warriors under Mike Montgomery.

Stackhouse has spent the last five seasons as Vanderbilt’s head coach. He took a rebuilding program to a 22-15 record in 2022-23, but the Commodores took a step back and went 9-23 last year.

Stackhouse played 18 seasons in the NBA and was named to two All-Star teams. He averaged 16.9 points per game in his career and retired in 2013, having played for Detroit, Dallas, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Milwaukee, Miami and Atlanta.

If the Warriors’ coaching staff from last year returns, Stotts and Stackhouse will be joined by Chris DeMarco, Bruce Fraser, Anthony Vereen, Ron Adams and others.