Nate Oats is plucking from a stage above for subsequent season’s teaching workers at Alabama.
Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported on Wednesday that Alabama is hiring Brian Adams of the Detroit Pistons. Adams will now be serving as an assistant on the workers of Oats.
For many of the final decade, Adams had been an NBA assistant coach underneath Doc Rivers on each the L.A. Clippers and the Philadelphia 76ers. He had additionally beforehand coached as an assistant in school for Harvard after which Marist. Adams joined the Pistons as an assistant coach final season after taking an uncommon teaching detour outdoors of the nation.
Alabama is coming off a stellar 2023-24 season wherein it made its first Remaining 4 look in program historical past (earlier than dropping to ultimately champions UConn). Oats, who has coached Alabama for the final 5 seasons, already added one other former NBA assistant coach to his workers final 12 months and is now doing so once more right here with Adams.