Supply: Howard reaches deal to teach Michigan
Miami Warmth assistant and former Michigan star Juwan Howard has reached settlement on a five-year contract to be the following head coach of the Wolverines, a supply informed ESPN.
Howard will exchange John Beilein, who left Michigan final week to change into the top coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Beilein was with the Wolverines for 12 seasons, main them to 2 nationwide championship video games.
Howard met with Michigan officers earlier this week, sources stated, and have become the front-runner as soon as Windfall’s Ed Cooley withdrew from consideration and introduced he was returning to the Friars.
Howard, 46, was a member of Michigan’s Fab 5 recruiting class in 1991, together with Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson. Throughout Howard’s three seasons in Ann Arbor, he helped lead the Wolverines to 2 nationwide championship video games and an Elite Eight look. He averaged 15.three factors and seven.5 rebounds throughout his Michigan profession.
Howard then performed for 19 seasons within the NBA, spending time with eight franchises. He received two NBA championships with the Warmth, in 2012 and ’13, and earned NBA All-Star honors in 1996.
Since retiring in 2013, Howard has been an assistant coach with the Warmth below Erik Spoelstra. He interviewed for a number of NBA openings this spring, together with these of the Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Lakers.
A number of present and former NBA gamers backed Howard’s hiring at Michigan after information of his interview surfaced earlier this week.
“Discuss to me good. Say it’s so!!!? My man deserves this chance. It will solely be proper,” former Warmth star Dwyane Wade wrote on Twitter.
Added LeBron James on social media: “Man WHAT!!!!?? Completely the best alternative and that i hope it turns into a achieved deal ASAP!! Considered one of my favourite folks I’ve ever met on the age of 16 and been round since then.”
With Howard’s settlement, Michigan is now the one present Division I faculty to have alums teaching each the soccer (Jim Harbaugh) and males’s basketball packages. He additionally would be the seventh coach in Michigan historical past to teach at his alma mater, and first since Invoice Frieder within the 1980s.
A number of retailers reported Howard had reached an settlement in precept with the Wolverines earlier Wednesday.
Data from ESPN’s Jeff Borzello was used on this report.