Overview
- The move is the NBA’s first coaching change of the season and follows an 0-6 opening stretch that featured three 30-point defeats and a current four-game skid.
- Associate head coach James Borrego, a former Hornets head coach, was promoted to interim and is set to debut Sunday at home against the Warriors.
- Dumars, empowered by owner Gayle Benson to make basketball decisions, said the team was “losing the same way, over and over again” and needed a new standard of nightly competitiveness.
- Injuries have compounded the slide, with Zion Williamson limited to five games by a hamstring strain, Jordan Poole sidelined by a quad issue, and Dejounte Murray still out recovering from an Achilles tear.
- Green departs with a 150-190 record and two first-round playoff exits, as attention turns to Dumars’ roster direction, including a reported trade of 2026 first-round control to draft rookie Derik Queen.