Monty Williams, Phoenix Suns Head Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Episode 368
Monty Williams is the head coach of the NBA's Phoenix Suns. He was named to his current role in May 2019 after serving as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers last season.
Selected in the first round of the 1994 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks, Monty played 11 seasons in the NBA with the Knicks, Spurs, Nuggets, Magic and 76ers.
After his playing career finished, Monty went into coaching, serving as as assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers for 5 seasons before being named the head coach of the then New Orleans Hornets, now Pelicans franchise.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Monty Williams about his new role with the Suns, coming to faith in Christ, the state of faith in the NBA today, and how he's processed grief and forgiveness since the loss of his wife 3 years ago in a tragic car crash.
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| 1:00.5 | Really excited to welcome Phoenix Sun's head coach Monty Williams to the podcast today. |
| 1:04.6 | Moni spent 10 years in the NBA as a player. |
| 1:10.4 | He was selected in the first round of the 1994 NBA draft by the New York Knicks after a very successful playing career in college at Notre Dame, |
| 1:14.0 | played in the NBA from 1994 to 2004 with the Knicks, the Spurs, the Nuggets, the Magic, and the 76ers, |
| 1:22.1 | and then entered the world of coaching with the Portland Trailblazers as an assistant |
| 1:26.4 | than the Hornets slash Pelicans in |
| 1:29.2 | New Orleans as their head coach from 2010 to 2015. He spent time with Oklahoma City and the |
| 1:36.3 | Thunder as an assistant as well as the 76ers this past season. And then in May of 2019, |
| 1:42.3 | he was named the head coach, the head man with the Phoenix sons. |
| 1:48.0 | Monty is an outspoken man of faith. |
| 1:50.4 | He is not shy about porning to the one that has provided him with so many blessings. |
| 1:56.4 | And on this episode of the podcast, we also talked to Monty about faith in the NBA, certainly acclimating |
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