The Washington Wizards introduced at the moment the next teaching workers updates:
Adam Caporn, Wizards lead assistantPatrick Ewing, Wizards assistant coachCody Toppert, Wizards assistant coachSteve Clifford, Wizards teaching advisorTevon Saddler, Capital Metropolis Go-Go head coach/Wizards assistant coachT.J. Sorrentine, Las Vegas Summer time League head coach
Caporn strikes to guide assistant on Keefe’s bench as he enters his third season with the workforce. The Baldivis, Australia, native was named head coach of the Australian Males’s Nationwide Staff in March 2025, and has served over 10 years with Australia Basketball as an assistant coach with the Nationwide Staff (2017-present) and as head coach of the U19 Nationwide Staff (2014-16). Caporn spent three seasons within the Brooklyn Nets group as an assistant coach (2022-24) and the top coach of the Lengthy Island Nets (2021-22).
Ewing joins Keefe’s workers as an assistant coach after most just lately serving as the top coach of Georgetown from 2017-2023. Following an illustrious NBA profession, which noticed him voted to 11 All-Star video games and 7 All-NBA groups as a member of the New York Knicks, Ewing started his teaching profession as an assistant with the Wizards in 2002. After serving in assistant roles with the Houston Rockets (2003-07), Orlando Magic (2007-12), and Charlotte Bobcats (2013-17), Ewing was named the top coach of his alma mater Georgetown in 2017. The Kingston, Jamaica, native was named to the NBA’s fiftieth Anniversary Staff in 1996 and the seventy fifth Anniversary Staff in 2022.
Toppert joins Keefe’s bench in a full-time position after spending the earlier three seasons as the top coach of the Capital Metropolis Go-Go. Toppert amassed an 85-65 (.567) file in his tenure with Capital Metropolis, main the workforce to three-consecutive playoff appearances and two G League Showcases. He led Capital Metropolis to a franchise-record 31 wins in 2024-25 and coached 13 completely different gamers to NBA call-ups.
Clifford served as a training advisor with the Phoenix Suns in 2025-26 and involves Washington with over 40 years of teaching expertise. After almost 20 years at the highschool and collegiate stage, Clifford took his first NBA teaching position as an assistant with the New York Knicks from 2001-03. The Newport, Vermont, native served as an assistant with the Houston Rockets (2003-07), Orlando Magic (2007-12), and Los Angeles Lakers (2012-13), earlier than taking his first head teaching job with the Charlotte Bobcats (later Hornets) from 2013-18. Clifford spent three seasons as head coach of the Magic (2018-21) earlier than returning to Charlotte from 2022-24.
Saddler turns into the fifth head coach in Go-Go historical past, coming to Capital Metropolis after spending the final three seasons as the top coach of Nicholls State College. On the time of his hiring in 2023, Saddler was the youngest energetic Division I head coach within the nation. He was named a 2024 Joe B. Corridor Nationwide Coach of the Yr Finalist (prime 1st-year head coach) after main Nicholls State to twenty wins, probably the most by a first-year coach in class historical past. Saddler led the Colonels to their first back-to-back 20-win seasons in program historical past and collected an total file of 54-46 (.540) in his tenure.
Sorrentine has spent the earlier two seasons as an assistant coach on Brian Keefe’s workers and would be the head coach at NBA Summer time League for the primary time in his profession. He spent 16 seasons on the Brown College teaching workers as an assistant coach and served because the affiliate head coach from 2011 till becoming a member of Washington in 2024. A member of the New England Basketball Corridor of Fame and the College of Vermont Corridor of Fame, Sorrentine performed professionally for 3 seasons in Slovenia, Portugal, Italy, and the then NBA D-League.
David Vanterpool transitions to a basketball operations position within the entrance workplace after serving as a Wizards assistant coach the previous three seasons.
