Journalist Zach Lowe speaks of “NBA apocalypse” to discuss the situation of the Mavericks since the transfer of Luka Doncic. That is to say that between the injury ofAnthony Daviswhich may not replay the season, and more generally from the inner sector, the defeats that accumulate and then the rupture of a cross ligament by Kyrie Irving, everything that can be wrong seems to be very bad in Texas …
In the staff of Jason Kidd too, the bad news accumulates since Marko Milic, the Slovenian assistant, slammed the door, and that Darrell Armstrong was suspended after being arrested by the police!
Now, it is Alex Jensenone of the first assistants of Jason Kidd, who decides to leave. He will still end the season in Texas, before spinning in NCAA.
At 48, he will take over the management of the UTES, the basketball team at the University of Utah, replacing Craig Smith. It must be said that Alex Jensen is a local legend. Born in UTAH, he was appointed “Mr. Basketball” in UTAH in 1994, before joining the local university, which he helped to compete four times the “March Madness”, notably with a lost final against Kentucky, in 1998, with Andre Miller and Michael Doleac.
A big job with Rudy Gobert
From a Mormon confession, Alex Jensen had nevertheless put his university career on pause for two seasons, the time to carry out his compulsory mission of two years in England.
Subsequently, he played in Europe, especially in Türkiye, and Japan, before embarking on “coaching”. Between 2013 and 2023, he returned to Utah to become a assistant of Tyrone Corbin then at Quin Snyder, working a lot with Rudy Gobert and the interiors of the club. For the past two years, he had joined Jason Kidd's staff.
“It's a fantastic day for our male basketball program and for the Utah University community, because Alex Jensen officially returns to Salt Lake City as a coach”explained Mark Harlan, Sports Director of FAC. “Alex brings with him a considerable experience as a coach at the university, NBA and international level, and he is respected for his ability to develop players and teach the game. Alex has a vision and a plan to bring back the basketball program of the Runnin 'Utes among the national elite, and I am sure that he will raise our program and revive our supporters along the way.”
It has been indeed for years that the university runs after its glorious past, the university having won the university title in 1944 but having not participated in the “March Madness” since 2016.
