The Phoenix Suns fired Mike Budenholzer soon after their 2024-25 season ended without as much as a trip to the play-in tournament. Rather than hire another veteran coach, the Suns decided they wanted a first-time head coach to help establish a new culture. They found that in Jordan Ott, who most recently was an assistant for the Cavaliers.
Ott and Phoenix are 8-6 through the first few weeks of the season, having won five of their last six games. As Tim MacMahon of ESPN said on the "Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective" podcast, the early results of Ott's time in the desert are "very encouraging.