Dallas Mavericks hire Dusty May as head coach

Breaking: Michigan coach Dusty May is finalizing a deal to take the Dallas Mavericks head coaching job, sources tell Pete Thamel, Shams Charania and Adam Schefter.

Dusty May was in Ann Arbor for 27 months. He won as many national titles in that time as Tom Izzo has won in his 31 years in East Lansing. So… there’s that.

BREAKING: University of Michigan coach Dusty May has agreed to become the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell me, @AdamSchefter, @PeteThamel. Major college-to-pro jump for the 2026 NCAA championship coach and swing for the Mavericks and Masai Ujiri.

The Dallas Mavericks have named Michigan Wolverines' Dusty May as their new head coach, The Athletic confirms. May won a national championship with Michigan in April. www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

ESPN is reporting Michigan MBB coach Dusty May is taking the Dallas Mavericks job.

Some folks may not coach the Dallas Mavericks but Dusty May.

Dusty May knew he would never win at the college level again without the fierce motivating presence of Brooke Quarles Daniels in the building

peak coach brain is looking at the dallas mavericks and thinking "i can fix her"

Dusty May to the Mavs. Really, really good coach. www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

I don't do content lists or whatever but if I were Michigan I would simply call Dusty May's best friend, Josh Schertz, and see what his price might be. Then when he says no, I would do the same thing in nine months after Interim HC Mike Boynton takes the Wolverines to a 6 seed

Last 2 head coaches to leave college job for NBA: Dusty May (Michigan to Mavs, 2026) John Beilein (Michigan to Cavs, 2019)

Dusty May will be the next head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, per Shams Charania. May led the Michigan Wolverines to a 37-3 record and the program's first National Championship since 1989, and will now take the reigns as Cooper Flagg's second coach in the NBA.

Dusty May leaving Michigan for the Dallas Mavericks job really is Duke and UNC being "blessed".

the dallas mavericks are becoming the first nba team to hire a coach that lost to northwestern in the ncaa tournament

Wow. Dusty May. Gang, Brayden Burries is in play. Jaylen, Hugo, Burries, 27... oh my god what am I letting myself believe. I am an idiot.