The Portland Trail Blazers are set to name Minnesota Timberwolves lead assistant Micah Nori their next head coach.

The move comes a little over a week after Portland interim head coach Tiago Splitter was hired to lead the Chicago Bulls.

Splitter got his first taste of being an NBA head coach last season, as the Trail Blazers promoted the former player following Chauncey Billups’ arrest in connection with a gambling investigation.

Portland went 42-40 and beat the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Play-In Tournament to secure the seventh seed in the Western Conference and reach the postseason for the first time since 2021.

The Trail Blazers opened the play-offs at No. 2 seed San Antonio, and the teams split the first two matchups before the eventual West champion Spurs won the next three to close out the first-round series.

The 52-year-old Nori served as an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors (2009-13), Sacramento Kings (2013-15), Denver Nuggets (2015-18) and Detroit Pistons (2018-21) before joining Minnesota as the team’s lead assistant.

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