Amile Jefferson Is Leaving His Assistant Coaching Position At Duke To Become Assistant Coach For Boston In The NBA Where He Is Going To Reunite With Former Duke Teammate Jayson Tatum

For previous two seasons Amile Jefferson has been on the Duke Coaching Staff as Director Of Player Development when Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski was coaching his final season as Duke Head Coach in 2021-2022 before current Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer promoted him to Assistant Coach. Now though Jon Scheyer is going to have to hire a new Assistant Coach or Assistant Coaches as the NCAA changed its rules to allow schools to add two additional coaches to their coaching staff effective July 1, 2023 . Amile Jefferson is leaving his Assistant Coach position at Duke to become Assistant Coach for Boston in the NBA who he played for professionally in 2020.

The deal is multi year.

According to Travis Branham article on 247sports .com

According Stephen Wiseman article on newsobserver.com

Amile Jefferson leaving his Assistant Coaching position at Duke to become Assistant Coach for Boston in the NBA reunites him with former Duke teammate current Boston forward, guard Jayson Tatum!

When Jayson Tatum was a freshman in 2016-2017 Amile Jefferson was a graduate student a forward