Former NBA star JJ Redick set for career change with ESPN analyst sounded out for head coaching role [Video]

NBA veteran JJ Redick is set to interview for the head coaching job of the Charlotte Hornets.

Redick played for 15 years in the NBA, but has no professional or collegiate coaching experience at any level.

Indeed, basketball fans now know Reddick as a broadcaster.

He has been with ESPN since retiring in 2021, in what has become a prolific second career.

Reddick calls games for the network, appears on studio shows and has hosted podcasts.

As well as his own podcast, The Old Man and the Three, he also co-hosts a new podcast with Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James called Mind the Game.

Reddick is known to be a thinker about the game, with qualities that could well be suited to coaching.

And Shams Charania, a reporter with The Athletic, posted on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, “The Charlotte Hornets …