The Orlando Magic have continued the process of filling out their coaching staff under new coach Sean Sweeney.
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Magic President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman announced that Joe Prunty, Greg Buckner, Popeye Jones, Tom Bialaszewski, Riley Crean, Jon Harris, Ben Johnson, Jacqlyn Poss and Mfon Udofia will serve as assistant coaches, while D.J. Bakker will serve as assistant coach/director of player development and Shannan Lum will serve as assistant coach/director of coaching operations.
The team also announced that Curt Lewis (head video coordinator) and Nicholas Russo (manager of basketball strategy) have been added to the operations department.
The moves come more than a month after Sweeney was named coach of the Magic on June 1.
The Sentinel previously reported the signings of Bakker, Udofia and Crean.
Prunty returns for his second season as an assistant with the Magic, having previously served with the San Antonio Spurs, where he won three NBA championships (1999, 2003, 2005) while appearing in four NBA Finals.
He also served on the coaching staffs at Milwaukee, Atlanta, Phoenix, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Portland and Dallas.
Buckner comes to Orlando after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks. Before Milwaukee, he spent four seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, first as an assistant and then as associate head coach. Buckner also served as an assistant with the Memphis Grizzlies and the Houston Rockets. He spent 10 seasons in the NBA as a player, drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1998 NBA Draft with stops at Philadelphia, Denver, Minnesota and Memphis.
Jones, 56, was drafted by the Rockets in 1992 and played 11 seasons in the league with stops in Toronto, Boston, Denver, Washington and Golden State. He transitioned into coaching, first serving as an assistant with the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets and then with Indiana, Philadelphia, Denver and Dallas.
Bakker spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Charlotte Hornets, while also serving as head coach for the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League, leading the team to the G League Championship in 2025-26. He previously was an assistant coach with Milwaukee, Detroit, Dallas, Toronto and spent one season as a regional advance scout for the Magic in 2013-14.
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Bialaszewski previously worked with Sweeney while serving as an advance scout for the Spurs during the 2025-26 season. He also was head coach of Varese in Italy and served as an assistant coach for Olimpia Milano for three seasons.
Crean spent four seasons in Dallas, serving as a video intern before being promoted to assistant video coordinator and then head video coordinator. He served as student manager for the men’s basketball team at the University of Georgia, under his father, Tom, who was the Bulldogs’ head coach.
Harris also reunites with Sweeney after spending the past four seasons with the Spurs, most recently as assistant video coordinator/player development. Before the NBA, he served as a graduate assistant with the men’s basketball program at Florida State under legendary coach Leonard Hamilton.
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Johnson comes from the college ranks, where he was the men’s basketball coach at Minnesota for four seasons (2021-25). He also served as an assistant coach at Xavier, Nebraska, Northern Iowa and Texas-Pan American.
Poss returns for her fifth season with the Magic, but her first as an assistant coach. She arrived in 2023 and spent three seasons working as a senior data scientist within the basketball operations department.
Udofia arrives after serving as head coach of the Long Island Nets of the NBA G League from 2023-26. He’s spent a decade in the G League, working with teams such as the Ontario Clippers, Capital City Go-Go, College Park Skyhawks and Erie BayHawks.
Lum recently served as an assistant coach with the Texas Legends of the NBA G League during the 2025-26 season. Prior to that, she spent four seasons with the Dallas Mavericks as quality control coach/special assistant to the head coach.
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