UVA Basketball coach Tony Bennett has a spot open on his staff, with the news heading into the weekend that assistant coach Johnny Carpenter is leaving for a job with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies.
“Not an easy goodbye to make … Thank You UVA!” Carpenter wrote in a message posted to his Instagram account on Friday.
The 2013 UVA alum was a student manager under Bennett for his four years as an undergrad and a grad assistant for the women’s basketball program in the 2013-2014 season as he worked on his master’s.
Carpenter then spent a year with the Dallas Mavericks, under UVA Basketball alum Rick Carlisle, as an assistant video coordinator, before returning to UVA in 2015.
He had one other touch with the NBA, serving as a training-camp coach for the Indiana Pacers, again under Carlisle, in the summer of 2022.
Carpenter had just finished his second season as one of Bennett’s five lead assistants this past spring, after serving as the director of player personnel for five years and a basketball technology assistant for two.
He somehow found time to work in the time to finish a second master’s, an MBA from the Darden School at UVA, which he completed in 2023.
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