USA Basketball has named Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault, Detroit Pistons head coach JB Bickerstaff and Gonzaga head coach Mark Few as the assistants for Erik Spoelstra's national team staff.
Last September, Spoelstra was named the successor to Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr following the gold medal run in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"We're really excited about it," Spoelstra said. "We wanted to try to zero in on this a little bit earlier in the process so we can start to get more organized and start to have some level of communication and continuity. The earlier the better, so I'm really excited about that."
Few is the most veteran national team assistant of the group, having served in several capacities for Team USA in the past decade, including as an assistant next to Spoelstra since 2021.
This will be the first national team experience for Daigneault and Bickerstaff, two of the NBA's rising young coaches. Daigneault's Thunder have led the NBA in wins the past two seasons and won the 2025 championship. The Pistons have surged the past two seasons under Bickerstaff and won an Eastern Conference-best 60 games this past year.
"I'm grateful," Daigneault said. "Even after being offered the position and accepting it, I can't even conceptualize what it'll feel like because I've never been to an Olympics. For everybody involved, I think it's a very humbling and overwhelming experience. I'm sure it's going to be the same for me."
Team USA will next compete in the World Cup qualifiers in late August, facing Chile and Columbia in an effort to advance to the 2027 World Cup in Qatar.
The team has already automatically qualified for the 2028 Olympics with Los Angeles as the host city.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.