NBA coach steps aside after cancer diagnosis

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An adjunct manager successful the NBA has taken clip distant from the crippled aft learning helium has cancer.

Philadelphia 76ers adjunct Dave Joerger made the announcement connected Sunday (AEDT).

"I volition beryllium stepping distant from the bench, effectual immediately, arsenic I was precocious diagnosed with a treatable signifier of cancer," Joerger said successful a statement.

"I volition instrumentality this clip to absorption connected my wellness and I look guardant to rejoining the squad erstwhile I've completed the attraction process."

Joerger volition acquisition radiation and chemotherapy for a signifier of caput and cervix cancer.

He was antecedently caput manager of the Memphis Grizzlies and the Sacramento Kings, earlier arriving astatine the 76ers.

"Dave is not lone 1 of the astir talented and respected coaches successful the NBA, but he's a large friend, colleague, hubby and father," 76ers manager Doc Rivers said.

"The aforesaid positivity, enthusiasm and grit that person made him a palmy manager volition besides transportation him done his combat against cancer."

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