{"id":1892658,"date":"2026-07-19T08:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892658"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:23:56","slug":"malones-father-was-architect-of-the-jordan-rules-as-pistons-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892658","title":{"rendered":"Malone\u2019s father was architect of the Jordan Rules as Pistons assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father of the man who will try to lead the new era of Carolina men\u2019s basketball into greatness was the architect of a plan to stop the greatest player in program history. Michael Malone\u2019s father, Brendan Malone, spent almost 30 seasons coaching in the NBA. As a Detroit Pistons assistant coach under Chuck Daly from 1988 to 1995, he helped devise one of basketball\u2019s most famous defensive schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/07\/19\/malones-father-was-architect-of-the-jordan-rules-as-pistons-assistant-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malone&#8217;s father was architect of the Jordan Rules as Pistons assistant coach<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/07\/19\/malones-father-was-architect-of-the-jordan-rules-as-pistons-assistant-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of the man who will try to lead the new era of Carolina men\u2019s basketball into greatness was the architect of a plan to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892659,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892658\/revisions\/1892659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}