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Dallas Wings hire veteran WNBA coach Curt Miller as general manager and VP of basketball operations

Miller, a two-time WNBA coach of the year, parted ways with the Los Angeles Sparks in September after a league-worst finish

kari anderson
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Los Angeles, CA - September 17: Head coach Curt Miller of the Los Angeles Sparks reacts against the Phoenix Mercury in the first half of a WNBA basketball game at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
Curt Miller served as head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks the last two seasons. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/Getty Images)

The Dallas Wings have begun to fill some front-office vacancies, hiring veteran WNBA head coach Curt Miller as executive vice president of basketball operations and general manager. The team announced the news with a statement Friday.

Miller, a two-time WNBA Coach of the Year, most recently coached for two years with the Los Angeles Sparks. He and the Sparks parted ways in September after an 8-32 record.

Miller was the first of many WNBA coaches on the move in what has been a busy offseason already. The Wings also fired head coach Latricia Trammell following the team's 11th-place finish and will need to fill that role before the 2025 season.

Per ESPN's Alexa Philipou, multiple teams showed interest in Miller for their head coaching vacancies, but he will now land as an executive with Dallas.

Prior to his time with the Sparks, Miller was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun from 2016-22, leading the team to two WNBA Finals. He was promoted to general manager in 2016, holding that job as well as the head-coaching job for the remainder of his time there.

Miller was named WNBA Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2022. In 2017, he also picked up WNBA Executive of the Year in addition to his coaching honor — a league first. (Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations Cheryl Reeve accomplished the same feat this season, becoming the second person to do so.)

Miller will now turn his attention to Dallas, a team that went 9-31 despite having star players like guard Arike Ogunbowale and forwards Satou Sabally and Natasha Howard. Sabally and Howard are free agents, marking another task for the new executive to solve heading into the offseason.