Hardaway adds ex-Suns assistant Toppert to Memphis' staff
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has added more NBA experience to his staff by hiring former Phoenix Suns assistant Cody Toppert.
Toppert spent the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach and director of player development on a Suns staff headed by Igor Kokoskov. The staff was fired at the end of the season.
Toppert will be an assistant coach at Memphis. He replaces Sam Mitchell, a former NBA coach who left Memphis' staff after the 2018-19 season to pursue a business opportunity. Hardaway and Memphis assistant Mike Miller are former NBA players.
Before joining the Suns' staff, Toppert spent three seasons coaching in the NBA G League. He was an assistant with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers from 2015-17 and head coach of the Northern Arizona Suns in 2017-18.
Toppert was a four-year starter at Cornell from 2001-05.
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