A Tyrone Corbin update

A quick update on Jazz assistant coach Tyrone Corbin’s quest to land an NBA head coaching job …
Corbin, who also played small forward for the Jazz during his 14-season career, interviewed Monday in New Orleans.
He’s among eight candidates who’ve interviewed with the Hornets, along with former NBA head coaches Avery Johnson, Mike Fratello and Lawrence Frank; fellow current assistants Dwane Casey (Dallas), Tom Thibodeau (Boston) and Monty Williams (Portland); and Mark Jackson, the ex-Jazz point now working as an NBA commentator for ESPN/ABC.
There’s been no word yet on when that field will be narrowed.
Corbin also has been identified as a potential candidate in Atlanta, which according to the New Orleans Times Picayune interviewed Johnson on Tuesday night and according to SI.com also “will interview Portland assistant Dean Demopolous.”
SI.com identified Johnson, Demopolous and Casey — but not Corbin, also an ex-Hawk — as “the primary candidates to replace” the fired Mike Woodson.
Philadelphia, meanwhile, reportedly considered but ultimately opted against interviewing Corbin, who in recent offseasons was identified as a candidate for former vacancies in Seattle (now Oklahoma City), Phoenix and Chicago.
The 76ers, according to the Philadelphia Daily News on Wednesday, have “started negotiations” with former NBA head coach and current TNT analyst Doug Collins “in hopes of making him the team’s next head coach.”
Other current vacancies around the league include those with Chicago, New Jersey and the Los Angeles Clippers.
Corbin has not been named as a candidate for any of those three jobs, and the New Jersey post evidently is not a possibility after new Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov — according to the New York Times — said he’s looking for a coach with NBA experience.
Before coming to Utah, Corbin worked as a player development coach for the New York Knicks — but he has no experience as an NBA head coach.
Corbin also previously was mentioned as a candidate for the head coaching vacancy at his former school, DePaul. That job, though, was awarded last month to former Clemson coach Oliver Purnell.
Corbin remains under contract with the Jazz for one more season.
If he can’t land an NBA head coaching this offseason, he has said he’ll happily return for at least one more season — it would be his seventh on Jerry Sloan’s staff — in Utah.

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