Sam Cassell is leaving the Washington Wizards after five seasons to take an assistant coaching position with the Los Angeles Clippers, people with knowledge of the situation confirmed Saturday.
Cassell joined the Wizards as a member of Flip Saunders’s staff in 2009, one year after winning his third championship in Boston with Doc Rivers, the current president and coach of the Clippers.
A reunion with Rivers has been rumored for several weeks, with the Clippers losing assistants Tyronn Lue (to Cleveland) and Alvin Gentry (to Golden State) this offseason.