According to reports, Alabama has filled the available coaching position on their 2025-26 roster, hiring a name from the NBA.

Chris Fleming has spent the past decade working as an NBA assistant, most recently with the Portland Trailblazers.

Longtime NBA assistant Chris Fleming will replace Ryan Pannone on Oats' staff with the Crimson Tide. Nate Oats has rounded ...

According to reports, the Alabama Crimson Tide have now filled the open spot on the program's 2025-26 basketball coaching staff, hiring Chris Fleming as an assistant coach. The announcement was ...

Chris Fleming served as an assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets (2015-16) Brooklyn Nets (2016-19), Chicago Bulls (2019-24) ...

Fleming takes over the position vacated by Pannone, who served as an Alabama assistant from 2023 to 2025. Following Alabama's ...

Watch the above video as BamaCentral staff writer Hunter De Siver discusses Alabama's basketball's new hiring of Chris Fleming. Alabama men's basketball head coach Nate Oats and company hired ...

Alabama men’s basketball has hired Chris Fleming as its third assistant coach, UA’s NIL collective Yea Alabama announced Wednesday. Fleming has spent the past decade as an NBA assistant ...