Washington’s men’s basketball staff got a notable boost Wednesday, with Danny Sprinkle adding longtime NBA assistant Charles Klask on the same day the Huskies filled out their roster.
The timing fit the theme of the day in Seattle. Earlier, Washington secured its 15th and final player for the 2026-27 season by landing 6-foot-7 guard Harun Zrno out of the transfer portal from Rutgers. That move gave the Huskies their fifth transfer addition and their fifth international player, joining Serbian forward Nikola Dzepina, Brazilian forward Wini Braga, Croatian forward Boris Tisma and Australian guard Tristan Devers.
Then came the coaching news.
In a release from Huskies Athletics, Washington announced that Sprinkle had hired Klask as an assistant coach. Klask arrives with 25 years of NBA experience and a résumé that stretches across some of the league’s most recognizable coaching circles. He has worked under Jason Kidd, Doc Rivers, Rick Carlisle, Mike Malone and Stan Van Gundy, among others.
His NBA path has taken him through multiple stops and roles. Klask served as video coordinator for the Detroit Pistons from 2000-01, then held the same position with the Orlando Magic from 2002-11. He returned to Detroit as an assistant coach from 2011-13, spent 2013-14 with the Brooklyn Nets as an assistant coach and advance scout, went back to the Pistons for another assistant coaching stint from 2014-18, and then joined the Denver Nuggets from 2018-26 as an assistant under Malone and David Adelman.
Along the way, Klask has worked around and with players such as Nikola Jokic, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce.
For Washington, the hire adds another experienced voice to a roster that now includes nine newcomers. The Huskies will be looking for that mix of new pieces and NBA know-how to help turn around a program that has not reached the NCAA tournament since 2019, the same season it also won the regular season Pac-12 title.
That 2019 appearance came in the second year of Mike Hopkins’ tenure, and Hopkins spent seven seasons in charge of the program. Sprinkle is entering his third season at Washington, a stretch that has also tracked with the school’s move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten. He guided the Huskies to a 13-18 record in his first season and a 16-17 finish last year.
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