Career
A native of Tallulah, Louisiana, Hunt earned his bachelor"s degree in business administration and a master"s degree in education from Baylor University where he spent four years on the basketball team He was a four-year letterman and a three-year starter for the Bears from 1987-1991 and helped lead his team to both the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Institute of Technology tournaments. Following his graduation, Hunt played professional basketball in the Caribbean and Mexico.
Hunt began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Temple High School (Texas) before moving to the college ranks where he was the lead assistant coach at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.
On 1999 he signed with the Houston Rockets, where he spent five years, serving his first two years as a video coordinator/scout and his second two as an assistant coach, before spending his final year as the team"s college and international scout. After this, he spent a year as an assistant for the Los Angeles Lakers and then five years as an assistant in the Cleveland Cavaliers.
There he helped to lead the Cavaliers to one of the most successful stretches in franchise history. Cleveland also enjoyed great postseason success during Hunt"s tenure with the team, reaching the 2007 National Basketball Association Finals, the 2009 Eastern Conference Finals and four consecutive appearances in the Eastern Conference Semifinals from 2007-2010.
On 2010, after finishing his contract with Cleveland, he signed with the Denver Nuggets, spending the next few years as an assistant coach.
He was appointed the interim head coach of the Nuggets after Brian Shaw was fired on March 3, 2015. On March 3, he made his coaching debut against the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire, winning 106–95. On June 30, 2015 he joined the Dallas Mavericks to become an assistant coach.