Orlando Antigua, an assistant coach at Pittsburgh, is highly likely to be named to the University of Memphis staff within the next several days, according to various sources close to the situation.

Antigua will essentially take the place of Chuck Martin, who left last month to become head coach at Marist. Like Martin, Antigua grew up in The Bronx. He is a native of the Dominican Republic. He’ll join Josh Pastner and John Robic on John Calipari’s revamped bench.

Antigua played at Pittsburgh from 1991-95 and until 2002 was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. Assuming his hiring goes through as expected, he’ll serve mainly in a recruiting role with the Tigers, especially in New York, where Martin had made inroads with some of the top players in the area.

With the hiring of Antigua, Calipari will have pulled in assistants from Pittsburgh and Arizona, a pair of major-conference programs.