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Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behavior of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as well as overall physical conditioning. Coaches also have the responsibility to improve their team by ...
National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year: LOCA: John Wooden Legends of Coaching Award: HIA: Henry Iba Award: UPI: United Press International College Basketball Coach of the Year: AP: Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year: USBWA: United States Basketball Writers Association District V Coach of the Year B1G ...
Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) online. APPLIN, ALBERT GAMMON, II."FROM MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY TO THE MARKET PLACE: THE HISTORY OF MEN'S AND BOY'S BASKETBALL IN THE UNITED STATES, 1891-1957" (PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1982. 8210291).
Grant McCasland (born October 14, 1976) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech University.McCasland previously coached at North Texas [1] from 2017 to 2023, where he guided the Mean Green to two postseason tournament championships: the 2018 College Basketball Invitational and 2023 National Invitation Tournament.
He coached the Celtics in the 1978–79 season before relinquishing his coaching duty to focus on his playing career. [15] Richie Guerin had coached 372 games as a player-coach, the most among the other player-coaches. He was the player-coach of the St. Louis / Atlanta Hawks for five seasons, from 1964 to 1967 and from 1968 to 1970.
Daniel Hugh Nee (born June 18, 1945) is an American basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Ohio University from 1980 to 1986, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1986 to 2000, Robert Morris University in 2000–01, Duquesne University from 2001 to 2006, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy from 2010 to 2014, compiling a career college basketball ...
Kerr became the first person in NBA history to be a part of 70-win teams as a player and head coach and was named 2015–16 NBA Coach of the Year. [76] Kerr led the Warriors to the 2016 NBA Finals , where they would again face the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the Warriors lost in seven games despite a 3–1 lead.
James Naismith (NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.