In a new step forward in his brilliant career, the Spanish basketball coach Jordi Fernandez will be the new Canada men’s national basketball team and will have its first international appearance at the world 2023 which will be held in Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines between August 25 and September 10, and its great staging at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The Canadian federation has made official in the last few hours the arrival of the 40-year-old coach from Badalona, who has been the coach’s main assistant since this season Mike Brown in the Sacramento Kingsone of the revelation teams of the season that led to Golden State Warriors until the seventh game in the first round of the ‘playoffs’.
Fernández will replace Nick Nursenew technician of the Philadelphia 76erswho has decided to step aside in the position he held since 2019 to focus on his career in the NBA, in which the champion title stands out with Toronto Raptors in the 2018-19 season with Marc Gasol y Serge Ibaka in the template.
Precisely the Spanish coach was one of the candidates to take over the management of the Raptors after the dismissal of Nick Nurse in April of this year and is one of the league’s young coaches best positioned to become head coach in the NBA. This season his name was among those who managed to assume the bench of the Phoenix Suns and also of the Utah Jazz.
FIBA experience
At the FIBA basketball levelJordi Fernández was already present at the Eurobasket 2017 in Istanbul as assistant to Sergio Scariolo in the Spanish team, which got a bronze, and had also directed some of the lower categories of the Spanish team. He also worked as second of Mike Brown in the tokyo olympics con Nigeria, team that surprised with a victory against the USA in one of the preparation matches for the Olympic event in Las Vegas.
Canada will compete in the initial phase of the world at the headquarters of Jakarta, Indonesia), integrated into group H along with France, Latvia and Lebanon. The first two classified will meet the first two in Group G, which includes Spain, Brazil, the Ivory Coast and Iran, which could force Fernández to play the pass to the quarterfinals with the selection of scario
In the Canadian team, which has yet to give the official list for the World Cup, he could direct some of the NBA stars such as Jamal Murray, one of the champion’s own names Denver Nuggets, Shai Gilgeous -Alexander, of the Oklahoma City Thunder, or Dillon Brooksde los Memphis Grizzlies.
Long way
With a long experience in American basketball, since his arrival in the league more than a decade ago, Fernández He has been gaining credibility for his knowledge of the game and his ability to work. He started his journey in Cleveland Cavaliers by the hand of Mike Brown in 2009, to work on the individual improvement of the players, in the initial period with LeBron James. In this franchise he made the leap to head coach of the Canton Chargein 2013, the subsidiary team of the Development League.
The opportunity came to him in 2016 in the Denver Nuggetsthe defending champions, as assistant coach Mike Malonewhere it coincided with Nikola Jokic and with the man from Madrid Juancho Hernangómez. And after six seasons in the franchise, Fernández accepted last summer the offer of Brown to enlist in the rebuilding of the Sacramento Kings.
2023-06-28 11:26:35
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