The Canadian team led by the Spanish Jordi Fernández made a statement by sweeping their opening match against Vincent Collet’s France 96-65 guided by a splendid Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
The Canadians have reached the 2023 World Cup with possibly the best team in their history, and that in the end the Nuggets star Jamal Murray has not been able to be present.
Fernández, who this summer was a candidate for the Raptors and Bucks benches, and a finalist for the Suns, has taken charge of Canada after replacing his teammate Nick Nurse, who next year will be the new coach of the Sixers of Joel Embiid.
“This is a great challenge and you have to get results right away,” Jordi Fernández acknowledged to the outlet. ESPN. “It’s the best experience I can have right now,” she added.
Fernández, 40 years old, has extensive experience as a coach after passing through the benches in Sacramento, Denver and Cleveland. In addition to being the head coach of the Canton Charge of the G League.
He has always been a great support for his “bosses” Mike Brown and previously for Michael Malone, and as Malone himself has recognized, one day he will have the opportunity to lead an NBA bench.
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“He’s going to be the head coach of the NBA,” Michael Malone said. “He is a person who knows this game and has a great ability to communicate as well as build relationships with his players,” he explained.
Nor does he escape the fact that he has experience in international tournaments, either with Spain in the Under-19 team or as an assistant to the aforementioned Brown with Nigeria at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
“A lot of successful coaches have worked in the minor leagues and abroad, and they’ve used all that time as a proving ground, and Jordi has done all of that,” T-Wolves coach Chris Finch said.
Jordi Fernández’s history with the NBA is quite curious, since in 2009 he decided to completely abandon his career as a businessman to sign a low-paid contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Born and raised on the outskirts of Barcelona, he studied at the University of Amsterdam and left his studies in sports psychology and his company to cross the pond where in 2006 he began training players at the IMPACT Basketball academy.
«My friends and my associates told me: are you crazy? He was 26 years old and spoke pretty bad English. But I decided that I didn’t want what I was doing for the rest of my life,” Fernández admitted.
After passing through the IMPACT, he received the call from Brown to join the technical staff of the Cavaliers, as well as his time with the Canton Charge, Denver Nuggets and again meeting with Brown in Sacramento where they have returned to the playoffs after thirteen years. in the dry dock.
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2023-08-27 10:30:00
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