Jim Kelly (basketball coach)

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Jim Kelly is an American basketball coach .

Life

The Southampton in the State of New Jersey native Kelly joined in January 1985 as coach at German Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen at. He took over the team management from Otto Reintjes , who stepped in after the Rhinelander parted ways with Chris Lee during the season . Kelly, to whom the newspaper Die Welt ascribed a “calm and prudent way of working”, led Leverkusen to win the German championship, the triumph was clear at the end of March 1985, the final opponent was DTV Charlottenburg . In 1986 they won the German championship and the DBB cup . In 1987 and 1988 Leverkusen became German runners-up under Kelly's leadership. In his last season in Leverkusen (1988/89) Dirk Bauermann was a "co" member of Kelly's coaching staff. Bauermann wrote in his 2012 book that Kelly was "another good teacher for me" who gave him a lot of responsibility and especially the direction of defense work. Even before the defeat in the final series of the German championship against Steiner Bayreuth , it was clear that Kelly would leave Leverkusen at the end of the 1988/89 season. In the 1991/92 season he coached the Bundesliga club Brandt Hagen . Kelly, whose wife is from the Philippines , was in the 1990s a consultant for teams in the Philippine League PBA . In the run-up to the 2000/01 season, he referred John Best , who had previously played in the Philippines, to Bayer Leverkusen.

From 1994 Kelly worked for the NBA team Toronto Raptors . He worked there in a leading position in the field of player screening and was responsible for the trial training events for possible new signings, including in the run-up to the draft procedure. In June 2013 there was a separation between Kelly and the Toronto team. From the 2013/14 season Kelly worked in the field of player sighting for the Dallas Mavericks (also NBA).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Curt Morrell: Leverkusen ended the drought. In: The world. March 29, 1985. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Goal: Top team in Europe. In: The world. April 25, 1986, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ MICHAEL ZEIHEN: Curious, turbulent, dramatic and crazy. June 28, 2005, accessed on May 21, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Achievements & History | BAYER GIANTS Leverkusen. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dirk Bauermann: Mission Success: My vision, my plan, my path . Herbig, FA, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7766-2679-7 .
  6. ↑ Basketball archive . In: basketball archive . ( wixsite.com [accessed July 26, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Joaquin M. Henson: Kelly scouts NBA prospects. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Mavs scout Jim Kelly on Parks' NBA dream: 'He got to go a few more steps to get there'. August 10, 2016, accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Johannes Wermbter: Stagnation is a step backwards . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 33 .
  10. ^ Raptors Announce Front Office Promotions. Retrieved May 21, 2020 (English).
  11. ^ New Raptors GM Masai Ujiri begins cleaning house. June 2, 2013, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jim Kelly, Dallas Mavericks, Scout - RealGM. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kelly, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century