Lawrence Frank

Lawrence Frank

Lawrence Frank (born August 23, 1970 in New York City ) is an American basketball coach . On January 26th, 2004 he succeeded Byron Scott as head coach of the New Jersey Nets and was at that time the youngest coach of the US professional league NBA .

The passionate but only moderately talented basketball player Frank was not offered a university sports scholarship after high school . So he decided to accept a team manager scholarship from Indiana University . There Frank learned the subtleties of basketball for four years (1988-1992) under coach Bobby Knight . Frank then got an assistant coaching position at Marquette University , where he learned from coach Kevin O'Neill . When O'Neill moved to the University of Tennessee , Frank followed him.

With the Vancouver Grizzlies in the NBA Frank got a job as a scout under coach Brian Hill . Three years later, in 2000, he successfully applied for an assistant coach position with the New Jersey Nets . In 2004 he took over for the sacked Byron Scott and started his coaching career with 13 wins in a row - a record for a professional coach in the four major American sports basketball, ice hockey , American football and baseball .

For the 2010/2011 season, Frank was signed by the Boston Celtics . There he is supposed to take care of the defense of the Celtics as an assistant trainer. From August 2011 to April 2013, Lawrence Frank coached the Detroit Pistons .

Frank lives in Englewood , New Jersey with his wife Susan .

literature

• André Voigt: “Lawrence Frank. I love this game ", in: Five 7, 2004, p. 21.