The Cleveland Cavaliers have finalized their teaching employees for the upcoming 2024-25 season and named Johnnie Bryant as Affiliate Head Coach and Jordan Ott, Mike Gerrity, DeMarre Carroll, Trevor Hendry, Omar Prepare dinner, Bryan Tibaldi and Nate Reinking as Assistant Coaches on Head Coach Kenny Atkinson’s employees, Cavaliers President of Basketball Operations Koby Altman and Atkinson introduced right now from Cleveland Clinic Courts.
To help the teaching employees, the Cavaliers have employed Alex Sarama as Director of Participant Growth and Patrick Licursi as Advance Scout. DJ Ham has been named Participant Growth/Video Assistant, Andrew Olson as Taking pictures Coach and Austin Peterson as Supervisor of Teaching Analytics. Moreover, the Cavaliers have additionally employed Aaron Robinson and Luke Webb as Video Assistants, in addition to Adrian Culea as Particular Assistant to the Head Coach.
Bryant brings over a decade of NBA expertise to Atkinson’s employees, together with the earlier 4 seasons as affiliate head coach of the New York Knicks. Earlier than becoming a member of New York, Bryant spent eight seasons with the Utah Jazz, serving as an assistant coach for six seasons (2014-2020) and two seasons as a participant growth assistant (2012-2014). Moreover, he ran the Bryant Sports activities Academy for 3 years (2009-2012), which helped develop the abilities of NBA gamers together with quite a few European gamers. Bryant performed faculty basketball on the College of Utah, leaving the college because the twentieth all-time main scorer (1,301 factors) and the chief in three-point subject objective proportion (.440) whereas additionally incomes twin bachelor’s levels in human growth and household research and sports activities administration. Following his faculty profession, the Oakland, CA., native went on to play professionally abroad in Germany.
Ott was most lately an assistant coach for the previous two seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers (2022-2024). Previous to his tenure with the Lakers, Ott served as an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets for six seasons (2016-2022), the place he labored underneath Atkinson on the sidelines for his first 4 years in Brooklyn. Earlier than working as an NBA assistant coach, Ott was the video coordinator for the Atlanta Hawks from 2013 to 2016. He served in the identical capability with the Michigan State males’s basketball program for 5 seasons (2008-2013) underneath Corridor of Fame head coach Tom Izzo. Ott acquired his bachelor’s diploma from Penn State in 2006 and earned his grasp’s diploma from Michigan State in 2008. The McConnellsburg, PA, native additionally served as an assistant coach with the Dominican Republic nationwide staff within the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship in Mexico Metropolis.
Gerrity joins Atkinson’s employees after serving the earlier two seasons (2022-2024) as head coach of the Cleveland Cost, the Cavaliers’ completely owned and operated NBA G League staff. In his first season on the helm, he led the Cost to a 30-20 file, tying for the second-most common season wins in staff historical past, in addition to securing the franchise’s first playoff win because the 2015-16 season. Gerrity additionally served as an assistant coach for the Cavaliers in 2021-22 and spent three seasons because the staff’s Director of Participant Growth/Assistant Coach from 2018 to 2021. His further roles with the group embody two seasons as Director of Participant Growth for the Cost and Participant Growth Assistant with the Cavaliers from 2016 to 2018, and an Assistant Video Coordinator in 2013. Earlier than his teaching profession, Gerrity performed two seasons within the NBA G League for the Dakota Wizards, Erie BayHawks, and Maine Purple Claws. He starred on the College of Southern California in 2009-10 after taking part in collegiate basketball at Pepperdine and UNC Charlotte.
Carroll involves Cleveland after spending the earlier two seasons as an assistant coach with the Lakers (2023-24) and Milwaukee Bucks (2022-23). Previous to becoming a member of the teaching ranks, Carroll performed within the NBA for 11 seasons, together with two seasons underneath Atkinson throughout their time with the Brooklyn Nets. Over his NBA taking part in profession, Carroll appeared in a mixed 578 video games (339 begins) for Houston, San Antonio, Brooklyn, Toronto, Atlanta, Utah, Denver and Memphis with averages of 8.9 factors and 4.2 rebounds in 23.7 minutes. He made no less than 100 three-pointers in 4 of his NBA seasons and was a starter on Atlanta’s 60-win staff in 2014-15. Drafted by the Grizzlies because the twenty seventh general choose within the 2009 NBA Draft, Carroll additionally appeared in 64 profession playoff video games (52 begins), posting averages of 8.9 factors and 4.3 rebounds in 27.4 minutes. He was an All-Large 12 First Workforce choice throughout his collegiate years on the College of Missouri.
Hendry arrives in Cleveland after spending the earlier two seasons (2022-24) as an assistant coach with the Brooklyn Nets and the 4 seasons previous to that (2018-22) as Brooklyn’s head video coordinator. Hendry initially joined the Nets group in 2014, serving in a wide range of basketball operations roles previous to coming into the video room. He then spent one season (2016-17) as video and participant growth assistant for the Lengthy Island Nets within the NBA G League and one season in the identical position for the Brooklyn Nets (2017-18) earlier than turning into head video coordinator for Brooklyn the place he labored underneath Atkinson for elements of 4 seasons. Previous to becoming a member of the Nets group, the Waterford, CT, native earned each a Bachelor of Arts in enterprise and a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from Clark College in Worcester, MA.
Prepare dinner held the position as assistant coach/participant growth with the Cavaliers final season. He initially joined the group in 2022-23 as an assistant coach with the Cost after a profitable 22-year skilled basketball profession that included stints within the NBA and NBA G League, in addition to taking part in professionally in over half a dozen international locations internationally. Prepare dinner has led 5 totally different leagues in assists in a season and has been a part of two FIBA Champions League successful groups (2020, 2021). The Brooklyn, NY native was a McDonalds All-American and First-Workforce Parade All-American at Christ the King Excessive College and starred at St. John’s College earlier than being drafted by the Orlando Magic because the thirty first general choose in 2001.
Tibaldi was most lately the participant growth/video assistant (2021-2024) for the Cavaliers after becoming a member of the group as an assistant coach with the Cost throughout the 2019-20 marketing campaign. Previous to that, he spent two seasons as an assistant at Cleveland State College, two seasons because the Director of Basketball Operations at DePaul (2015-2017), 4 years as a video coordinator and director of operations at Missouri (2011-2015) and two seasons as assistant video coordinator basketball operations assistant with the Chicago Bulls (2009-2011). A 2007 graduate of Michigan State, Tibaldi was a two-year letter winner as a walk-on for the Spartans. Following his taking part in days, Tibaldi was a graduate assistant underneath Tom Izzo from 2007-09, incomes his grasp’s in Kinesiology in 2009.
Reinking enters his second season as Assistant Coach with the Cavaliers. He was beforehand Assistant Coach/G-League Liaison from 2021-2023 and Head Coach for the Cost from 2016-2021 when he held a mixed 107-101 file over that span. Reinking has over 20 years of collegiate, skilled and worldwide expertise as each a participant and coach. He was named the top coach of the Nice Britain Nationwide Workforce in the summertime of 2019, main the staff on a 4-0 run, and persevering with a record-setting seven-game successful streak, to safe a spot in a EuroBasket 2021 qualifying group. Moreover, he coached the staff within the 2022 FIBA EuroBasket Video games. Earlier than starting his teaching profession, Reinking performed for Nice Britain from 2005-12, representing the nation in worldwide tournaments such because the Olympics and European Championships. The Galion, OH, native graduated from Kent State College in 1996 after a four-year taking part in profession with the Golden Flashes and was inducted into the college’s Varsity “Okay” Athletics Corridor of Fame in 2019.
