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- Comment: Possibly notable? It's extremely hard to tell throughout the non-neutral POV and editorializing that is taking place here. This is not currently written like an encyclopedia article. There should be roughly zero quotes in the "Coaching Career" section. Encyclopedia articles shouldn't be saying phrases like "When someone dozed, they’d fall victim to his pranks", "Fast-forward to the subsequent March" or "Galanopoulos’s coaching odyssey has spanned the entire globe". Utopes (talk / cont) 02:16, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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| Washington State Cougars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Assistant Head Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | NCCA Division I | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 11, 1989 Buffalo Grove, Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| High school | Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Indiana University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2015–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As coach: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Hawkes bay Hawks (Assistant Coach) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | Texas Legends (Assistant Coach) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Uganda (Head Coach)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Dallas Mavericks (Assistant Video Coordinator)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2023 | Texas Legends (Head Coach) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Dallas Mavericks (Head Coach NBA Summer League)[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– 2024 | Rip City Remix (Associate Head Coach) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024– 2025 | Washington State Cougars (Assistant Head Coach)[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As head coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Galanopoulos (born 11 March 1989)[6] is an American professional basketball coach who is the assistant head coach of Washington State Cougars [7].He is the former associate head coach of Rip City Remix [8] and head coach of the Texas Legends [9] of the National Basketball Association G league (NBA G League). He is also the head coach of the Uganda men's national basketball team since 2017.[10][11][12][13]
Early Life
editGeorge Galanopoulos was born in Buffalo Grove, Illinois on March 11, 1989,40 minutes north of the Windy City. Growing up, Galanopoulos’s father, Dean, gifted him with a surprise gift of epic proportions - a hoop alongside the family's driveway. His young son hoisted jumpers day and night, especially after Dean added an overhead light, ironically, to allow hooping late into moonless evenings. The swift decline of the driveway posed difficult angles to the rim, giving Galanopoulos an incredible home-court advantage in HORSE contests.
Those early hoop dreams quickly manifested into any Bulls junkie’s fantasy. Through a family friend, Galanopoulos landed a summer internship with Chicago’s player development staff as a sophomore at Indiana. He chased rebounds and played mock defense during a rookie Derrick Rose’s offseason workouts at the fabled Berto Center. “I was pinching myself every single day that I walked into that place,” he says.[14]
Coaching career
editBakerfied Jam (Assistant Coach)
editFollowing graduation, Galanopoulos secured a basketball operations internship with the Bakersfield Jam for the 2011–2012 season, fleeing the Midwest for California.
Hawkes bay Hawks (Assistant head coach)
editGalanopoulos then ventured overseas in 2015 to coach in New Zealand’s Hawkes bay Hawks [15] National Basketball League (New Zealand), returning to the States the following March hungry for another opportunity in the NBA.
Having previously interned under Mike Procopio at legendary trainer Tim Grover’s Attack Athletics in Chicago, Galanopoulos reconnected with his old boss, then a player development coach with the Dallas Mavericks spearheading their expansive internship program. Procopio minted Galanopoulos as one of the Mavs’ 12 player development interns for the ‘15–16 season. Dallas Mavericks retained Galanopoulos throughout the summer, just as the Mavericks hired former LA Defenders- now South Bay Lakers Head coach Bob MacKinnon to lead their own now G-League outfit, the Texas Legends. MacKinnon had battled Galanopoulos's Jam teams throughout the ‘13–14 season, and—remembering the youngster’s passion and Bakersfield’s preparation—hired him as a Legends assistant coach during Las Vegas Summer League.
Uganda National Team (Head coach)
editFast-forward in 2017, Galanopoulos was hired as a Uganda basketball head coach.[17] At AfroBasket, the Uganda men's national basketball team first drew historically dominant Angola, which had dropped Uganda, 98–44, in the previous FIBA Africa Champions Cup. Yet under their new coach, point guard Robinson Opong drained a three-pointer with 51.5 seconds remaining to give Uganda an 84–79 advantage. “Holy shit,” Galanopoulos thought. “We’re going to beat Angola!”
Dallas Mavericks (Assistant video coordinator)
editHe returned home and joined the Mavericks’ video team for the ‘17–18 season. Committed to Dallas Mavericks, as assistant video coordinator [18]
Texas Legends (Head coach)
editGalanopoulos’s was hired by Texas Legends as head coach in 2019 a post he held until 2023.
Dallas Mavericks (Summer league head coach)
editGalanopoulos worked as a head coach for Dallas Mavericks basketball men's team during Summer league 2023[19]
Rip City Remix (Associate head coach)
editIn 2023/2024 season he was hired as associate head coach of Rip City Remix.
Washington State Cougars
editIn 2024 season he was hired as assistant coach of Washington State Cougars as assistant head coach [20]
George Galanapoulous odyssey has spanned the entire globe and all levels of basketball, yet incidentally assuming charge of Uganda’s program may one day prove a unique backdrop to an emerging head coach in the NBA. In interviewing young assistants, teams are persistently searching for candidates with previous leadership experience. “There's gonna come a day when it pays off for him,” Hunt says. “Somebody is going to take a chance on him because he's led a group. George is checking the box.” The Phoenix Suns recently handpicked former Utah Jazz assistant Igor Kokoškov after nearly a decade piloting Georgia (country) and Slovenia’s respective national teams. For now, Galanopoulos remains focused on leading Uganda’s rise to Africa basketball prominence and immersing himself within his players’ culture. “You realize it's so much more than something to put on your resume,” he says. Besides, Uganda winning the African Qualifiers would be etched in indelible history books far grander than any CV.[21]
Achievements
edit- Quarterfinals Sixth place FIBA AfroBasket 2021
References
edit- ^ "Legends Assistant George Galanopoulos Named Coach of Ugandan National Team". TRAVELHOST - The Premier Destination Resource. 6 August 2017.
- ^ "George Galanopoulos, Texas Legends, Head Coach - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74pV0vxxkG8
- ^ Rader, Doyle (July 10, 2022). "Greg St. Jean stepping aside as Mavericks Summer League head coach". Mavs Moneyball.
- ^ https://www.si.com/college/washington-state/men-s-basketball/posts/washington-state-adds-george-galanopoulos-to-men-s-basketball-coaching-staff
- ^ "Texas Legends coach George Galanopoulos celebrated a birthday he won't soon forget". March 30, 2020.
- ^ https://www.si.com/college/washington-state/men-s-basketball/posts/washington-state-adds-george-galanopoulos-to-men-s-basketball-coaching-staff
- ^ https://deepcast.fm/episode/conversation-with-george-galanopoulos-remix-associate-head-coach
- ^ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/13/questions-texas-legends-george-galanopoulos/
- ^ Basketball, Unlimited Potential. "Mental Buckets Recap: George Galanopoulos". Unlimited Potential Basketball.
- ^ "2021-22 Texas Legends minor league basketball Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.
- ^ "Rewind: Early Adversity - With Head Coach George Galanopoulos". 11 May 2020 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "George Galanopoulos | Mavs Summer League 2022". 18 July 2022 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "How George Galanopoulos became Uganda's head coach". 13 June 2018.
- ^ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/basketball-coach-out-to-foster-harmony-at-hawks/6AXT4ZP3RUARCDMKJ2KV54YHMI/
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGs9w4NxXk
- ^ Johnson, Adam (October 3, 2019). "Legends Coach George Galanopoulos Wants To Develop Winning Culture". Medium.
- ^ "Legends Assistant George Galanopoulos Named Coach of Ugandan National Team". TRAVELHOST - The Premier Destination Resource. 6 August 2017.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74pV0vxxkG8
- ^ https://www.si.com/college/washington-state/men-s-basketball/posts/washington-state-adds-george-galanopoulos-to-men-s-basketball-coaching-staff
- ^ "How George Galanopoulos became Uganda's head coach". 13 June 2018.
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