Triano returns as Canada’s men’s basketball coach
Posted August 23, 2012 1:49 pm.
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TORONTO (NEWS113) – Jay Triano is back as coach of Canada’s men’s basketball team. The former SFU star was also was the team’s head coach from 1998 to 2004, leading the team to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when they finished seventh. It was the last time Canada made the Olympics in men’s basketball.
Victoria’s Steve Nash, who joined the LA Lakers this summer will again serve as Canada’s general manager. Triano has hinted that he would like Nash to also play for the national team at Rio 2016.
“If we look at Rio right now, we’re talking about 28 years when only 12 Canadian men’s basketball players have played in an Olympic Games, and we want to change that, ” said Triano at a morning news conference in Toronto.
Triano, 53 worked with the Toronto Raptors assistant in recent years, joining the NBA team in 2002 as an assistant, where he was the first Canadian-born and Canadian-trained coach in the NBA. Triano was named Raptors head coach during the 2008-09 season.
Triano’s assistants will be Greg Francis, Kelvin Sampson and Dave Smart.
