David Michael Blatt ( he, דוד מיכאל בלאט; born May 22, 1959), is an

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professional

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executive. He is also a former coach and player. Blatt played

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from 1977 to 1981 and played in the

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for the U.S. national team that won a gold medal in

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. He then played professional basketball in Israel for nine of the next twelve years, before an injury ended his playing career, and he began coaching full-time. He is one of the most successful Israeli-American coaches in European basketball history. As a coach, Blatt has been the

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four times (1996, 2002, 2011, and 2014), the

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(2005), and the EuroLeague Coach of the Year (2014). Blatt took over as Cleveland's head coach, and led the team to the

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in his first season. He guided them to the top of their conference the next year, but was fired mid-season, and subsequently returned to coaching in Europe.

Biography

Blatt was born in Boston, grew up in

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, and is

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. As a boy, he went to a Reform Temple, and until his Bar Mitzvah he attended

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twice a week. He says that in Israel he became "much more Jewish and much more

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." In his sophomore year at

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, a coach for an Israeli

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team recruited him to play in Israel for the summer. The summer at

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turned out to be a life-changing experience. Blatt graduated from Princeton in 1981 with a B.A. in English literature, completing his senior thesis on

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, author of ''

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''. In 1981 he immigrated to Israel, and served in the

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on the Schneller military base. In 1991 Blatt married Kinneret, from

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, Israel; she had played on an Israeli professional basketball team that he coached. They have four children: twin daughters Shani and Adi (who have served in the Israeli army), daughter Ela (his youngest child), and son

Tamir Blatt Tamir Blatt ( he, תמיר בלאט; born May 4, 1997) is an Israeli professional basketball player for Alba Berlin of the German Basketball Bundesliga. He is the son of former basketball player and coach David Blatt. In 2020-21 he led the Israel ...

(born in 1997; in 2014 he was the starting point guard on the Israeli junior national basketball team, and has played for Hapoel Tel Aviv, Hapoel Holon and Hapoel Jerusalem).

Playing career

Blatt played basketball at Framingham South High School, where he was also class president. A

, Blatt played

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from 1977 to 1981 under coach

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with the

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, where he was team captain. He also participated in the

as part of the USA national team that won a gold medal in the

1981 Maccabiah Games The 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 35 nations. The Opening Ceremony was held on July 7, 1981, before a crowd of 53,000 and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Ramat Gan Stadium, with 3,500 Jewish athletes parading ...

. After competing in the Maccabiah, Blatt began to play professional basketball in Israel's

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, and played 9 of the next 12 years in Israel before an injury ended his playing career and he started coaching full-time.

Coaching career

After retiring from basketball as a player, Blatt became assistant manager for

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, coaching them for the 1993–94 season. In the middle of the season, the head coach was fired and Blatt took his place. The following year, he became

Pini Gershon Pinhas "Pini" Gershon ( he, פנחס "פיני" גרשון, born 13 November 1951), is an Israeli former professional basketball player and coach. He won three top-level European-wide club championships as the head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He wo ...

's assistant for the 1994–95 season. The next year, he won the title of Israeli

for 1996. In 1997, he continued coaching Hapoel Galil Elyon, while also becoming the assistant coach of the Israeli national team. For six years, he coached

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, winning the

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. Blatt returned to coach Galil Elyon, and remained assistant manager of the Israeli National Team for the next two years (1997–99). During his time in Galil Elyon Blatt notoriously assisted Pini Gershon, then head coach of

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, by relaying directions laid out during live broadcasts on national television of time outs of their rivals in the Israeli league finals series games.

European leagues and national head coach

For the 1999–2000 season, he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, and once again served as assistant manager to Pini Gershon. During that season, his team took part in the Israeli League and Israeli Cup (winning both), and also in the EuroLeague, where Maccabi finished in 2nd place. In the years between 2000 and 2004, he continued as assistant coach under Pini Gershon and actively recruited foreign players such as Anthony Parker (in 2000) and

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to the team. During those four years, Maccabi won one EuroLeague title, reached the

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(2001–02 season), and reached the final stage of the

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. Maccabi won the SuproLeague title in 2001 in Paris. Blatt was still working as assistant coach of the Israeli National Team in 2002, when he won the title of Israeli "

" for the second time, the year he was appointed head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Despite two years as head coach with all possible domestic titles and one EuroLeague Final Four appearance, for the 2003–04 season, he agreed to be demoted to assistant coach once again when Pini Gershon came back to the head coach position. Together they led one of the best teams in Maccabi Tel Aviv history, and the history of European basketball, to another EuroLeague title with a 44-point win in the final, as well as to the Israeli Championship and the Israeli Cup. In 2004, he moved to Russia and signed on as head coach with Dynamo Saint Petersburg. During that year, he won the

FIBA EuroCup FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...

championship with Dynamo and also the title of "Coach of the Year in Russia" (2004–05 season). For the 2005–06 season, he signed on as head coach of the Israeli national team, but his appointment fell through due to the lack of a formal coaching certificate. He left Israel to become head coach of Benetton Treviso of the

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, and subsequently led them to the Italian Championship with a 3–1 victory in the final series of the Italian playoffs. In the same year, he was also appointed the head coach of the

. At the beginning of the 2007–08 season, Blatt was appointed as a head coach of the Istanbul-based

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team Efes Pilsen. However, on April 6, 2008, he parted ways with the team, due to poor results over the season. Blatt also coached the Russian national basketball team, with which he won the

in a final game against the reigning world champions and home team of

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, by a score of 60–59. In 2008, with

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announcing that he would leave

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, Blatt was considered to be the favorite to replace him, but Messina eventually stayed on as CSKA's coach and Blatt agreed to the offer to become the head coach of

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instead. Although under contract for two seasons, he parted ways with the team, after requesting that from the team in order to pursue his career elsewhere. In early 2010, Blatt served a stint as the head coach of the Greek League club

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, before moving on to coach

once again. Blatt led the Russian national team to a bronze medal during the

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In 2014, Blatt led Maccabi Tel Aviv to one of the greatest comebacks against CSKA Moscow in the EuroLeague semifinal game, proceeding to win the championship after beating

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in overtime. In June, after his contract ended, Blatt officially parted ways with the club in order to seek an

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coaching position. Over six seasons as Maccabi head coach, he compiled a 179–21 (.895) record in the Israeli League, and a record of 90–52 (.634) in the EuroLeague, for an overall record of 269–73 combined (.787). In 9 seasons, his career coaching record in the EuroLeague with Maccabi, Treviso, and Efes was 121–81 (.599).

NBA

On June 20, 2014, Blatt was hired as head coach of the

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. Following his signing with the Cavaliers, Blatt was named the EuroLeague

. On April 1, 2015, Blatt earned his first Eastern Conference Coach of the Month award. The Cavaliers led the Eastern Conference in March in points-per-game (107.0), points-per-game differential (9.1), field goal percentage (.469), three-point field goal percentage (.399) and three-pointers made per game (12.3). The Cavaliers were also 5–0 at home and tied for the most road wins in the East at 6–4. The month also saw the Cavaliers extend their winning streak at Quicken Loans Arena to 16 games (January 19 – March 29), which tied for the third-longest home streak in franchise history. Over the season, the Cavaliers led the Central Division with a 53–29 record, and Blatt's lifetime .639 winning percentage after the 2014–15 season was the best of any Cavaliers coach in team history. During the Eastern Conference Semifinals, Blatt attempted to call a timeout when the Cavs did not have any left. This would have given the Cavaliers a technical foul, but the referees did not see the attempted timeout and the Cavaliers won the game, tying the series 2–2, and eventually winning the series. In Blatt's first season, the Cavaliers won the Eastern Conference title, their first since

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. While other rookie head coaches have reached the NBA Finals, Blatt and rival coach

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of the

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were the first pair of rookie NBA coaches to face each other in the

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since the first year of the NBA's existence, in 1947. The Cavaliers eventually lost 4–2 to the Warriors in the

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. On January 22, 2016, the Cavaliers fired Blatt. Although the team held the best record in their conference (30–11), general manager David Griffin cited "a lack of fit with our personnel and our vision" as the reason for the decision. Blatt was replaced by his lead assistant

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, who guided the Cavaliers to their first NBA championship that season. Even though Blatt only coached the first half of the championship season, the Cavaliers' officials sent him a 2016 NBA Championship ring. At first he declined their offer but later changed his mind and accepted it.

Return to Europe

On June 1, 2016, Blatt was named the new head coach for Darüşşafaka of the

and the EuroLeague. In his first season with Darüşşafaka, Blatt coached the team to the EuroLeague quarterfinals, where they eventually lost 1–3 to

. In the Turkish Super League, Darüşşafaka was eliminated in the semifinals by Fenerbahçe. In his second season with Darüşşafaka, Blatt won the 2018 EuroCup Championship, becoming only the second coach in history (after

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) who won Euroleague (with Maccabi in 2014), EuroBasket (with Russia in 2007), EuroCup and Olympic medals (bronze with Russia in 2012). On June 27, 2018, Blatt was officially named the head coach for

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of the

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and the EuroLeague, signing a two-year contract. On October 6, 2019, Blatt parted ways with Olympiacos after one season, announcing he had been diagnosed with PPMS and was currently in treatment for the degenerative condition, which will affect him the rest of his life.

Executive career

On December 18, 2019, Blatt announced his retirement from coaching after the

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hired him as a consultant. Blatt's contract was not renewed after the 19–20 season. On May 28, 2020, through the Israeli company True Player Group (50% of the shares are owned by the Blatt family), he became co-owner of Czech basketball club

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Coaching record

EuroLeague

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NBA

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Awards and honors

: *

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: *

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: * 2014 EuroLeague champion * 2014 EuroLeague Coach of the Year * 2014

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (russian: Орден Дружбы, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds a ...

Award winner * 2018 EuroCup champion * 2020

Bonei Zion Prize The Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Prize ( he, פרס בוני ציון; Translation: ''Builders of Zion Prize'') is awarded annually by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization to formally recognize the achievements of outstanding Anglo immigrants and their con ...

in the field of Culture, Art & Sports.

References

External links

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