Kevin Yurkus is an American professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

coach who was most recently head coach of

Saigon Heat The Saigon Heat is a Vietnamese professional basketball team based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since the 2014 season, the Heat's home games are played at the CIS Arena on the campus of the Canadian International School in District 7. Saig ...

and the Vietnam national basketball team.

Coaching career

Club coaching career

From 2016–2017, he coached the Nakhon Pathom Mad Goats in

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. After that, he came to

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

to coach Cantho Catfish from 2017–2019.

National team coaching career

From 2019 to 2022, Yurkus was the head coach of the senior

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.HLV Kevin Yurkus "bật mí" về danh sách đội tuyển bóng rổ Việt Nam tham dự SEA Games 30
Huy Pham (Kenh14.vt), 9 September 2019. Accessed 7 February 2020.

References

External links

Asia-basket.com profile

Videos

HLV xuất sắc nhất VBA 2017: HLV Kevin Yurkus của Cantho Catfish
– Youtube.com video Living people American men's basketball coaches American expatriate basketball people in Vietnam Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-basketball-coach-stub