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Tim Lewis (basketball)

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Position
  
Assistant coach

2008
  
New York Strikeforce

League
  
NBA Development League

2009–2011
  
Essex Pirates


Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Tim Lewis

Coaching career
  
1990s–present

Role
  
Basketball Coach

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Born
  
26 October 1967 (age 56) (
1967-10-26
)

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Timothy Charles Lewis (born 26 October 1967) is a British basketball coach who was formerly the head coach for the Thailand men's national basketball team. He has previously served as an assistant coach for the Raptors905 and the Bakersfield Jam.

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Early career

Lewis began coaching in 1990s before serving as Director of Coaching for the Sevenoaks Suns between 2004 and 2007. In 2008, he was head coach of the New York Strikeforce. He then spent two years coaching the now-defunct Essex Pirates before spending the 2011–12 season as the Director of Basketball at the Sheffield Sharks.

Great Britain national teams

Between 2006 and 2012, Lewis served as the head coach of the Great Britain U20 national team and as an assistant with the Great Britain senior national team.

Return to professional basketball

In 2012–13, he was head coach of Weissenhorn Youngstars, and in 2013–14, he was head coach of the Hitachi Sunrockers. In June 2014, he was appointed an assistant coach for the Panama national basketball team.

Lewis spent the 2014–15 season as the lead assistant coach for the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League.

On July 28, 2015, Lewis was named an assistant coach for Raptors 905.

Thailand national team

On 2016, Lewis was hired as the new Thailand men's national basketball team coach. His first experience as a head coach in international play was in the 2016 SEABA Cup, the Southeast Asian qualifying tournament for the 2016 FIBA Asia Challenge. On July 2017, Lewis was fired by the Basketball Association of Thailand as the country's national team head coach.

Philippine national team

Lewis in 2017 worked with the rest of the staff of the Philippines men's national basketball team that will play at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games as a consultant.

References

Tim Lewis (basketball) Wikipedia