The Portland Fire have officially announced the hiring of the first head coach in franchise history. The WNBA expansion team accidentally leaked the name two days earlier , but now it is official that Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Alex Sarama will be the first coach to take the reins of the Fire.

“The Portland Fire have hired Alex Sarama, an assistant with the Cleveland Cavaliers, as the WNBA expansion franchise's inaugural head coach, the team and Sarama told ESPN on Friday,” Ramona Shelburne reported.

Sarama is 30 years old and hails from Guilford, UK. In addition to being an assistant coach for the Cavs, he also held the title Head of Player Development.

Seemingly, Sarama's biggest selling point is his ability to implement a CLA (Constraints-Led Approach) to training, which

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