James Gist is heading to the sixth generation of the EuroLeague Head Coaches Board Coaches Academy to continue learning en route to becoming a professional head coach.

“I am looking forward to joining the Euroleague Basketball Coaches Academy. I think it is going to be a great opportunity to pick some of the greatest minds to ever coach the game, obviously, on the international level,” he mentioned on an EHCB video on Friday.

“Since I retired, my transition has been to get into coaching. So, that is my goal, one day to be a head coach. Hopefully, raising a trophy and teaching my team and my players how to win, as I did as a player,” he added.

Coming out of Maryland in 2008 and after being drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA, Gist spent his entire career overseas, including 2

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