Andrew Gaze
Gaze at a Melbourne Tigers home game in 2011
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| Sydney Kings | |
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| Position | Head coach |
| League | NBL |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
24 July 1965 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Listed height | 201 cm (6 ft 7 in) |
| Listed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Albert Park College (Melbourne, Victoria) |
| College | Seton Hall (1988–1989) |
| NBA draft | 1989 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 1984–2005 |
| Position | Shooting guard |
| Number | 10 |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 1984–2005 | Melbourne Tigers |
| 1991–1992 | Udine |
| 1994 | Washington Bullets |
| 1995 | Apollon Patras |
| 1999 | San Antonio Spurs |
| As coach: | |
| 2016 | Melbourne Tigers |
| 2016–present | Sydney Kings |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| FIBA Hall of Fame as player | |
Andrew Barry Casson Gaze, AM (born 24 July 1965) is an Australian former professional basketball player and current head coach of the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League (NBL). He has been described as the greatest player Australia has ever produced, and played every season for the Melbourne Tigers between 1985 and 2005 and won the league's MVP award on seven occasions. He also guided the Tigers to two NBL championships in 1993 and 1997, and was named an All-NBL first teamer every year between 1986 and 2000, a feat matched by no other player in NBL history.
Gaze led the Australian national team, the Boomers, to five Olympic Games – including as the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the Australian Team Captain. He was inducted into the Basketball Australia Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2005 after becoming a member of the Order of Australia in 2002. In 2013, he joined his father, Lindsay, in the FIBA Hall of Fame to become just the third Australian inductee. Two Australian basketball awards have been named in Gaze's honour: the NBL MVP award is the Andrew Gaze Trophy, and the Australian International Player of the Year award is the Gaze Medal.
Gaze was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Lindsay and Margaret Gaze, and has an older sister, Janet. Gaze is also the nephew of former Australian Opals coach Tony Gaze and the cousin of Mark Gaze, who played 182 games in the NBL from 1983–1991 and represented Australia at the 1982 FIBA World Championship. He is also the second cousin of Canberra Capitals guard Kate Gaze, the daughter of Mark Gaze and former WNBL player Michelle O'Connor.
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