Lindsay Gaze
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 August 1936 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Listed weight | 168 lb (76 kg) |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 1960–1968 |
| Position | Guard |
| Coaching career | 1983–2005 |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1972–1984, 1994 | Australian Boomers |
| 1984–2005 | Melbourne Tigers |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Basketball Hall of Fame as coach | |
| FIBA Hall of Fame as coach | |
Lindsay John Casson Gaze (born 16 August 1936 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian basketball player and coach. He played for Australia in three Olympics qualification series between 1960 and 1968 and coached the Australian basketball team at four Olympics between 1972 and 1984. Gaze coached the Melbourne Tigers for 35 years, including 22 years in the National Basketball League (NBL), winning two championships in 1993 and 1997. He was the coach of the year in 1989, 1997 and 1999 and is second in the all-time number of coaching wins in that league. Lindsay Gaze is a member of the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach and an associate member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He has been announced as an inductee to both the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.
Gaze is the son of Albert J. Gaze and Avis M. Gaze. He has two older brothers, Barry and Tony, who is a former coach of the Australian women's basketball team, the Opals. He married Margaret in 1962 with the couple having a daughter Janet Gaze-Daniels (born 8 July 1964) who works in recreation management, and a son, Australian basketball legend Andrew Gaze (born 24 July 1965). As the GM of the Victorian Basketball Association (until his retirement), the Gaze family lived in the official GM's residence which was attached to the back of the Albert Park Basketball Stadium. Gaze's nephew Mark (Tony's son) played for Australia under Lindsay's coaching at the 1982 FIBA World Championship and went on to play 182 NBL games from 1983-1991. He is also the great-uncle of Mark Gaze's daughter Kate Gaze who plays for the Canberra Capitals in Australia's Women's National Basketball League.
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