Mike Fratello
Fratello in 2015
|
|
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 24, 1947 North Haledon, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Hackensack (Hackensack, New Jersey) |
| College | Montclair State |
| Coaching career | 1970–2014 |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1970–1972 | Rhode Island (assistant) |
| 1972–1975 | James Madison (assistant) |
| 1975–1978 | Villanova (assistant) |
| 1978–1982 | Atlanta Hawks (assistant) |
| 1982–1983 | New York Knicks (assistant) |
| 1983–1990 | Atlanta Hawks |
| 1993–1999 | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 2004–2006 | Memphis Grizzlies |
| 2011–2014 | Ukraine |
| Career highlights and awards | |
Michael Robert "Mike" Fratello (born February 24, 1947) is an American sports broadcaster and a professional basketball coach. Nicknamed "The Czar", Fratello is presently the analyst for Brooklyn Nets broadcasts on the YES Network and for nationally televised games on TNT. He previously coached the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA, served as NBC's lead analyst, and was also the head coach of the Ukraine national basketball team.
Fratello is among the winningest head coaches in NBA history, ranking respectively 18th and 19th in all-time regular season wins (667) and games coached (1,215).
Fratello was born in Hackensack, New Jersey to his parents, Vincent and Marie. He graduated from Hackensack High School, where he was captain of the basketball, baseball, football and field hockey teams. He was named to the Bergen "All County" Football team as a center in his senior year. He then went on to Montclair State College in Montclair, New Jersey to play football. Upon graduation he returned to Hackensack H.S. as an assistant for both the basketball and football teams. Fratello then went on to the University of Rhode Island as a graduate assistant assigned to head coach Tom Carmody, also coaching the U.R.I. freshman basketball team. He had been a college basketball assistant at James Madison University under Lou Campanelli and served as an assistant for Rollie Massimino at Villanova before going to the NBA as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks during Hubie Brown's tenure. He is also of Italian descent.
...
Wikipedia