BYU basketball provides former NBA assistant Tim Fanning to teaching employees

PROVO — Kevin Younger continues to construct his teaching employees at BYU basketball with a assorted group.

The Cougars have added former NBA and G League coach Tim Fanning as an assistant coach in this system, the college introduced Tuesday.

Fanning involves BYU after most not too long ago coaching in Overtime Elite since 2021 and joins a employees that features former Stanford assistant Brandon Dunson, former Utah assistant Chris Burgess, and Will Voigt, most not too long ago head coach of the Austin Spurs within the NBA G League.

“I am excited to welcome Tim to BYU,” Younger stated in a press release. “He comes with very distinctive teaching experiences after teaching within the NBA G-League, Euroleague and being a head coach at totally different ranges. Tim has traveled the world studying totally different philosophies and gained a powerful community alongside the best way. He is a really clever coach with a powerful background in participant growth. Our whole program will profit from Tim’s experience.”

Previous to his time on the pre-professional prep basketball circuit the place he coached gamers like projected lottery choose Alex Sarr and Amen Thompson, the No. 4 choose within the 2023 NBA draft, Fanning was an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks from 2017-18. He additionally frolicked abroad as an assistant at Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel starting in 2016.

With Maccabi, Fanning was a part of a employees that gained 4 consecutive Israeli league titles, together with two whereas teaching former BYU standout Elijah Bryant.

He took his first head teaching job by 30 years outdated with the Nelson giants of New Zealand’s Nationwide Basketball League previous to departing for the Israeli powers.

In 2013, Fanning first acquired a job as an assistant coach and video coordinator for the Delaware 87ers, the place he met Younger. The 2 struck up a friendship, even because the now-BYU head coach rose to turn into the highest-paid assistant within the NBA with the Phoenix Suns and Fanning’s profession took him abroad and to the very best degree of prep basketball in the USA.

A local of Oakland, California, and a multi linguist, Fanning spends 30-45 minutes each morning learning totally different languages, he stated in an interview with Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball 5 years in the past. He additionally spoke of his developmental background in basketball in the identical team-produced video.

“For me, essentially the most magical second for me is when the group or the gamers execute one thing that you’ve got been engaged on with them,” he stated. “I like when a participant would possibly make a kind of layup that they could not make a month or two in the past, or the group will get right into a defensive rotation in the best way that a couple of months in the past, we weren’t doing. These sorts of issues are magical in their very own manner.”