The Breakers have wrapped up a global search for a new coach with the appointment of Gordon Herbert, the man who led Germany to their 2023 FIBA World Cup title. <\/p>\n
The 67-year-old has an extensive coaching record in Europe and Canada, most recently working with Bayern Munich and the Canadian national side. <\/p>\n
“Gordon is a world-class strategist with a proven track record of winning at the highest possible level,” said Dillon Boucher, Breakers president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n
Herbert will replace Finn Petteri Koponen who left the franchise at the end of last season after a mixed two years in charge with the former championship winning team finished 9th and then 7th.<\/p>\n
Gordon Herbert named to replace Finn Petteri Koponen who left at the end of last season.\u00a0 (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Despite being without a confirmed coach for the past three months, the Breakers have still managed to sign marquee talent with Sam Mennenga and Parker Jackson-Cartwright returning while DJ Vasiljevic and Kouat Noi have joined from other NBL teams.<\/p>\n
Breakers Club chairman Marc Mitchell said the Herbert appointment is a key piece of the puzzle.<\/p>\n
\u201cGordon has proven he can deliver championship winning, high-performance teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herbert is currently the national coach of Canada and will continue in that role.<\/p>\n
He will arrive in August and plans to bring an assistant coach with him to Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Breakers have wrapped up a global search for a new coach with the appointment of Gordon Herbert,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3392,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-437414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-breakers","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}