If you watch or attend Minnesota Timberwolves games, you’ve seen assistant coach Bryan Gates.
He’s not loud, he kind of looks like your high school history teacher, and he’ll never boast or brag about himself. He’s taken the long and windy road to the NBA coaching tree, much like the man who hired him in Minnesota, Flip Saunders.
Journey To The League
His professional head coaching career started in the summer of 2003 when he was the head coach of the CBL’s Hickory Nutz, followed by the Beirut Blue Stars of Lebanon in 2004-05.