Coaching Clinic Set For Sept. 29-30
9/20/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Sept. 20, 2011
The University of Alabama men's basketball program and head coach Anthony Grant will offer a two-day coaching clinic Sept. 29-30 at Coleman Coliseum.
Joining Grant and the Crimson Tide coaching staff will be Boston Celtics assistant coach Kevin Eastman. The 22-year coaching veteran is a renowned motivational speaker and teacher of the game in addition to having served as the National Director of Player Development for Nike Basketball.
The clinic begins on Thursday, Sept. 29 with registration from 3:30-4 p.m. at Coleman Coliseum. From 4-8 p.m. Eastman and Grant will present the "DNA of a Championship Team."
The pair is familiar with the makings of a championship team as Eastman served on the staff of the 2008 NBA World Champion Celtics while Grant was on the on the staff for the first of Florida's back-to-back NCAA titles and helped recruit the nucleus of the second. In five years as a head coach, Grant has led his team to the postseason four times.
The clinic resumes the following day with Eastman presenting the "Boston Celtics Defensive System, A-to-Z." Lunch and an afternoon session follows before attendees get to observe the Crimson Tide's practice at 3 p.m.
The cost of the clinic is $50 and includes lunch, an Alabama shirt and coach's notebook. The deadline to register is Sept. 22. For more information, click here, or call the UA men's basketball office at 205-348-4111
