Kevin Yurkus
American professional basketball coach
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Kevin Yurkus is an American professional basketball coach who was most recently head coach of Saigon Heat and the Vietnam national basketball team.
NationalityAmerican
Coaching career1994–present
2016–2017Nakhon Pathom Mad Goats
2017–2019Cantho Catfish
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1994–present | |||||||||||
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Coaching | ||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Nakhon Pathom Mad Goats | |||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Cantho Catfish | |||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Saigon Heat (VBA) | |||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | Saigon Heat | |||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | Vietnam National Basketball Team | |||||||||||
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As a head coach:
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Coaching career
Club coaching career
From 2016–2017, he coached the Nakhon Pathom Mad Goats in Thailand. After that, he came to Vietnam to coach Cantho Catfish from 2017–2019.
National team coaching career
From 2019 to 2022, Yurkus was the head coach of the senior Vietnamese national basketball team.[3]
