Hamed Afagh

A professional championship basketball player and coach.

Hamed Afagh is a  coach for the Hoops for kids family.  He has played professional basketball for the Iranian national team for seventeen years.  He has multiple national championships with record breaking shooting and defensive awards, along with olympic gold medals.

Coach Hamed teaches and guides our kids to help understand the fundamentals of the game. He has effective coaching techniques, core conditioning skills and  professional enthusiasm when it comes to basketball education.  14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and head coach at the University of California at Los Angeles. Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood,” he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period as head coach at UCLA, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than two in a row. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men’s basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden was named national coach of the year six times.

He also won a Helms national championship at Purdue as a player 1931–1932 for a total of 11 national titles, a feat matched only by Geno Auriemma of NCAA women’s basketball.