The National Basketball Association (NBA), as part of their ongoing commitment of growing the game of basketball in the UK, are teaming up with the Basketball Coaches Association (BCA), England Basketball (EB) and London Basketball (LB), for three coaching seminars in 2009.

 

The second of these clinics will be taking place at The O2 Arena with special guest Mike Wilhelm, Assistant Coach for the Chicago Bulls.

 

This is yet another fantastic opportunity for coaches across the capital and the UK to learn and support their own coaching development in an event supported by the newly-titled London Basketball Coaches Association (previously known as London Basketball Coaches Committee).

 

This Coaches Evening again provides a unique, free opportunity to meet international coaches, observe their coaching techniques, listen and ask questions as they discuss their favourite drills.

 

 

Date: Monday 5th October 2009

Time: 7.00pm – clinic starts at 7:30pm SHARP till 9.30pm

Location: The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX

Nearest Tube: North Greenwich (Jubilee Line)

Buses: 108, 129, 132, 161, 188, 422, 472, 486

 

 

Mike Wilhelm is in his first full season as an assistant coach and his seventh overall with the Bulls. Prior to this season, Mike spent the last six years as an assistant coach/advance scout with the team.

 

Now in his 13th year overall in the NBA, prior to joining the Bulls, Mike spent the 2001-02 season as an advance scout for the Denver Nuggets. He first entered the NBA with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 1993-94 season as the team’s assistant video coordinator.

 

Wilhelm became the head video coordinator in 1996, a position he held until 1999 when he became the team’s advance scout. He also served as assistant NBA Coaches Events 2009 coach for the WNBA’s Cleveland Rockers from 1997 through the 1999 season, winning the Eastern Conference Championship with the Rockers in 1998.

 

Mike’s coaching career began in Sweden’s professional league, where he directed the Sundsvall Dragons for two seasons from 1990-92. He enjoys conducting basketball and coaches clinics in Scandinavia during the off-season and has worked on the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders in China in 2006.

 

Mike played basketball at Southampton College from 1986 through 1990 and graduated with a degree in history. He also received a master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1993. Wilhelm, a native Clevelander, played his high school basketball at St. Ignatius in Cleveland.

 

Wilhelm, 42, and his wife Annika have two children, Max and Isabella.