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By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted January 30, 2025 1:57 pm
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The Calgary Surge of the Canadian Elite Basketball League announced Thursday that erstwhile NBA seat brag Kaleb Canales has been named the team’s caput manager for the 2025 season.
The 46-year-old Canales, who is presently the subordinate caput manager for the Dallas Mavericks’ NBA G League affiliate, has antecedently been an adjunct manager with the Portland Trail Blazers, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers and Orlando Magic.
During the 2011-12 NBA season, helium was promoted to interim caput manager of the Trail Blazers for 23 games aft caput manager Nate McMillan was dismissed, becoming the NBA’s youngest progressive caput manager and the archetypal Mexican-American to clasp the position.
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Canales is the archetypal CEBL manager to person NBA caput coaching experience.
“We could not beryllium much excited to person specified an experienced and talented idiosyncratic similar manager Canales articulation our squad this season,” said Surge wide manager Shane James successful a statement.
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“Rosters successful the CEBL acquisition important turnover each play and that has emboldened our enactment to attack coaching recruitment rather otherwise than different teams.”
Canales has besides served arsenic subordinate caput manager of the Mexican men’s nationalist squad since 2021.
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The Surge unfastened the CEBL play May 11 connected the roadworthy against the Edmonton Stingers.
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