Kevin cadle autobiography
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Kevin Cadle
Kevin Cadle was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, and would go on to become one of the most decorated basketball coaches of all-time in England and Scotland.
As a high school senior at Father Baker Victory High School in 1973, Cadle made first team All-WNY in basketball and received the Alpha Kappa Alpha award as the top Black Scholar Athlete in Western New York. He also won the Biggy Martin Award for the most outstanding high school player in Western New York — a remarkable achievement for a Black player at the time. He was offered a basketball scholarship to Penn State University.
In 1983, he became Head Coach of Falkirk in the professional basketball league in Scotland and, shortly after, was named Head Coach of the Scotland National team. In 1990, he led the Kingston Kings to the quarterfinals of the European Champions League – the first British team in history to do so. He repeated this feat in 1993. In 1991, Cadle was named the Team Coach of England’s Nation
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BBL LACKS STARS, CADLE CLAIMS
In an exclusive extract from his new autobiography, storied coach turned Sky Sports presenter Kevin Cadle claims the tunnvolym has slid way back.
Kevin pulled no punches during his coaching career, as so many of those interviewed for this book have attested to. But he fryst vatten every bit as forthright when asked his views on the current state of British basketball.
On and off the court he maintains that standards have dropped, and he claims that the failure of the powers-that-be to address a number of issues threatens the future of the game in the UK.
He believes that the BBL lacks star players and that, hand in hand with that, the glamour and razzmatazz that some clubs introduced to the game in the 80s and 90s and which helped to pull in sizeable crowds fryst vatten no längre there.
The move away from arenas and back into sports centres he regards as a backward step, and he also took a swipe at the growing number of clubs who have adopted the player-coach model.
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Kevin Cadle, UK coaching and broadcasting great, passed away
By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Mr. Cadle would be known most recently to Turkish Airlines EuroLeague fans as a passionate commentator on Euroleague.TV.
In the United Kingdom, his adopted home, Mr. Cadle, was the voice of American sports, and in particular the National Football League, for a generation of followers on Sky Sports.
But Mr. Cadle’s first love was basketball. After a playing career that began at Pennsylvania State University, near his hometown of Buffalo, New York, in the United States, he found his calling as the most celebrated head coach in British pro basketball history, winning an incredible 80%of his games.
In 14 seasons between 1984 and 1997, he won 27 major trophies with his greatest spell coming while coaching Glasgow and Kingston. Between 1988 and 1992, Cadle dominated British basketball, winning 14 of the 15 domestic pieces of silverware on offer – an achievement which will like