Good Sports: Mistry Follows NBA Coaching Dream
More than a decade ago, while earning a bachelor’s degree at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), Dipesh Mistry helped coach the basketball team and harbored a lofty dream. As he told the Toronto Star, “I had ‘head coach’ on my background on my laptop every day with the NBA logo.”
Mistry is one step closer to achieving his dream. He has been promoted to assistant coach/player development for the Sacramento Kings. Entering his third season with the Kings, he previously served as head video coordinator/player development coach.
Mistry has been working in the NBA for eight years, serving mostly as a video coordinator. Prior to the Kings, he spent five seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, beginning as the team’s head video coordinator (2018-2019) and rising to a coaching assistant and special assistant to the head coach (2021-23). Before coming to America, he was the video coordinator for the Canadian men’s and women’s national teams.
“He’s a good young coach, he’s sharp, he’s detail-oriented, he works his butt off, he’s come from the video room all the way up,” Doug Christie, head coach of the Kings, told the Star. “Some of them, in my opinion, don’t necessarily have that touch. It’s just video and that’s good but he actually knows how to communicate with the players.”
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