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}} David Michael Blatt (born May 22, 1959) is an Israeli-American professional basketball coach, and a former professional basketball player. He is the current head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Blatt played point guard at Princeton University from 1977 to 1981, and played in the Maccabiah Games for the USA national team that won a gold medal in 1981. He then played professional basketball in Israel for nine of the next 12 years, before an injury ended his playing career and he began coaching full-time. He is one of the most successful American coaches in European basketball history. As a coach, Blatt has been the Israeli League Coach of the Year four times (1996, 2002, 2011, and 2014), the Russian Super League Coach of the Year (2005), and the Euroleague Coach of the Year (2014). Blatt took over as Cleveland's head coach in 2014, and his lifetime .639 winning percentage after the 2014–15 season was the best of any Cavaliers head coach in team history. ==Biography== Blatt grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts, and is Jewish. As a boy, he went to a Reform temple, and until his bar mitzvah he attended Hebrew school twice a week.〔 He says that in Israel he became "much more Jewish and much more Zionist."〔 In his sophomore year at Princeton, a coach for an Israeli kibbutz team recruited him to play in Israel for the summer. The summer at Kibbutz Gan Shmuel turned out to be a life-changing experience. Blatt graduated from Princeton in 1981 with a B.A. in English literature, completing his senior thesis on Bernard Malamud, author of ''The Natural''. In 1981 he immigrated to Israel, and served in the Israel Defense Forces on the Schneller military base.〔〔("David Blatt’s Maccabiah Experience Influenced His Life Decisions" ), Maccabi USA (Fall 2014)〕 In 1991 Blatt married Kinneret, from Netanya, Israel; she had played on an Israeli professional basketball team that he coached.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Can David Blatt guide the LeBron James, Cavaliers to promise land? – NBA )〕 They have four children: twin daughters Shani and Adi (who have served in the Israeli army), daughter Ela (his youngest child), and son Tamir (born in 1997; in 2014 he was the starting point guard on the Israeli junior national basketball team, and had signed to play for four years with Hapoel Tel Aviv).〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=When NBA called, David Blatt turned to his friends )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Five young players to watch: Blatt, Dibba, Svoboda, Kesteloot, Goloman )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Blatt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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