Tim Cone
American basketball player-coach
Earl Timothy Cone (born December 14, 1957) is an American professional basketball coach who currently leads Barangay Ginebra San Miguel in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and serves as head coach of the Philippine men's national basketball team. He is widely regarded as the most accomplished coach in PBA history, with twenty-six (26) championships to his name, including two (2) Grand Slam titles. He has also won five (5) Coach of the Year awards and holds the record for the most coaching wins in league history, with over one thousand (1,000) victories.
Cone is a proponent of the triangle offense.
Early life and education
Cone was born in the United States and grew up in Oregon. He moved to the Philippines when he was nine years old after his father came to the country to work in the logging industry. Cone attended a public elementary school in Baler, Aurora and later at International School Manila.
Cone returned to the United States when he was 18 to study at Menlo College in California and the George Washington University in Washington D.C. After college, Cone worked at a bank in San Francisco before returning to the Philippines at 24.
Commentary career
Cone worked as a Vintage Television's basketball analyst for PBA coverages from 1986 until 1989.
Coaching career
Club
Alaska Milk (1989–2011)
1989, after working for Vintage Sports, Cone took over as the coach of the Alaska Air Force with players such as the famed Bruise Brothers duo of Yoyoy Villamin and Ricky Relosa, and Abet Guidaben.
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