David Fizdale

ABOUT DAVID FIZDALE

Head ball coach for the Memphis Grizzlies beginning in 2016 who previously held a long-running assistant coach position with the Miami Heat organization. In 2018, he became the head coach for the New York Knicks . He was also an assistant at the NBA level in Atlanta and Golden State.

He was a point guard at Fremont High School. He would attend the University of San Diego where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and a minor in sociology.

During his first NBA postseason series as a head coach, played against the San Antonio Spurs, he went viral from a post-game rant about the officiating punctuated with the statement "take that for data."

He married Natasha Sen . He has a son named Kyle Jackson from a former relationship.

He served under head coach Erik Spoelstra for years while an assistant with the Miami Heat.