Robert Michael "Bob" Bender (born April 28, 1957 in Quantico, Virginia

Quantico, Virginia

- Demographics :As of the census of 2000, there are 561 people, 295 households, and 107 families living in the town. The population density is . There are 359 housing units at an average density of .-Racial composition:...

) is a basketball

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 coach, currently working as an assistant with the NBA's

National Basketball Association

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 Atlanta Hawks

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. He attended Bloomington High School in Bloomington, IL, where he was an All-American in basketball. He began his college career at Indiana University, under Bobby Knight. A graduate of Duke University

Duke University

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, he began his coaching career as an assistant at Duke under Mike Krzyzewski. He later served as head coach at Illinois State University

Illinois State University

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 and the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, and was an assistant with the Philadelphia 76ers

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