Gordon Chiesa is an assistant basketball coach for the Memphis Grizzlies

Memphis Grizzlies

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. From 1989 to 2004, he served as an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz

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. He coached as an assistant coach at Dartmouth

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 from 1979 to 1981. From 1981 to 1985, he served as the head coach at Manhattan

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. In 1983, he was named the Metro Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. He later served as the head basketball coach at Providence College

Providence College

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. He is the only coach to serve as an assistant in both an NBA Finals game and an NCAA Final Four game. Chiesa accepted a position as a New Jersey Nets

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assistant coach in 2005 but later resigned because of personal reasons.