Gordon Herbert is a retired basketball

Basketball

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 player and former Tapiolan Honka

Tapiolan Honka

Espoon Honka is a basketball club based in Espoo, Finland. Espoo is Finland's second largest city, with a population over 240,000. It is nearby Helsinki.Originally, one sport club Tapion Honka existed in Espoo. It was founded in 1957...

 head coach. Since April 2010 he is again head coach of Frankfurt Skyliners, which he coached already in 2004.

Herbert attended the University of Idaho

University of Idaho

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 and went on with his basketball career in Finland

Finland

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 for 12 years. In Finland

Finland

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 he played for various teams. His playing career ended in 1994, when he started coaching. Herbert played for Canada

Canadian national men's basketball team

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 at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1984 Summer Olympics

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, where the team finished just out of the medals in fourth place, and at the 1986 FIBA World Championship

1986 FIBA World Championship

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.

Herbert has coached many teams including Frankfurt Skyliners, with which he won the German League

Basketball Bundesliga

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 in 2006. In the current Basketball Bundesliga season he has led the Skyliners to their 3rd leaguefinals-appearance against top rated Brose Baskets Bamberg after beating other top-rated teams such as Alba Berlin in the play-offs. He also coached French teams as Paris

Paris Basket Racing

Paris Basket Racing, or PBR, is a now-defunct French professional basketball club from Paris. It was founded in the year 1922 as the basketball section of the sports club Racing Club de Paris. The team took the name "Paris Basket Racing" in 2000....

 and Pau Orthez

Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez

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 with which he won the French Cup in the 2006-2007 season. On July 7, 2007 he officially became head coach of Aris BC

Aris BC

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. Herbert has also been a Toronto Raptors

Toronto Raptors

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assistant coach.