Kevin Cadle

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Kevin Cadle ( born March 17, 1955 in Buffalo, New York ) is an agent working in the United Kingdom American sports journalist, television presenter and former basketball coach. Cadle won as a basketball coach in the UK numerous championships at club level and was national coach of the Scottish and the English national team and the British Olympic team in 1992, but who could not qualify for the Olympic tournament in 1992. He is regarded as the most successful coach in British basketball history, especially since he trained Kingston Kings with the move into the round of the last eight teams in the European Cup of Champions 1990/91 reached probably the biggest international success of a British club team. After his coaching career Cadle worked as a sports presenter with a focus on the NFL in American football and the NBA in basketball at UK private television channels. In addition, Cadle offers his services as a motivational speaker.

Career

Cadle studied at the Pennsylvania State University where he served as a player in the season 1974/75 the Nittany Lions basketball team in Division I of the NCAA. He then continued his studies at the former Texas A & I University in Kingsville (Texas), belong to the sports teams of the " Lone Star Conference " Division II of the NCAA. After his four-year career as a player in the NCAA, he was assistant coach of the team, and after a year 1979 in the same position at the Angelo State University, whose teams belong to the same Conference. In 1983, he got the offer to go to Scotland, where he was head coach in charge of the club from Falkirk. After two years he moved to England, where he took the third place of the English " National Basketball League " ( NBL ) in 1984/85 Manchester Giants. The Giants, however, were bought by the owners of the local rivals Manchester United and his compatriot Joe Whelton, manager of United, Cadle ousted as coach of the fusion club. While United finished the regular season 1985 /86 NBL first, the Kingston Kings won the play-offs of the NBL.

For the season 1986/87 Cadle was coach of the play-off winner Kings of Kingston upon Thames. The team finished the regular season second in the NBL behind Portsmouth and before Manchester United and lost the final match of the play-offs against local rivals Crystal Palace. For the following season was introduced as a closed professional league, the British Basketball League (BBL ), in which the Scottish series champion MIM Livingston was taken next to the best English teams in the NBL. The Kings occupied in the premiere season 1987/88 in the regular season behind FC Portsmouth again in second place and lost in the semifinals of the playoffs against the eventual champions from Livingston (West Lothian ). David E. Murray, the owner of MIM Livingston, became president of the football club Glasgow Rangers and bought the Kingston Kings, who moved subsequently as a basketball team Glasgow Rangers in Scotland. After the Portsmouth had retired and the team was sold by Manchester United, won the Rangers after just two losses, the regular season of BBL and were in the play-off finals and defending champion Livingston defeat in the duel of only two Scottish teams in the BBL.

For the 1989/90 season also Murray retired from basketball and the former Rangers returned as King in the South East of London. You could Cadles compatriot Alton Byrd undertake as point guard, who had previously played for many years for MIM Livingston, and ordered the team with the English national team Alan Cunningham and Colin Irish on an almost hitting team in the BBL. In the following three seasons we won all the titles of the BBL to the cup competition " National Cup" in 1991, which was won by the Sunderland Saints. In championship matches of the BBL is lost in these three years, only seven games and remained unbeaten in the play- offs. After Alan Cunningham was for the Rangers already become 1989 's "Most Valuable Player " ( MVP ) of the BBL, won Alton Byrd this award twice in 1991 and in 1992. European Champions Cup in 1990/91 could be in the second leg of the second round of a 16-point projection defend and lost to the Russian champions CSKA Moscow by two spots. Thus they reached the group stage of the best eight teams in this competition. Here they finished after four wins in 14 group matches with the seventh place, the best placement of a British team in the highest European club competition. After Cadle had previously been already as a national coach of Scotland, he was selected in 1991 as coach of the Olympic team of the United Kingdom, in which the selection of players in England, Scotland and Wales were drawn together. This activity had four years previously exercised his compatriot Joe Whelton. In qualifying for the Olympic tournament in 1992, however, the national team was unsuccessful. Even in personal union as coach of the England team Cadle could qualify for this selection no finals tournament. 1992 pulled the Kings to a hall to Guildford and could not repeat her previous success, although one defended the title in the National Cup in 1993. In the semifinals of the playoffs, they lost against the main round First Worthing Bears, Colin Irish, MVP that season, had committed. In the play-offs the following season they won in the first round against the London Towers and moved into the play-off final, where they were again defeated by defending champion Worthing Bears and Titellos in the BBL remained in that season.

For the following season 1994/95 Cadle went back to the British capital London, and was coach of the Towers. The Towers improved to third place in the main round table and were only a defeat worse than the main round winners Sheffield Sharks. In the play-off semi-finals, however they lost in extra time against former club Manchester Cadles Giants, which was reactivated after the departure of United six years earlier. In the season 1995/ 96, the Towers seemed to be able to build on the former dominance of the Kingston Kings and initially won all competitions in the BBL, including the regular season. In the final of the play-offs but they lost against Birmingham Bullets to BBL MVP Tony Dorsey. In the following season 1996/97 they defended the title in the League Cup BBL Trophy, but had the local rivals Leopards to defer in the National Cup and the main round of the championship. In the play- off final 1997, the two London clubs clashed. The Towers kept just one point difference the upper hand and won for the first time the play-offs. In the following season 1997/98 was achieved despite 23 wins in 36 games, only as sixth in the regular season, the play-offs. In the first round you could just beat the third Newcastle Eagles yet, but then lost in the semifinals against the Thames Valley Tigers. The team finished the season Titellos and Cadle was looking for a change in the club's management again for change. But he was burnt as a trainer and moved prefer to watch TV. He ended his career as a coach with five play-off titles, main circuit championships and five titles in the League Cup BBL Trophy. The cup competition National Cup he won six times. As BBL coach he is at a rate of about 80 % as - considered the richest victorious coach of the BBL history - relatively speaking.

In his second career as a sports journalist and television presenter Cadle is specialized in the most successful professional basketball league NBA from the United States and their counterparts in the NFL American football, where he openly showed himself as a big fan of the Buffalo Bills from his hometown. Cadle presented and moderated the transmissions in the British television British Sky Broadcasting. In addition, Cadle operated as a paid motivational speaker.