Tony DiLeo
Tony DiLeo ( born August 8, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball coach and sports director, who has successfully worked as a women's team in Germany and on an interim basis coached the NBA club from his hometown. Since 2003, DiLeo worked as a Vice Director of the Philadelphia 76ers, interrupted only by his work as a trainer in the 2008 /09 season.
DiLeo began his studies at Tennessee Technological University and played for the Golden Eagles of TTU in the basketball team 1974 to 1975. Afterwards he moved to the La Salle University his hometown and played for the Explorers from 1976 to 1978 in the NCAA under the later NBA & WNBA coach Paul Westhead.
He then found his way to Germany and was coach of the Women's National Basketball League team DJK Agon 08 Dusseldorf. In his first Coach of the Year in Dusseldorf, he was able to win the second championship of the Association after 1975, which should follow six league titles and 1986 in consecutive order. In the cup this winning streak was interrupted only in 1982, otherwise also the double was won in all seasons of coach DiLeo. At this time the club was in 136 games in national competitions unbeaten, which earned them an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. 1983 and 1986 DJK Agon 08 reached the final of the European Cup Ladies ' Cup, where AS Vicenza was inferior, respectively, which won the European Cup five times in that decade. In addition DiLeo served from 1981 to 1985 as coach of the German women's basketball national team. In 1986 he moved along the Rhine to Cologne and was coach of the men's basketball league team of Saturn Cologne. Again, get DiLeo in the wake until 1988 two championship titles. In 1987 he was also awarded as Germany's Basketball Coach of the Year. Following the withdrawal of the main sponsor Saturn DiLeo helped to find a new sponsor with the leaders of the Istanbul sports club Galatasaray. After a few months, but got out of this also sponsors and the club went bankrupt.
1990 DiLeo returned to his home country and worked 76ers on the staff of Philadelphia, first as a scout and later as manager assistant of 1992 to 1994. Starting in 1999, he worked first as a " director of player personnel ," before he became in 2003 assistant general manager and vice president of the association. After a disappointing start to the season he jumped in 2008 as interim coach and was able to lead the team still in the play-offs for the championship with a positive balance sheet under his aegis. After the season, he returned to his post as vice-president.
Since 2000, Tony DiLeo is regularly as a guest coach at the basketball camps at Hagerhof castle as a guest. Meanwhile, he has been accepted for his work and his services around the camp in the Hall of Fame basketball camps and has been honored with a banner on the ceiling of the training hall.
DiLeo is married to a German woman and their son TJ also plays basketball in the NCAA for the Temple University Owls. In addition, TJ member of the German junior national team, which has participated in the European Championship 2010.