Igor Kokoškov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Igor Kokoškov

Serbian basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1971

Place of Birth: Belgrade, Belgrade District

Profession: basketball coach

Nationality: United States, Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Igor Stefan Kokoškov ( k?-KOSH-kov; Serbian Cyrillic: ???? ?????? ????????; born 17 December 1971) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the head coach of the Serbia national team.
He previously spent 18 years in the league as an assistant coach, with his most recent tenure there being with the Utah Jazz, before briefly being a head coach for the Phoenix Suns for a full season. Kokoškov was the first European to be a full-time assistant coach in NCAA Division I college basketball, and the first non-American to hold such a position in the NBA.
In 2004, he became the first non-American assistant coach to win an NBA championship, and the first to serve on an NBA All-Star Game coaching staff.
He is also the first coach born and raised outside of North America to be hired as a head coach in the NBA. He won EuroBasket 2017, while working as the head coach of the Slovenian men's national team.