California-born Brian Goorjian leaves as head coach of Australian men's basketball team


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SYDNEY — California-born Brian Goorjian is leaving as head coach of the Australian men's basketball team after four Olympics and two stints in charge of the Boomers. In his first tenure as national coach from 2001 to 2008, Goorjian guided the Boomers to the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics, a World Cup in 2006 in Japan and a gold Commonwealth Games medal in Melbourne the same year. Returning to the role in 2020, Goorjian led the Boomers to their historic first Olympic medal in Tokyo — a bronze — and then a fourth Games in Paris this year, where Australia lost in the quarterfinals in overtime to Serbia.

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