Thomas Anthony "Tab" Baldwin (born 16 May 1958) is an American-New Zealand

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coach who currently serves as the head of the Gilas Pilipinas Youth national basketball program and head coach for the Ateneo Blue Eagles of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). Baldwin also served as a consultant of Philippine Basketball Association club team TNT Tropang Giga.

Coaching career

New Zealand

Baldwin was born in

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and played for the Bishop Kenny High School under the coaching of his father, who played basketball for Notre Dame in the 1930s. From Jacksonville Beach, he went to New Zealand in 1988 to coach the Otago Nuggets. He was promoted with them from the second division to the NBL and then joined the Auckland Stars in 1994. In eight seasons with Auckland, he won five NBL titles (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000), and was named NBL Coach of the Year four times (1995, 97, 99 and 2014). He remains the most victorious coach in the history of the New Zealand NBL. Baldwin's involvement continued with the Stars as a co-owner for another eight years after he left as coach. In 2001, he took the reins of the New Zealand national team. By winning the

2001 FIBA Oceania championship The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 2001 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 2002 FIBA World Championship. The tournament, a best-of-three series between and , was held in Auckland, Wellington and Hamilton Hamilton may refer ...

, the

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— as New Zealand are known — qualified for the 2002 FIBA World Championship, and even reached the semi-finals; this is the best performance by an Oceania team in the history of the World Championships. Baldwin was appointed an Honorary Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2003 New Year Honours, for services to basketball. For his achievements as coach of the New Zealand team, Baldwin was awarded the coach of the year at the

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s — New Zealand's premier sports awards — for both 2001 and 2002.

Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan

Baldwin has coached Banvitspor in

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, PAOK Thessaloniki B.C. in

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and

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. On 16 April 2010, he was appointed as Lebanon national basketball team head coach., and on 15 August 2010 Lebanon won the FIBA Asia Stanković Cup 2010 with Baldwin as head coach. In June 2011, Baldwin was hired to coach the

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Philippines and Ateneo Blue Eagles

On 23 December 2014, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas formally announced the appointment of Baldwin as head coach of the Philippine men's national team (popularly known as ''Gilas Pilipinas''), replacing Chot Reyes. Baldwin's two-year tenure as coach officially began on 1 January 2015. On 7 December 2015, Ateneo de Manila University formally announced the hiring of Baldwin as the head coach of its collegiate men's varsity basketball team. He will be coaching the Blue Eagles in between the 2016 Olympics men's basketball qualifying tournament and the qualifying rounds for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, concentrating on the national team during the UAAP offseason. A few days later, the Ateneo management reconsidered its decision to place Baldwin as the team's head coach following an objection by the Basketball Coaches of the Philippines, and instead was to be appointed as the collegiate team's consultant. On 18 October 2016, SBP executive director Sonny Barrios declared that Chot Reyes will return as head coach of Gilas while Baldwin will stay with the national team as the team's consultant, the same coaching setup the national team had during its historic 2013 FIBA Asia Championship and 2014 FIBA World Cup runs. On 3 December 2017, Baldwin led the Ateneo Blue Eagles to their 9th UAAP basketball championship against the De La Salle Green Archers. Baldwin won 2 more championships with Ateneo. In 2019, he coached the Blue Eagles to a 14-0 sweep of the elimination round of UAAP Season 82 basketball tournaments, with an average winning margin of 17.4 points per game. On 20 November, Ateneo completed the season sweep and won their third consecutive title with Baldwin by defeating the UST Growling Tigers, 86-79. In May of the same year, Baldwin was also appointed as program director for the Philippine youth national team. In June 2021, Baldwin returned to take over as head coach of the Philippines, leading the Philippines to three wins out of three games in the final window of the

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, completing a sweep for ''Gilas''. However, weeks before the first window of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification, Baldwin stepped down from his post as ''Gilas'' coach, choosing to focus on Ateneo's campaign for the UAAP Season 84. He was replaced by Chot Reyes.

Summary

*League Coaching Career: ** Auburn Montgomery - NCAA Division II, 1983–86 **

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, 1986–88 ** Otago Nuggets - NBL, 1988–90 ** Auckland Stars - NBL, 1994–2001 ** Perak Red Eagles - MNBL, 1996–1997 ** Banvitspor - TBL, 2004–06 ** PAOK Thessaloniki B.C. - A1, 2007–08 **

- Divizia A, Dec 2007 - Jun 2009 ** Kepez Belediyesi S.K. - TBL, Sep 2009-Dec 2009 ** Sagesse Beirut -

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, 2010–12 ** Fujian Xunxing ( China, 2012–13) ** Hawke's Bay Hawks (New Zealand, 2013) *International Coaching Career: **Head coach of

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(2001–06) **Head coach of Malaysia national basketball team (1996) **Head coach of Lebanon national basketball team (2010–2011) **Head coach of

(2011–2012) **Head coach of Philippines men's national basketball team (2015–2016, 2021) *Other Basketball Ventures: **Team Consultant of Philippines men's national basketball team (2013–2014, 2016–present) **Team Consultant of Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters - PBA (2014–2016, 2018–2020) **Team Consultant of Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles - UAAP (2016) **Head coach of Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles - UAAP (2016–present) **Head of the Gilas Pilipinas Youth national basketball program

Personal life

Baldwin was previously married to Efthymia, originally from Greece. Efi is the owner-operator of a touring business, ''Definitely Greece'', with tours of Greece and the Greek islands. Baldwin is committed to reside in the Philippines at least until 2019.

Coaching record

Domestic Leagues

, - , align="left" , Otago Nuggets , align="left" , 1990 , 22, , 4, , 18, , .181 , , align="center", , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

, 24, , 15, , 9, , .625 , , align="center", , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

, 30, , 27, , 3, , .9000 , , align="center", Won 1995 NBL-New Zealand Finals , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" , 1996 , 28, , 23, , 5, , .821 , , align="center", Won 1996 NBL-New Zealand Finals , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" , 1997 , 24, , 23, , 1, , .958 , , align="center", Won 1997 NBL-New Zealand Finals , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, 22, , 16, , 6, , .727 , , align="center", , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

, 18, , 14, , 4, , .777 , , align="center", Won 1999 NBL-New Zealand Finals , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, 18, , 12, , 6, , .667 , , align="center", Won 2000 NBL-New Zealand Finals , - , align="left" , Auckland Stars , align="left" ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, 17, , 9, , 8, , .529 , , align="center", Lost 2001 NBL-New Zealand Semifinals , - , align="left" ,

P.A.O.K. BC P.A.O.K. B.C. ( el, Κ.Α.Ε. Π.Α.Ο.Κ., Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinopolitón'', "Pan-Thessalonikian Athletic Cl ...

, align="left" , 2008 , 5, , 1, , 4, , .250 , , align="center", Fired after 5 games , - , align="left" , Fujian Sturgeons , align="left" ,

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

, 32, , 11, , 21, , .343 , , align="center", , -class="sortbottom" , align="center" colspan=2, Career, , 240, , , 155, , , 85, , .645, ,

Collegiate record

References

External links

Basketball New Zealand profile
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