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Alex Sarama is currently Head Coach for the Portland Fire in the WNBA. He previously worked for the Cleveland Cavaliers as Assistant Coach / Director of Player Development, Paris Basketball in the EuroCup, the Rip City Remix (Portland Trail Blazers’ G League Affiliate), the London Lions and NBA Europe.

Alex is the founder of the coach education company, Transforming Basketball. He is widely regarded as an industry-leading voice within the field of contemporary skill acquisition and more specifically, the constraints-led approach. Sarama's bestselling Amazon book, the first edition of Transforming Basketball, was released in April 2024. He has delivered clinics in over 40 countries around the world and worked as a coach developer for numerous organizations and international basketball federations. This includes work done in multiple sports outside of basketball.

Prior to these roles, Alex spent a formative three years working at College Basket Borgomanero in Italy, where he first started sharing ideas on how to apply an ecological approach in multiple departments. It is these ideas which now form the basis of the Transforming approach.

Alex has written three books on contemporary skill acquisition principles in basketball: Transforming Basketball (2024), a Constraints-Led Approach to Basketball Coaching (2026), and Transcending Basketball (2027 release).
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