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MICAH NORI<br />
Assistant Coach<br />
Micah Nori is beginning his first season as an assistant coach for the Raptors and his 12 th<br />
overall with the organization. He was promoted July 1, 2009 after serving last season as<br />
the team’s Director of <strong>NBA</strong> Scouting. In addition to his duties as an assistant coach, Nori<br />
will continue to oversee the advance (opponent) scouting operations for the club.<br />
In his previous role as Director of <strong>NBA</strong> Scouting, Nori supervised the management of the<br />
video scouting/editing suite and acted as the interface with the coaching staff as it related to advance scouting.<br />
Nori had served since 2000 as the team’s advance scout where he was responsible for scouting all up<strong>com</strong>ing<br />
opponents and preparing reports for both the coaching staff and players on opponent’s play schemes, offensive/<br />
defensive tendencies and player personnel. Prior to be<strong>com</strong>ing the team’s advance scout, he served as assistant to<br />
the coaching staff from 1998-2000.<br />
Nori played baseball at Indiana University from 1993-97 where he was a four-year starter and captain of their 1997<br />
Big Ten Championship team. He received his Master’s Degree in Sports Organization in 1998 from Miami (OH)<br />
University.<br />
Nori and his wife, Melissa, have a son, Dante’, and a daughter, Mia.<br />
ERIC HUGHES<br />
Assistant Coach/Basketball Development<br />
Eric Hughes was promoted to Assistant Coach/Basketball Development on July 1, 2009.<br />
He joined the Raptors in 2007-08 as a basketball development consultant. He came to the<br />
club from Goodwin Sports Management and Spokane Community College.<br />
Hughes worked since 2002 as the director of summer player development for Goodwin<br />
Sports Management in Seattle, creating workout programs and training <strong>NBA</strong> players Jamal<br />
Crawford, Kevin Durant, Al Horford, Dwight Howard, Gary Payton, Nate Robinson and Rodney Stuckey. He had also<br />
been the head coach at Spokane Community College in Spokane, Washington during that time. He <strong>com</strong>piled an 88-<br />
61 (.590) mark in his five seasons, leading the Bigfoot’s to the Eastern Region championship in 2005 and 2006. He<br />
was named Eastern Region Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2006.<br />
Hughes also served as an assistant coach under current Atlanta Hawks assistant Bob Bender at the University of<br />
Washington from 1993-2002, as an assistant at the University of California from 1991-93, and as a graduate assistant<br />
at Illinois State from 1989-91.<br />
Hughes has served as the head coach for the Raptors’ entry in the Las Vegas Summer League the past two<br />
summers.<br />
ALVIN WILLIAMS<br />
Assistant Coach/Player Development<br />
Alvin Williams was hired as an Assistant Coach/Basketball Development on July 1, 2009.<br />
Williams makes his first foray into coaching since he ended his <strong>NBA</strong> playing career in<br />
2007.<br />
One of the most beloved Raptors of all time, the Villanova University product spent nine<br />
seasons with the organization from 1997-2006. Williams averaged 9.9 points and 4.3 assists<br />
in 417 regular season games and 12.5 points and 4.3 assists in 78 playoff appearances. He ranks among the<br />
Raptors’ All-Time Leaders in 15 categories.<br />
In July, Williams served as an assistant coach for the Raptors’ entry at the Las Vegas Summer League.<br />
TORONTO RAPTORS 2009-10 PRESEASON
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