title: Kevin Yurkus
text: # Kevin Yurkus
  
  Kevin Yurkus is an American professional basketball coach who was most recently head coach of Saigon Heat and the Vietnam national basketball team.
  
  ## Coaching career
  
  ### Club coaching career
  
  From 2016–2017, he coached the Nakhon Pathom Mad Goats in Thailand. After that, he came to Vietnam to coach Cantho Catfish from 2017–2019.
  
  ### National team coaching career
  
  From 2019 to 2022, Yurkus was the head coach of the senior Vietnamese national basketball team.
  
  