Kaleb Canales
In 2005, Canales was hired as a video intern for the Portland Trail Blazers, and was eventually hired as the team's video coordinator. In 2009, he was promoted to an assistant coach for the team. In 2010, Canales served as the Blazers' head coach during the NBA Summer League. He was promoted to interim head coach of the Trail Blazers after head coach Nate McMillan was dismissed on March 15, 2012. Canales became the youngest active head coach in the NBA and the first Mexican-American coach in NBA history.
Molly McCloskey
McCloskey, a daughter of well-known basketball coach, Jack McCloskey, spent her early childhood in North Carolina, United States, where her father coached the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Later, after her father was made head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1972, the family moved to Oregon. McCloskey was educated in St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, which she attended on a sports scholarship.