Riccardo Fois

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Riccardo Fois
Sacramento Kings
PositionAssistant coach
League NBA
Personal information
Born (1987-02-19) 19 February 1987 (age 37)
Olbia, Italy
NationalityItalian
Listed height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Career information
College Pepperdine (2007–2008)
NBA draft 2009: undrafted
Playing career2009–2012
Position Shooting guard
Number19
Coaching career2012–present
Career history
As coach:
2012–2014 Pepperdine (graduate assistant)
2014–2019 Gonzaga (dir. analytics)
2017–present Italy (assistant)
2019–2021 Phoenix Suns (player development)
2021–2024 Arizona (assistant)
2024–present Sacramento Kings (assistant)

Riccardo Fois (born 19 February 1987) is an Italian professional basketball coach and former player currently working as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously was an assistant coach at the University of Arizona. He played prep basketball at Boaz High School (Boaz, Alabama) while in the exchange student program and later went onto play college basketball for the Pepperdine Waves.

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Playing career

When Fois first moved to the United States, he played the 2007–08 season at Pepperdine and was named to the WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll.

Fois played professionally in Italian 3rd-tier Serie B from 2009 to 2012. He played for Robur Basket Osimo and Pallacanestro Firenze.

National team career

Fois was a member of the Italy national under-16 team at the 2003 European Championship for Cadets in Madrid, Spain. [1] Over six tournament games, he averaged 0.8 points and 0.8 rebounds per game. [2]

Coaching career

Fois served as a graduate assistant for the men's basketball program at Pepperdine University from 2012 to 2014. [3]

Fois worked for the Gonzaga University men's basketball program for five seasons (2014–2019), elevating to the title of director of analytics. In this role, he handled video breakdown and exchange, evaluated player analytics and assisted the coaching staff with day-to-day program operations. [4] The Bulldogs advanced at least as far as the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament in all five of Fois' seasons, and he helped the program reach its first-ever Final Four in 2017, played in Glendale, Arizona, when Gonzaga finished as national runner-up. [3]

Fois assisted Gonzaga's head coach Mark Few as the video coordinator for the United States national team coached by Few that won the bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. [4] Fois was an assistant coach for the Italian national team during the 2017 FIBA EuroBasket championship, serving on the staff of Ettore Messina. [5]

On June 26, 2019, Fois joined Monty Williams with the Phoenix Suns [3] [6] as director of player development. After a first season where the Suns miss the playoff by a game after going undefeated in the bubble, [7] the Suns take off and make the NBA finals losing only to the Bucks.

In 2021 he signed with University of Arizona with Tommy Lloyd as an assistant coach. [8] In 3 years Arizona collected two Pac-12 championships and two Pac-12 regular season. While they fall short of to a Final Four, the Wildcats were a 1 seed and twice a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament and reached two sweet 16 in 3 years. [9]

In 2021 he also joined coach Gianmarco Pozzecco as an assistant in the Italian National team. They lost to eventual silver medalist France in the quarter final of the 2021 Eurobasket after upsetting Nikola Jokic's Serbia in the previous round. [10]

In 2023 they lost in the quarter finals of the FIBA World Cup in the Philippines vs. the US, the first Italian appearance in the top 8 in the world in over 20 years. [11]

On 9 September 2024, Fois was hired as an assistant coach by the Sacramento Kings. [12]

Fois is credited with developing and helping numerous players during his career: from Domantas Sabonis, Zach Collins, Killian Tillie, Rui Hachimura in his time at Gonzaga, to Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson with the Suns, until Ben Mathurin, Dalen Terry, Christian Koloko and Pelle Larson at Arizona. [10] [13]

Personal life

Fois earned his bachelor's degree in integrated marketing communication from the Pepperdine University in 2008 and earned his master's degree in business administration from Pepperdine in 2014. [4]

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  2. ↑ "Riccardo Fois Italy 2003". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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  7. ↑ "How The 8-0 Suns Missed The Play-In". FOX Sports. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
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  9. ↑ "What Seed Is Arizona in The NCAA Tournament?". BetArizona.com. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
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