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James Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University. He is a former head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards.
Sep 19, 2022 · Hamilton, 74, was the first Black player at the University of Tennessee at Martin and the first Black coach in the Southeastern Conference when he was hired as an assistant...
Mar 14, 2024 · WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Of all the indignities Leonard Hamilton experienced growing up in segregated Gastonia — and there are too many to list and too many to remember — the one that perhaps stays...
Mar 21, 2024 · After Florida State endured an awkward exit for football legend Bobby Bowden, can it avoid a similar ending for 75-year-old hoops coach Leonard Hamilton?
Jun 12, 2023 · The most successful coach in Florida State history, Leonard Hamilton is the Seminoles’ all-time winningest coach and is the fifth all-time winningest coach in ACC history.
Mar 11, 2020 · TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Leonard Hamilton smiled, clasped his hands and laughed as he reflected on the conditions he grew up in. He was born in Gastonia, N.C., in 1948 during an era where segregation...
Feb 14, 2023 · In a recent interview with Jon Rothstein of College Hoops Today, Hamilton declared he'd be back on the sidelines at Florida State next year regardless of how the season comes to a close.
Leonard Hamilton was hired in April 1990 as the second head coach after the Hurricanes reinstated men's basketball. Coach Hamilton manned the helm for ten years, guiding the program back to national prominence.
Jun 16, 2020 · Florida State men’s basketball coach Leonard Hamilton was the first black athlete to play at UT Martin and has experienced firsthand the changes the civil rights movement has brought to America...
Leonard Hamilton. Under Hamilton, Florida State won the first ACC Championship in school history in 2012 and finished first in the ACC regular-season for the first time in 2020. He has won at least 20 games in 12 of his 20 years at Florida State and has led FSU into the postseason 16 times.
