College - Kansas


Chad Iske enters his 14th season with the Denver Nuggets and his sixth as an assistant coach. Iske oversees the scouting of upcoming opponents and assists Coach Karl with game plan preparation.

Iske began working with the Nuggets on the ground level, serving as an intern in the scouting department for the 1999-00 season. From there he worked as the team’s video coordinator and scouting coordinator, began advanced scouting in 2004, and was promoted to assistant coach in 2008. He also scouted the CBA and D-League during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons.

A graduate of Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora (CO), Iske has volunteered as a coach in the school’s high school and junior high basketball programs. He also served as an assistant coach for basketball and baseball at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kan. and helped start the Kansas Angels summer high school basketball program in 1997 – where he was the primary fund raiser and assistant coach in ’97-98.

Iske, 36, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1999 with a degree in sports management. He and his wife Lauren currently reside in Denver.