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BRIAN HECKER

Senior Director of Basketball Analytics and Innovation

Brian Hecker enters his 21st season with the HEAT and his third as Senior Director Of Basketball Analytics And Innovation. Hecker oversees the basketball analytics team, including an infrastructure he helped design in order to streamline analytics as well as the latest tracking performance technologies in order to monitor the development of players.

Hecker joined the organization in November of 2003 as the HEAT’s Scouting Information Coordinator before being elevated to Scout in 2008. Three years later he was promoted to Director of Basketball Information and Technology/Scout, and in advance of the 2014-15 season he was named Director of Basketball Information and Technology/Player Development Coach. He then spent the next three seasons as the Director of Basketball Analytics and Performance Technology.

Prior to joining the HEAT, Hecker spent 11 seasons at the collegiate level, nine of which were as an assistant coach. Coaching stops included the University of Houston (2000-03) and the University of Wisconsin (1994-00) where he was a member of former HEAT coach Stan Van Gundy’s staff in 1994-95. Hecker began his collegiate coaching career as an administrative assistant on Stu Jackson’s staff at Wisconsin in 1992 and was promoted to assistant coach in 1994. During his 11 seasons on the collegiate level he helped guide his teams to seven postseason appearances (4-NCAA, 3-NIT), including the 2000 NCAA Final Four while an assistant under Head Coach Dick Bennett with the Badgers.

A 1990 graduate of Indiana University, Hecker began his coaching career at his alma mater, Nicolet High School, in Milwaukee during the 1991-92 season. The Milwaukee native has three children, Jessica, Benjamin and Thomas, and resides in Miami.