Pero Cameron
Gold Coast Rollers | |
2022 | Taranaki Airs (assistant) |
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2022–2023 | Brisbane Bullets (assistant) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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As head coach:
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FIBA Hall of Fame as player | |
Medals |
Sean Pero MacPherson Cameron
Professional career
New Zealand NBL
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cameron played for
NBL Championships (as player): | 9 – Auckland (1995–1997, 1999, 2000), Waikato (2001, 2002, 2008, 2009) |
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NBL Championships (as coach): | 2 – Wellington (2010, 2011) |
NBL Rookie of the Year :
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1992 |
NBL All-Star Five: | 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 |
Kiwi MVP: | 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999 |
Outstanding Kiwi Forward: | 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 |
Outstanding Forward: | 1998 |
Rebound Champion: | 1993 |
Coach of the Year: | 2010 |
Australian NBL
Cameron played five seasons in the Australian National Basketball League, two for the New Zealand Breakers and three for the Gold Coast Blaze. He played for both clubs in their respective inaugural seasons (Breakers in 2003–04 and Blaze in 2007–08). In a total of 130 ANBL games, he averaged 8.7 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game.[2]
Overseas
Cameron played six and a half seasons overseas; one for the Ipoh Red Eagles of Malaysia in 1995–96, four for the
National team career
Cameron was first selected for the
Cameron retired from international duties having played in two
In August 2017, Cameron became the first New Zealander to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame as a player,[3] with the official ceremony occurring on 30 September 2017 in Switzerland.[4]
Coaching career
Cameron began his
In June 2011, Cameron was named an assistant coach of the Tall Blacks.[5]
After two more seasons as the Saints' head coach, Cameron joined his beloved Waikato Pistons as the team's head coach/player development manager for the 2014 season.[6] However, in November 2014, the Pistons pulled out of the 2015 season due to financial reasons and he subsequently returned to the Saints head coaching position on a one-year deal on 14 January 2015.[7]
On 9 December 2015, Cameron joined the
In December 2019, after eight years of being an assistant, Cameron was appointed head coach of the Tall Blacks.[10][11][12] In September 2021, he was reappointed Tall Blacks coach for three years.[13]
In October 2021, Cameron signed a one-year deal to be director of basketball for the Taranaki Airs.[14] He also served as the team's assistant coach in 2022.[15]
In December 2022, Cameron was appointed assistant coach of the Brisbane Bullets for the rest of the 2022–23 NBL season.[16] He parted ways with the Bullets following the season.[17]
Personal life
Cameron's mother, Mata, from the Māori Ngāpuhi iwi,[18] is an ex-New Zealand representative and a long-time coach of New Zealand age groups. His father is Scottish.[19][20] His sister, Jody, is a former Tall Fern, and represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.[21] His brother, Ray, is a former Waikato Titans/Pistons player. His other sisters, Jeannie and Zeta, also played basketball at a high level.[22]
Cameron and his wife Jennelle have three children.
Honours
- 2002
- Maori Sportsman of the Year – 2002
- Sparc Leadership Award – 2003
- Commonwealth Games Silver – 2006
- Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to basketball – 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours.[25][26]
- Inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame – 2017
References
- ^ SportRITE - Two good reasons for keeping our stars here
- ^ Player statistics for Pero Cameron
- ^ Tall Blacks legend Pero Cameron first New Zealander to make Fiba's Hall of Fame
- ^ Pero Cameron inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame as family celebrate with a haka
- ^ Cameron takes Tall Blacks coaching role
- ^ Pero Cameron the man Pistons can look up to
- ^ Pero Cameron to return as Wellington Saints coach for NBL
- ^ Pero Cameron accepts the job of coach with the Gold Coast Rollers for next QBL season
- ^ The future’s looking reel bright for Adekponya on the Gold Coast
- ^ Kiwi hoops legend Pero Cameron likely to get nod as interim Tall Blacks coach
- ^ New Tall Blacks coach Pero Cameron says he'll ask Steven Adams to end his exile
- ^ PROUD AND HUMBLED PERO CAMERON NAMED AS TALL BLACKS HEAD COACH
- ^ Kiwi hoops legend Pero Cameron confirmed to remain as Tall Blacks head coach
- ^ Tall Blacks coach scores role with Taranaki Mountainairs
- ^ Tuatara vs Airs
- ^ "Pero Cameron joins Bullets as Assistant Coach". brisbanebullets.com.au. 27 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ Pike, Chris (24 February 2023). "Boomers boss linked with new gig; Brisbane keen to put 'frustrating' season to bed: NBL Talking Pts". foxsports.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
Things have been just as eventual now in the weeks after the season with Melbourne United assistant Justin Schueller named the new head coach while assistants Peter Crawford and Pero Cameron have moved on.
- ^ Smith, Tony (12 February 2021). "Māori Sports Awards: Lisa Carrington judged most influential Māori sports star since 1991". stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ Kiwi Olympians: Pero Cameron
- ^ Basketball: Auckland win battle to re-sign Cameron
- ^ Jody Cameron – olympic.org.nz
- ^ Pero Cameron: Big man, big impact
- ^ Pero Cameron heading in a new direction
- ^ Wynyard among four big Junior Tall Blacks for Cairo 2017
- ^ Jeffries, Rob (15 June 2011). "Basketball: Former Jets skipper Pero Cameron honoured by Queen". ChesterChronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ Worthington, Sam (16 June 2011). "Pero Cameron gets Tall Blacks promotion". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2015.