Alex Sarama is the founder of Transforming Basketball. He is widely regarded as an industry-leading practitioner within the field of contemporary skill acquisition and more specifically, the constraints-led approach. Sarama's bestselling Amazon book, Transforming Basketball, was released in April 2024. He has delivered clinics in over 40 countries around the world and worked as a coach developer for numerous organizations and international basketball federations. This includes work done in multiple sports outside of basketball.

Alex is currently Head Coach for the Portland Fire in the WNBA. He previously worked for the Cleveland Cavaliers, NBA Europe based in Madrid, as well as Paris Basketball in the EuroCup and the Rip City Remix (the Portland Trail Blazers’ G League Affiliate).

Seeing how much of an impact our community of coaches and practitioners are having on basketball at all levels of the game.

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Alex Sarama

Founder

Hometown & Country: Guildford, UK
Currently Living In: PORTLAND, USA

He spent a formative three years working at College Basket Borgomanero in Italy, where he first started sharing ideas on how to apply an ecological approach in multiple departments. It is these ideas which now form the basis of the Transforming approach. College Basket is now recognized as one of the top development programs in Italy, producing numerous Italian National Team players.

While no longer running Transforming on a daily basis, Alex’s ideas and vision underpins the principles being brought to life by the Transforming team, as well as inspiring the movement being explored by thousands of coaches around the world to change how basketball is coached.