David Blat & Derrick Sharp at Mike's Place Tel-Aviv
David Blatt is an American-Israeli professional basketball coach, and a former professional basketball player. Today, Blatt is one of the most successful American coaches in European basketball, and is currently the head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv and Russia national basketball team.
Derrick Sharp (born October 5, 1971) is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player, and current basketball assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Sharp was born in Orlando, Florida. He played college basketball with the University of South Florida, and then went to Israel to play basketball in 1993.
He played for the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club for 15 years, part of the time as team captain, and now serves as assistant coach under David Blatt. With Maccabi, he won a record 27 trophies. In July 2011, Sharp retired as a player.[1] He will remain with Maccabi Tel Aviv as an assistant coach.