Wizards assistant Adam Caporn is set to serve as the head coach for the Australian national team, Washington announced today in a press release.
As the Wizards’ statement notes, Caporn becomes the 12th head coach of the program. Since 2017, he had served as an assistant under previous head coach Brian Goorjian, who stepped away following the 2024 Paris Olympics. With Caporn on the staff, Australia claimed a bronze medal in the 2021 Tokyo games.
“I am deeply grateful to Basketball Australia for their trust in me and to the entire Australian basketball community for the invaluable experiences and opportunities I’ve had from grassroots development to the Olympic stage,” Caporn said in the press release. “ I’m excited to get to work, building a team that will represent Australia with pride and continue to strengthen the Boomers’ great legacy and culture.”
Caporn had been the head coach for the Nets’ NBAGL affiliate squad, the Long Island Nets, during the 2021/22 season, before moving on to work as an assistant coach for Brooklyn for two years from 2022-24.
He is in his first season under Wizards head coach Brian Keefe. Caporn had also worked as an assistant at Saint Mary’s College of California, his alma mater, from 2010-14.
Besides Caporn, Hawks head coach Quin Snyder, former Germany head coach Gordon Herbert, and veteran NBA assistant Will Weaver were said earlier this week to be among the candidates to take over for Goorjian as the new Boomers’ head coach.
Magic assistant Bret Brielmaier was a candidate too, according to Olgun Uluc of ESPN, who also reports that Snyder remains in talks for an advisory role with Basketball Australia moving forward.