Larry Shyatt

Lawrence Alan Shyatt (born April 8, 1951) is an American basketball coach. He last served as an assistant coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Shyatt was previously head coach at the University of Wyoming in the 1997–98 season, the head coach at Clemson University from 1998 to 2003 and again head coach of Wyoming from 2011 to 2016. He also previously served as an assistant coach at the University of Florida. He was the 1998 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) District 13 Coach of the Year as head coach at Wyoming, the 1998 Western Athletic Conference Mountain Division Coach of the Year, and was named four times as the Top Assistant Coach in the Nation by the Basketball Times.

Early and personal life, and education Shyatt is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and is Jewish. His parents were George and Doris (née Swirsky) Shyatt. He played high school basketball at Cleveland Heights High School, and graduated in 1969. Shyatt graduated from the Wooster in 1973, with a bachelor's degree in physical education.

He and his wife Pam have three sons; Jeremy, Geoffrey, and Philip.

NBA On July 1, 2016, the Dallas Mavericks announced Shyatt would join their coaching staff as an assistant, with a primary focus of working with the big men on the roster. On June 18, 2018, the Mavericks announced Shyatt would be moving from behind the bench to replace Kaleb Canales, who had taken an assistant coaching job with the New York Knicks.

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