Joe Connelly, Assistant Coach
For two decades, Joe Connelly has helped develop many of the top high school, college and professional basketball players in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area.
Recognized for his work in developing young and rising basketball players, Connelly was named the Wizards' assistant coach/player development on January 25, 2012.
Over the past five offseasons, Connelly has conducted offseason player development programs for many NBA players, including Washington Wizards' guards John Wall and Roger Mason, Wizards' center Hamady Ndiaye and New York Knicks' forward Jared Jefferies.
During the 2010-11 season, Connelly worked in player development with the Dakota Wizards, the Wizards' NBA D-League affiliate. He tutored Ndiaye, who appeared in 11 games and averaged 4.0 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.6 blocks in 18.4 minutes per contest.
Prior to working in player development, Connelly launched the Baltimore Freedom Academy's high school basketball program and served as the team's head coach from 2005-2009. He also served as an AAU coach and was also instrumental in grassroots basketball programs throughout the Baltimore area from 2001-05.
For more than a decade, Connelly served as an assistant coach at Towson Catholic High School in Baltimore and tutored four-time All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks.
Connelly earned an undergraduate degree from Morgan State in 1995 in history and graduated with a master's degree in teaching from John Hopkins in 2000.
Connelly's brother, Pat, is the Wizards' director of player personnel and has been a member of the team's basketball operations department for six seasons. His brother, Tim, was named the assistant general manager of the New Orleans Hornets in 2010. Tim previously worked with the Wizards from 1999-2010, where he most recently served as Washington's director of player personnel.
Is he legit or did he only have a job with the Wizards through his brother?
