The East Bay waves are an elite AAU basketball program in the San Ramon, Dublin, and Pleasanton areas. With our coaching staff consisting of former Division 1 basketball players, we are fortunate to give the kids the very best training in the area.

Coach Michael

Coaching Experience

2005-2011 Assistant coach of Beijing Aoshen (CBA, China)
2006-2011 Skill trainer of Sun Yue (LA Lakers), Songtao Zhang, Haibei Huang, Huo Nan (Chinese National Team players)
2011-2013 Los Angeles Summer Pro League - Head Coach of Team ETE
2011-2015 Head Coach of Elite Talent Exchange (professional travel team, played in China, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico)
2011-2015 Owner & Head Trainer of ETE Basketball Training Academy In SoCal
2019-2023 International Scout of Nanjing Tongxi Basketball Club (CBA, China)
2018-present East Bay Waves

Coach Michael’s coaching career began in 2005 with Beijing Aoshen Olympians, a pro team in the CBA (Chinse Basketball Association), China. This is the team that developed many players to play for the national team, including Sun Yue who made it to the NBA (LA Lakers). He had served as the skills trainer of Sun Yue for 4 years to work closely with his skill development while serving as the assistant coach of Beijing Aoshen (2005-2011). During these six years, he was very fortunate to spend time and learn from many great coaches like Phil Jackson (legendary NBA coach), Mike D'Antoni (great NBA coach), Pete Carril (legendary coach who invented Princeton Offense), Pete Newell (hall of fame coach, his Big Man Camp was the most popular training camp for NBA/college players every summer), Paul Coughter (FIBA Coach of the Year in 2006, legendary coach in Asia), Bill Tosheff (first NBA Rookie of the Year award winner, Indiana U. Basketball Hall of Famer), Fred Vinson (assistant coach of Detroit Pistons), etc.

From 2011 to 2015, Coach Michael was a FIBA agent and running his own basketball agency and skills academy in Southern California. Other than scouting and representing professional players/coaches to help them get contracts with the overseas clubs, he also did a lot of player development, camps, clinics for all levels from student athletes to pros here in the US, as well as many high school basketball camps and clinics in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Indonesia. During this period of time, he was also the coach of the sponsored professional travel team, Elite Talent Exchange, which they had done many international games in the countries like Mexico, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and China, and we also participated in Los Angeles Summer Pro League in three different years.

From 2018 to present, he has been the head coach and director of East Bay Waves to continue his coaching career and passing down the experience and knowledge that he has gained/learned throughout the fascinating journey to the younger generations. For close to 8 years of coaching in the East Bay area, Coach Michael has coached over 2000 games, helped hundreds of kids to make their high school teams, and guided them to the right paths to continue their life journeys.