Octavio De La Grana

{{short description|Cuban-American basketball coach|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Octavio De La Grana

| image =

| caption =

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| team = Miami Heat

| position = Assistant coach

| league = NBA

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|01|28}}

| birth_place = Havana, Cuba[http://hispanos.about.com/od/Basquetbol/a/Octavio-De-La-Grana-El-Hispano-De-Los-Miami-Heat.htm Octavio de la Grana, el hispano de los Miami HEAT]

| nationality = American / Cuban

| high_school = Florida Christian School
(Olympia Heights, Florida)

| college = Liberty

| coach_start = 1996

| coach_end =

| cyears1 = 1996

| cteam1 = Florida Christian School

| cyears2 = 1998–2004

| cteam2 = Westminster Christian School

| cyears3 = 2005

| cteam3 = Florida Christian School

| cyears4 = {{nbay|2006|start}}–{{nbay|2008|end}}

| cteam4 = Miami Heat (scout)

| cyears5 = {{nbay|2009|start}}–{{nbay|2009|end}}

| cteam5 = Miami Heat (player development)

| cyears11 = {{nbay|2010|start}}–{{nbay|2011|end}}

| cteam11 = Miami Heat (assistant)

| cyears12 = 2013–2016

| cteam12 = Sioux Falls Skyforce (assistant)

| cyears13 = {{nbay|2016|start}}–present

| cteam13 = Miami Heat (assistant)

|highlights =

As head coach:

FHSAA Class 2A State championship (1996)
FHSAA Class 2A Coach of the Year (1996)

As assistant coach:

NBA champion ({{nbafy|2012}})
NBA D-League champion (2016)

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Octavio De La Grana (born January 28, 1961) is a Cuban-American basketball coach, currently working as an assistant coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Coaching career

By 2006, De La Grana had a combined 21 years of head coaching experience at the high school level, including two stints at Florida Christian School, where he led his team to the FHSAA Class 2A State Championship in 1996,{{Cite web |url=http://www.fhsaa.org/records |title=FHSAA.org | FHSAA Championship Record Books |access-date=November 5, 2016 |archive-date=December 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208025513/http://www.fhsaa.org/records |url-status=dead }} a season in which he garnered Coach of the Year honors. He also spent eight years as head basketball coach at Westminster Christian High School.[http://www.nba.com/heat/contact/directorydelagranahtml/ Octavio De La Grana], Miami Heat Profile In 2005, he recorded his 400th high school coaching victory. During his tenure at Florida Christian, De La Grana also spent time as the school's Athletic Director (1990–95) and faculty Department Chair for Physical Education.[http://www.nba.com/coachfile/octavio_de_la_grana/?nav=page Octavio De La Grana], NBA Profile

=Miami Heat=

De La Grana began working with the Miami Heat prior to the 2006–07 season.[http://www.nba.pr/dleague/siouxfalls/octavio_de_la_grana.html Octavio De La Grana], NBA D-League Profile[https://www.liberty.edu/journal/article/champions-for-christ-8/ Alumnus works as player development coach for NBA champion Miami Heat] Before the start of the 2016–17 season, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra added De La Grana to his coaching staff as assistant coach.{{cite web|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/sfl-miami-heat-octavio-de-la-grana-s092216-story.html|publisher=sun-sentinel.com|title=Spoelstra makes De La Grana an assistant; Anthony Carter added as Heat D-League assistant|date=September 22, 2016 |access-date=November 5, 2016}}

Personal life

De la Grana was born in Havana, Cuba in 1961 and was only 6 years old when he came to the United States. His father was from Lajas and mother from Artemisa. De La Grana and his wife, Angie, reside in Palmetto Bay with their six children.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}