Hernando Planells has one of the most diverse backgrounds in basketball in both coaching and player development.

He has coached at every level, most recently as an assistant coach for the Duke women’s program. Plannells coached with the Maine Red Claws in the NBA Development League and founded ELITE athlete training, which specialized in personal training and consulting services for athletes. Through his work with ELITE, he trained and assisted over 100 athletes reach their goal of gaining a college scholarship or playing professionally.

From 2005-10, Planells served as a scout for Marty Blake, who is the Director of Scouting for the NBA. In his role as a scout, Planells put together scouting reports evaluating NBA prospects which were circulated to every NBA general manager and player personnel director. He was a head coach in the Basketball Japan League and led two minor league pro teams as their head coach.

From 2003-05, Planells served as an assistant coach for Citrus College in California. He was both an assistant and a head coach at the high school level early in his career. His work on the court led him to the “big screen” where he choreographed and consulted on the basketball scenes and trained the actors in movies such as “Coach Carter”, “The Longest Yard”, “Rebound”, “Spider-Man 3”, “Semi-Pro” and others. He also trained the athletes of “Extreme Dodgeball”, the highest rated show on the Game Show Network and has appeared on SPIKE TV's smash hit SLAMBALL as the head coach for the Bouncers.

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