Facts: - career end: 1993 - height in: 3.5 - cteam: hapoel -lrb- israel -rrb- -lrb- assistant -rrb- hapoel galil elyon -lrb- galil israel -rrb- israel under-22 -lrb- assistant -rrb- israel -lrb- assistant elyon -rrb- maccabi tel aviv -lrb- israel -rrb- -lrb- assistant -rrb- -lrb- maccabi tel aviv -lrb- israel -rrb- maccabi tel aviv -lrb- israel israel -rrb- -lrb- assistant -rrb- israel dynamo st. petersburg -lrb- -rrb- russia -rrb- benetton treviso -lrb- italy -rrb- russia efes pilsen hapoel -lrb- turkey -rrb- dynamo moscow -lrb- russia -rrb- aris thessaloniki galil -lrb- greece -rrb- maccabi tel aviv -lrb- israel -rrb- cleveland elyon cavaliers - team: cleveland league hapoel jerusalem -lrb- israel -rrb- maccabi netanya -lrb- israel cavaliers -rrb- hapoel galil elyon -lrb- israel -rrb- hapoel jerusalem -lrb- maccabi israel -rrb- ironi nahariya -lrb- israel -rrb- maccabi hadera -lrb- haifa israel -rrb- -lrb- israel -rrb- atlanta pro-am - birth date: 22 may 1959 - caption: blatt with the cavaliers in october 2014 . - draft year: 1981 - college: princeton -lrb- 1977 -- 1981 -rrb- - cyears: 1993 1996 -- 1997 1997 -- 2001 1999 -- 2001 2001 -- -- 2003 2003 -- 2004 2004 -- 2005 2004 -- 1994 2005 2005 -- 2007 2006 -- 2012 2007 -- 2008 1994 2008 -- 2009 2010 2010 -- 2014 2014 -- present -- 1995 1995 -- 1999 - name: david blatt - birth place: boston , massachusetts - position: head coach - high school: framingham south -lrb- framingham , massachusetts -rrb- - career start: 1981 - image size: 230px - nationality: american / israeli - career position: point guard - years: 1981 1987 -- 1989 1989 -- 1990 1990 -- 1991 1991 -- -- 1992 1992 -- 1993 1984 1984 -- 1986 1986 -- 1987 - league: nba - height ft: 6 - image: file : david blatt cavs 2014.jpg - coach start: 1993 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of david blatt .
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david michael blatt -lrb- born may 22 , 1959 -rrb- is an israeli-american professional basketball coach , and a former professional basketball player .he is the current head coach of the cleveland cavaliers .blatt played point guard at princeton university from 1977 to 1981 , and played in the maccabiah games for the usa national team that won a gold medal in 1981 .he then played professional basketball in israel for nine of the next 12 years , before an injury ended his playing career and he began coaching full-time .he is one of the most successful american coaches in european basketball history .as a coach , blatt has been the israeli league coach of the year four times -lrb- 1996 , 2002 , 2011 , and 2014 -rrb- , the russian super league coach of the year -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , and the euroleague coach of the year -lrb- 2014 -rrb- .blatt took over as cleveland 's head coach in 2014 , and his lifetime .639 winning percentage after the 2014 -- 15 season was the best of any cavaliers head coach in team history .