{{Short description|American professional basketball coach (born 1952)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2010}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Rod Baker | image = | alt = | caption = | league = | team = | position = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|3|18}} | birth_place = | college = [[Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball|Holy Cross]] (1970–1974) | coach_start = 1976 | cyears1 = 1976–1977 | cteam1 = [[Brown Bears men's basketball|Brown]] (assistant) | cyears2 = 1977–1979 | cteam2 = [[Columbia Lions men's basketball|Columbia]] (assistant) | cyears3 = 1979–1982 | cteam3 = [[Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball|Saint Joseph's]] (assistant) | cyears4 = 1983–1988 | cteam4 = [[Tufts Jumbos men's basketball|Tufts]] | cyears5 = 1988–1991 | cteam5 = [[Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball|Seton Hall]] (assistant) | cyears6 = 1991–1997 | cteam6 = [[UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball|UC Irvine]] | cyears7 = 1997–2000 | cteam7 = [[Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball|Cincinnati]] (assistant) | cyears8 = 2000–2001 | cteam8 = [[Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball|Rutgers]] (associate HC) | cyears9 = 2002–2003 | cteam9 = [[Grand Rapids Hoops]] | cyears10 = 2003–2005 | cteam10 = [[Harlem Globetrotters]] | cyears11 = 2005–2012 | cteam11 = [[Rochester Razorsharks]] | cyears12 = 2012–2013 | cteam12 = [[Bakersfield Jam]] (assistant) | cyears13 = 2013–2014 | cteam13 = [[Delaware 87ers]] | cyears14 = 2021–2024 | cteam14 = [[NBA G League Ignite]] (assistant) <!--| overall_record = 124–168 (College)--> | bowl_record = | tournament_record = | championships = | awards = *[[Big West Conference|Big West]] Coach of the Year (1996) *[[ABA Coach of the Year Award|ABA]] Coach of the Year (2006) *2× PBA Coach of the Year (2008, 2009) | coaching_records = | highlights = **[[American Basketball Association (2000–present)|ABA]] champion (2006) *3× [[Premier Basketball League|PBL]] champion (2008, 2009, 2011) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's [[basketball]] }} {{MedalCountry | {{flagu|United States}} }} {{MedalCompetition | [[Universiade|World University Games]] }} {{MedalGold | [[1993 Summer Universiade|1993 Buffalo]] | [[Basketball at the 1993 Summer Universiade|Team competition]] }} {{MedalSport|[[United States men's national basketball team|men's national basketball team]]}} {{MedalSport|Assistant Coach for {{flagu|United States}} }} {{MedalGold | [[1995 Summer Universiade|1995 Tokyo]] | [[Basketball at the 1995 Summer Universiade|Team competition]] }} }} '''Rod Baker''' (born March 18, 1952) is an American professional basketball coach who last served as an assistant coach for the [[NBA G League Ignite]] of the [[NBA G League]].
==College career== Baker played basketball at the [[College of the Holy Cross]] in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1970 to 1974. While playing, he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and was an Education Minor.
==Head coaching record== {{CBB yearly record start | type =coach | conference = | postseason=}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name =[[Tufts Jumbos men's basketball|Tufts Jumbos]] | conference=[[New England Small College Athletic Conference]] | startyear =1983 | endyear =1988 }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1983–84 | name = {{cbb link|year=1983|sex=men|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}} | overall = 12–12 | conference = – | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1984–85 | name = {{cbb link|year=1984|sex=men|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}} | overall = 15–10 | conference = – | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1985–86 | name = {{cbb link|year=1985|sex=men|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}} | overall = 15–10 | conference = – | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1986–87 | name = {{cbb link|year=1986|sex=men|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}} | overall = 14–11 | conference = – | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1987–88 | name = {{cbb link|year=1987|sex=men|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}} | overall = 16–9 | conference = – | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal | name = Tufts | overall = 72–52 | confrecord = – }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name =[[UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball|UC Irvine Anteaters]] | conference=[[Big West Conference]] | startyear =1991 | endyear =1997 }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1991–92 | name = [[1991–92 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team|UC Irvine]] | overall = 7–22 | conference = 3–15 | confstanding = 9th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1992–93 | name = [[1992–93 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team|UC Irvine]] | overall = 6–21 | conference = 4–14 | confstanding = 8th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1993–94 | name = [[1993–94 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team|UC Irvine]] | overall = 10–20 | conference = 4–14 | confstanding = 10th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1994–95 | name = [[1994–95 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team|UC Irvine]] | overall = 13–16 | conference = 6–12 | confstanding = 8th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1995–96 | name = [[1995–96 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team|UC Irvine]] | overall = 15–12 | conference = 11–7 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1996–97 | name = [[1996–97 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team|UC Irvine]] | overall = 1–25 | conference = 1–15 | confstanding = 9th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal | name = UC Irvine | overall = 52–116 | confrecord = 29–77 }}
{{CBB yearly record end | overall = 124–168 }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://basketball.usbasket.com/coach/Rod_Baker/1587 Profile] at Eurobasket.com
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