Brad Leaf

Brad Leaf (Hebrew: ברד ליף; born May 17, 1960) is an American-Israeli basketball coach and former player.

[3] Leaf led all Marion County, Indiana, scorers as a senior at Lawrence North in 1978 with a 25.5-point average, with a single-game high of 38 points.

[3][2][10] As a sophomore, he averaged 16.2 points per game and set the then-Evansville season free throw percentage record at 81.1 percent.

[11] In 1981–82, he scored 17.6 points per game (for the second consecutive year), leading the school to a 19–9 record and its first NCAA Division I tournament.

[3] Leaf briefly played for the La Crosse Catbirds of the Continental Basketball Association before embarking on a professional career in Israel.

He played for 12 years for Hapoel Galil Elyon, alongside such players as Nadav Henefeld, Doron Sheffer, Andrew Kennedy, and Mike Gibson, and later for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israel Premier League and Euroleague.

Beginning in the 2005–06 season, Leaf has coached at Foothills Christian High School in El Cajon, California, leading the team to seven titles through 2020.

[22] He coached his son T. J. at Foothills Christian in high school, with T.J. as a senior in 2015–16 averaging 28.4 points, 12.4 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 3.2 steals per game.