He was formerly a Pro Player Personnel Scout for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) .
He previously had coaching terms with the Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Sacramento Kings, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Toronto Raptors.
[8] Prior to the NBA, Kalamian worked for two seasons as an assistant at his former school, East Los Angeles College.
As a player, he was named team captain at East Los Angeles where he led the South Coast Conference in three-point shooting percentage during the 1988–89 season.
An Armenian-American, Kalamian attended East Los Angeles College, but graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor's degree in business management.