About Coach Paul
Coach Paul Tran is the Owner and Head Trainer of Total Basketball Training. He holds an Associate Coach License from USA Basketball (License #41751540) and an Accredited Interscholastic Coach Certificate from the National Federation of State High School Associations (which licenses high school sports coaches).
Coach Paul played high school basketball at Long Beach Jordan and Long Beach Poly under programs led by legendary Southern California high school coaches Ron Massey and Ron Palmer, respectively. He also served as an assistant junior college basketball coach at the College of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay Area under Coach Robert Bishop and was a finalist for a video scouting position with the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers. He has also coached at the middle school, high school, YMCA, and FOR/CBO levels.
He holds a BA in History and MA in American Studies from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. Currently a high school AP English teacher in Long Beach, he has taught everywhere from UC Berkeley to East Oakland and UC Riverside to South Los Angeles. Coach Paul lives in Torrance with his wife, two sons, and dog.