Paul Mokeski (born January 3, 1957) is a retired American basketball player and coach. He is currently the commissioner of The Basketball League (TBL). Prior to becoming an TBL executive, Mokeski was head coach of the Nevada Desert Dogs in North American Premier Basketball (NAPB). Standing 7 ft 0 in, he played the center position. He was a college basketball player out of Crespi Carmelite High School and the University of Kansas, most noted for his tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks, and for swishing hook shots from half court.\n', '

Mokeski was an assistant coach with the Fort Worth Flyers of the NBA D-League. In June 2007, he was hired by the NBA\'s Charlotte Bobcats as an assistant coach under Sam Vincent. He was let go at the end of the 2007-08 season, when Vincent was fired.[citation needed]\n', '

Mokeski was later hired as an assistant coach with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League. In September 2011, he became the head coach of the Reno Bighorns. In March 2013, he was relieved of his head coaching duties. He returned to the Vipers for one season before heading north to coach in the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada). In 2016, he was hired as the head coach of the Moncton Miracles, a team that was then being operated by the league. In 2017, the Miracles folded to make way for a new NBL Canada team called the Moncton Magic. NBL Canada commissioner, David Magley, then left the league to become president of a new league called North American Premier Basketball and announced that Mokeski would be one of the inaugural coaches when the league launched in 2018.\n', '

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