New Zealand Breakers' championship-winning coach Andrej Lemanis on brink of Boomers role New Zealand Breakers head coach Andrej Lemanis looks likely to be named head coach of the Boomers tomorrow. NEW Zealand Breakers' three-time NBL championship coach and Boomers assistant Andrej Lemanis is poised to be named head coach of the Australian men's basketball team for the next four years. Basketball Australia (BA) will tomorrow announce Brett Brown's successor and Lemanis is favourite for the job after taking the Breakers to their third consecutive championship a fortnight ago and also sitting beside Brown at the London Olympics. BA has a history of elevating assistants, which it only diverged from after the Sydney 2000 Olympics when Brown, then Barry Barnes' assistant, was overlooked in favour of Phil Smyth, and then Brian Goorjian. Brown followed Goorjian as Australia's coach for the 2010 world championships and last year's London Olympics, then surprised many by stepping aside when another four-year contract seemed a formality. Lemanis and his NBL grand final opponent Rob Beveridge at Perth, were leading contenders for the vacancy but with the Breakers also scheduling an announcement of their new coaching panel tomorrow, Lemanis looks set to be promoted to the Boomers' top job. "It's certainly not me," Wildcats coach Beveridge said today. Dean Vickerman, highly-regarded as one of the sport's best coaching minds and Lemanis' long-time assistant at the Breakers, is expected to be promoted into the main job with the NBL champion. An NBL championship-winner as a player under Goorjian at South East Melbourne in 1992 and an assistant coach to Ian Stacker at Townsville for seven years, Lemanis held the reins at the Breakers for eight years. He succeeded in turning around the team's culture, one of his first and gutsiest decisions as the new head coach to cut Tall Blacks icon Pero Cameron. Sending a clear message a new regime was in place, Lemanis was at the forefront of changing the club's fortunes, culminating in a breakthrough NBL title in 2011 and follow up championships in the two subsequent seasons. He had the unqualified support of senior players such as Dillon Boucher, CJ Bruton, Mika Vukona, Daryl Corletto, imports Cedric Jackson and Will Hudson, and burgeoning talents Tom Abercrombie and Alex Pledger, the quintessential example of a team with everyone on the same page. Lemanis will become only Australia's 11th head coach, following Ken Watson (1956, 1968), Eric Erkens (1960), Keith Miller (1964), John Raschke (1970), Lindsay Gaze (1972-1984), Adrian Hurley (1988-1992), Barry Barnes (1996, 2000), Phil Smyth (2001-02), Brian Goorjian (2004-2008) and Brown (2010-12). Players such as the NBA's Andrew Bogut, Patrick Mills and Aron Baynes, along with our stars in Europe such as Joe Ingles and Brad Newley, all are expected to be available for selection for next year's world championship and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.