Miami’s basketball staff is getting a bigger footprint with The Bahamas men’s national team, and Dame Wall is the latest Hurricanes voice to join the operation.
Wall, Miami’s assistant director of player development, has been named an assistant coach for The Bahamas during a key FIBA World Cup qualifying stretch. He steps into a setup that already includes another Miami connection in LJ Rose, who serves as both Miami’s general manager and The Bahamas national team general manager.
Rose has been tied to The Bahamas program since June 2022, when then-head coach Chris DeMarco brought him in as director of operations. He now holds the general manager role for the national team while keeping the same title with the Hurricanes.
The move gives The Bahamas another familiar face from Miami as it pushes through the first round of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup Americas Qualifiers. The program made a coaching change on June 10, naming Kentucky assistant Mikhail McLean its new head coach and replacing DeMarco. The Bahamas had come within one win of reaching the 2024 Olympics.
The qualifying window opened in emphatic fashion for The Bahamas, which rolled past Jamaica 123-74 on July 3 to improve to 2-3 in Group B. VJ Edgecombe led the way with 26 points, nine rebounds and five steals.
That result moved The Bahamas into second place behind Canada, which is 5-0 and already locked into a second-round berth. Jamaica also sits at 2-3, while Puerto Rico is 1-4.
The next test comes July 6, when The Bahamas hosts Puerto Rico. The top three teams in the group move on to the second round.
Wall’s rise to this role has been quick. He arrived at Miami as a graduate assistant in June 2023 and was later promoted to assistant director of player development. Before that, the Philadelphia native spent time with Impact Basketball in a 2024 internship that included NBA pre-draft workouts.
As a player, Wall was a point guard at West Chester from 2020 through 2023 and helped the program win a PSAC East title.
Mercer assistant Nashad Mackey was also added to The Bahamas staff. Mackey had previously worked with the national team during Olympic qualifying in 2024 and during World Cup and AmeriCup qualifying in 2025.
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