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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra is the second longest-tenured NBA head coach, having been head coach of the Heat since the 2008–09 season. Popovich is the only active head coach inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. [1] He is the only current head coach to have been hired by his current team in the 1990s.
1 of 9 NBA Head Coaches with over 1000 wins. United States 2021: Cotton Fitzsimmons: 2x NBA Coach of the Year United States 2021: Bill Russell: First black head coach in NBA history, and the first to win an NBA title. 2 NBA Championships with the Boston Celtics (1968, 1969). United States 2021: Jay Wright
In the NBA, a head coach is the highest ranking coach of a coaching staff. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than the assistant coaches. Former Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson has won eleven NBA championships, the most in NBA history.
Al Attles, a Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA champion Warriors and spent more than six decades with the organization as a player, general manager and most recently team ambassador, has died.
Bill Russell, a Boston Celtics legend who won 11 championships during his career and served as the first Black head coach of any professional U.S. sports team, died Sunday. He was 88. Russell’s ...
[186] [187] His stint as coach of the Celtics was also of historical significance, [188] [189] as he became the first black head coach in the NBA, [14] when he succeeded Red Auerbach. [ 190 ] [ 191 ] In his first NBA full season (1957–58), Russell became the first player in NBA history to average more than 20 rebounds per game for an entire ...
Attles’ 64-year stint with the Warriors is the longest with a single franchise for one person in league history. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Al Attles, a Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA ...
There have been 26 head coaches for the Lakers since joining the NBA. The franchise's first head coach while in the NBA was John Kundla, who coached for 11 seasons with the Lakers. [1] The Lakers won four additional NBA championships in the next five years under Kundla. [1]