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Popovich has also coached more games (2,209), won more games (1,388), and lost more games (821) than any other active head coach has with his current team. 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 .
Don Nelson, Bill Fitch, Jerry Sloan and Larry Brown are the only other coaches who have coached more than 2,000 regular season games. 33 other head coaches have coached more than 1,000 regular season games. Three of those coaches, Popovich, Al Attles and Erik Spoelstra, have spent their entire coaching career with one team.
He is the first men's coach to win 1,000 NCAA Division I basketball games. On April 6, 2015, Krzyzewski won his fifth NCAA championship, when Duke defeated Wisconsin in the title game. Winning against Yale in the 2016 NCAA tournament on March 19, Krzyzewski became the all-time winningest coach in the NCAA Division I tournament with 90 total wins.
James Naismith. James Naismith ( NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was an American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. [ 1][ 2][ 3] After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of ...
Richie Guerin had coached 372 games as a player-coach, the most among the other player-coaches. He was the player-coach of the St. Louis / Atlanta Hawks for five seasons, from 1964 to 1967 and from 1968 to 1970. Before the 1967–68 season, he retired from playing to become a full-time head coach.
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach. Richard Andrew Pitino ( / pɪˈtiːnoʊ /; born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach who is the head men's basketball coach at St. John's University. He was also the head coach of Greece's senior national team.
Basketball Hall of Fame. Inducted in 2016 ( profile) Thomas Michael Izzo[ 1] ( / ˈɪzoʊ /, Italian pronunciation: [ˈittso] ); born January 30, 1955) is an American college basketball coach who has been the head coach at Michigan State University since 1995. [ 2] On April 4, 2016, Izzo was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Al McGuire. Alfred James McGuire (September 7, 1928 – January 26, 2001) was an American college basketball coach and broadcaster, the head coach at Marquette University from 1964 to 1977. He won a national championship in his final season at Marquette, [ 1] and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992.