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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.
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.
This category lists the basketball head coaches that won the NBA Finals. Pages in category "NBA championship–winning head coaches" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Year Western champion Coach Result Eastern champion Coach Finals MVP [a] Ref; Basketball Association of America (BAA) 1947: Chicago Stags (1) (1, 0–1): Harold Olsen: 1–4
Former head coach Bill Sharman led the team to the NBA Championship in 1972. Jerry West was head coach of the Lakers for three seasons. Pat Riley coached the team to four championships in the 1980s.
Only one of the Mavericks coaches, Don Nelson, has been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. [8] Rick Carlisle, who was the head coach of the Mavericks from 2008 to 2021, led the Mavericks to the franchise's first NBA Championship in its second Finals appearance, and defeated the Miami Heat in six games in the 2011 NBA Finals.
Tyronn Lue is the only coach to lead the Cavaliers to an NBA championship, in 2016. Chuck Daly, Wilkens and Fitch have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as head coaches, partly due to their work with the Cavaliers. [6] [7] Fitch, Daly and Wilkens were also named as 3 of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. [8]
Since the team was formed in 1968, there have been 15 head coaches for the Bucks franchise. [1] The franchise won its first NBA championship in the 1971 NBA Finals under the leadership of its first coach, Larry Costello , and another in the 2021 NBA Finals under Coach Mike Budenholzer (the only other Bucks' coach other than Don Nelson to have ...