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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.
He received the NBA Coach of the Year Award and become the first black man to win NBA coach of the year after guiding the Pistons to a then-franchise-best 52–30 regular season record in 1973–74. [7] The team slumped to 40–42 in 1974–75. He was dismissed and replaced by assistant Herb Brown with the Pistons at 17–25 on January 26, 1976 ...
The league adopted its current name at the start of the 1949–50 season when it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL). [2] The league consists of 30 teams, of which 29 are located in the United States and one in Canada. In the NBA, a head coach is the highest ranking coach of a coaching staff. They typically hold a more public ...
On April 16, 1966, Russell agreed to become head coach of the Celtics, and a public announcement was made two days later. [111] Russell became the first black head coach in NBA history, [6] and he commented to journalists: "I wasn't offered the job because I am a Negro, I was offered it because Red figured I could do it." [110]
As coach: NBA All-Star Game head coach ; Career NBA playing statistics; Points: 18,822 (19.2 ppg) Assists: 9,061 (9.3 apg) Steals: 1,861 (1.9 spg) Stats at NBA.com Stats at Basketball Reference Career coaching record; NBA: 187–223 (.456) College: 26–65 (.286) Record at Basketball Reference Basketball Hall of Fame: Collegiate Basketball Hall ...
He also has the record of most game wins when combining regular season and postseason games with 1,558 wins. Larry Brown has coached 9 different teams, the highest number of teams coached among the head coaches. [3] Former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson won 11 NBA championships, the most in NBA history. He is the ...
Sampson was also the head coach of the United States Junior National Team that participated in the Junior World Games in Athens, Greece, in the summer of 1995. In the summer of 1994, Sampson was selected to coach at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia. He served as an assistant to former Southern California head coach George Raveling ...
The 1984 squad, led by 7-foot (2.1 m) center Patrick Ewing, won the Division I national championship over Houston, and Thompson became the first African-American coach to lead his team to the title. [3] Two years earlier, Thompson had become the first Black coach to advance their team to the Final Four.