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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 ...
[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 ...
[32] He became the franchise's sixth African-American head coach, as well as the first head coach of African origin in NBA history. [33] Udoka in 2022. Although the Celtics began the 2021–22 season with an 18–21 record, they began a turnaround in January and finished as the #2-seed in the Eastern Conference with a 51–31 record.
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
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 ...
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 ...
Sixteen years removed from his previous NBA coaching job, Brown was again tapped to be a head coach in the NBA 2002–03 season by Jerry West of the Memphis Grizzlies, who fired coach Sidney Lowe after an 0–8 start. The Grizzlies' choice of Brown was quite controversial at the time; Hubie Brown was the oldest coach in the NBA at the age of 69 ...