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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.
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. Lenny Wilkens has coached the most regular season games. He has coached 2,487 games with six teams in 32 seasons. Gregg Popovich has won the most regular season games with 1,388.
Popovich is the longest tenured active coach in the NBA as well as all other major sports leagues in the United States. Nicknamed "Coach Pop", Popovich has the most wins of any coach in NBA history, [2] [3] and is widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches in NBA history. [4] [5]
Each program employs a head coach. As of the 2024–25 season, the longest-tenured head coach is expected to be Greg Kampe, who has been head coach at Oakland since 1984. However, Kampe does not have the longest tenure at the Division I level because Oakland played in NCAA Division II before the 1997–98 season.
Wilkens went on to become the longest-tenured head coach in the league. In addition to 4 seasons as a player-coach, he spent another 28 seasons as a head coach, winning an NBA championship in 1979. [19]
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]
During Red Holzman's tenure, the franchise won its only two NBA championships, the 1970 NBA Finals and the 1973 NBA Finals. There have been 31 head coaches for the New York Knicks franchise. Holzman was the franchise's first Coach of the Year winner and is the team's all-time leader in regular season games coached, regular season games won ...
Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once. b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season. c Paul Silas has a combined total of 401 regular season games coached, with a W–L record of 193–208, for a .481 winning percentage during his non-consecutive tenures in Charlotte.