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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.
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
Coaching career: 1966–1999: Career history; As player: 1964–1966: Boston Celtics: As coach: 1966–1972: St. Anthony HS: 1972–1999: Georgetown: Career highlights and awards; As player: 2× NBA champion (1965, 1966) Honorable mention All-American - AP ; Second-team Parade All-American (1960) As coach: NCAA Division I tournament champion
Attles’ 64-year stint with the Warriors is the longest with a single franchise for one person in league history. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Al Attles, a Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA ...
[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 ...
Al Attles, a Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA champion Warriors and spent more than six decades with the organization as a player, general manager and most recently team ambassador, has died.
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 ...
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 ...