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Bill Russell won two NBA championships as a player-coach of the Boston Celtics. A player-coach is a member of team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. [1] The term can be used to refer to both players who serve as head coaches or as assistant coaches.
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. Former Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson has won eleven NBA championships, the most in NBA history.
Auerbach is the franchise's all-time leader in the number of regular-season and playoff wins as a coach. [2] Auerbach and Bill Fitch were included in the Top 10 Coaches in NBA history. [3] Fitch was the 1979–80 NBA Coach of the Year and also led the Celtics to a championship in 1981.
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 ]
Joseph Mazzulla (born June 30, 1988) is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for West Virginia University.
Bill Russell was a dominant center in the NBA in the 1960s. Russell played 13 championships with the Boston Celtics and won 11 titles. He was the first Black coach of an NBA team and the second ...
Kerr became the first person in NBA history to be a part of 70-win teams as a player and head coach and was named 2015–16 NBA Coach of the Year. [77] Kerr led the Warriors to the 2016 NBA Finals , where they would again face the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the Warriors lost in seven games despite a 3–1 lead.