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Richie Guerin had coached 372 games as a player-coach, the most among the other player-coaches. He was the player-coach of the St. Louis / Atlanta Hawks for five seasons, from 1964 to 1967 and from 1968 to 1970. Before the 1967–68 season, he retired from playing to become a full-time head coach.
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
NBA champion as a player with the 76ers in 1967. NBA champion as a coach with the Bucks in 1971. Six-time NBA All-Star. [84] 2022: Delmer "Del" Harris: Coach or assistant coach at the collegiate, professional and international levels from 1965 to 2012, including six NBA teams. Named 1995 Coach of the Year with the Los Angeles Lakers. John Bunn ...
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 ]
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.
In just over two decades, Kobe Bryant won five NBA championships, earned two NBA Finals MVP awards and became an 18-time NBA All-Star. His 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors was one of the ...
1964–65 NBA Coach of the Year One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history [3] [5] 4 Bill Russell † 1966–1969 (as player-coach) 245 162 83 .661 18 12 6 .667 2 championships (1968, 1969) [7] 5 Tom Heinsohn *† 1969–1978: 690 427 263 .619 80 47 33 .588 1972–73 NBA Coach of the Year 2 championships (1974, 1976) [8] 6 Tom Sanders * 1978: 62 ...