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Loughery served as the head coach for six NBA teams during his 18-year coaching career, including a year as a player-coach. [23] Wilkens and Holzman were named among the Top 10 Coaches in NBA History announced at the league's 50th anniversary in 1996. [ 24 ]
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.
Winningest coach in NBA history (1,335 wins) at time of induction; three-time NBA Coach of the Year (1983, 1985, 1992); 18 consecutive postseason appearances; one of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA History (1996); also coached USA men to World Championship gold in 1994 [99] United States 2013: Sylvia Hatchell
Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American former basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team" for which he was an assistant coach.
1969–70 NBA Coach of the Year 2 championships (1970, 1973) One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history [4] [3] 10 Willis Reed: 1977–1978: 96 49 47 .510 6 2 4 .333 [20] — Red Holzman † 1978–1982: 314 147 167 .468 2 0 2 .000 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history [4] [3] 11 Hubie Brown: 1982–1986: 344 142 202 .413 18 8 10 .444 [21] 12 ...
NBA Coach of the Year ; 11× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1957–1967) NBA anniversary team (25th, 35th) Top 10 Coaches in NBA History; Top 15 Coaches in NBA History; No. 2 retired by Boston Celtics; As executive: 7× NBA champion (1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1986) NBA Executive of the Year ; Career coaching record; NBA: 938–479 (.662)
Gene Shue is the only Wizards coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award; he won it twice, in 1969 and 1982. [6] No Wizards coach has been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach, but four have been elected into the Hall of Fame as a player: Jim Pollard, Buddy Jeannette, K. C. Jones and Wes Unseld.
Jack Ramsay, Larry Brown, and Bobby Leonard are the only Pacers' coaches to be elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. [8] [9] Ramsay was also named one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. [10] Jack McKinney and Larry Bird have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, in 1980–81 and 1997–98, respectively, with the Pacers. [11]