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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.
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. However, he came back from retirement to play in the following two seasons while still serving as the Hawks' head coach. [16]
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.
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 ...
There have been 24 head coaches for the Wizards franchise. The franchise's first coach was Jim Pollard, who led the team for one season. [4] Dick Motta is the only Wizards coach to have led the team to a championship; the team won the 1978 NBA Finals as the Washington Bullets during his tenure. [5]