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Paul William Westhead (born February 21, 1939) is an American former basketball coach. He was the head coach for three National Basketball Association (NBA) teams and an assistant for four others, and also coached in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), American Basketball Association (ABA), and Japan Basketball League (JBL).
The Lakers have won 17 championships; five with Kundla, five with Jackson, four with Riley, one with Bill Sharman, one with Paul Westhead, and one with Frank Vogel. [7] With the Lakers, Sharman, Riley, and Del Harris have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, in 1972, 1990, and 1995 respectively. [8]
Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956) is an American basketball coach and former player. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers during his entire career in the National Basketball Association, winning five NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era.
Name Term GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference Regular season Playoffs 1 Johnny Kerr: 1966–1968: 163 62 101 .380 8 1 7 .125 1966–67 NBA Coach of the Year [13]2 ...
Paul Westhead coached the Ducks from the 2009–10 season through the 2013–14 season. The current head coach is Kelly Graves, assisted by Associate Head Coach Mark Campbell, and Assistant Coaches Jodie Berry and Xavi López.
Former NBA coach Paul Westhead became the Mercury's head coach prior to the 2006 season and brought his up-tempo style to Phoenix. Westhead was the first WNBA coach to have won a previous NBA championship (with Los Angeles Lakers in 1980). The Mercury also drafted Cappie Pondexter with the #2 overall selection in the 2006 WNBA Draft. The ...
He remarried in 1990 and with his wife, Linda, he has three daughters; Courtney Nikkiah, Shaakira and Isis Chanel. He has 3 grandchildren (as of early 2024); 2 grandsons from 2 of his younger daughters and a granddaughter from Zulekha named Lavina. His wife Linda (Fay) died in 2022 and this information was shared on Spencer's social media accounts.
Although Johnson denied responsibility for Westhead's firing, [4] he was booed across the league, even by Lakers' fans. [5] However, Buss was also unhappy with the Lakers offense and had intended on firing Westhead days before the Westhead–Johnson altercation, but assistant GM West and GM Bill Sharman had convinced Buss to delay his decision. [6]