List of Golden State Warriors head coaches

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The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco, California. The franchise had been known as the Philadelphia Warriors and the San Francisco Warriors, due to it previously being based in or near those cities. The team is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Warriors initially joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as the Philadelphia Warriors in 1946, and won the first BAA championship title in the same year under coach Eddie Gottlieb. The Warriors later joined the NBA at its foundation in 1949. The Warriors' record was 26–42 in their first NBA season and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Syracuse Nationals. [1] [2] Franklin Mieuli and the Diners Club put together a group of 40 local investors to move the Warriors to San Francisco before the 1962–63 NBA season, with Mieuli eventually buying all the shares of the franchise to keep the team from collapsing and to keep it in the area. The team became the Golden State Warriors and moved to Oakland before the 1971–72 NBA season. [3] [4] [5]

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There have been 25  head coaches for the Warriors franchise. The franchise won their first NBA championship as the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1956 NBA Finals, and were coached by George Senesky. [3] Their second title was won as the Golden State Warriors in 1975, under coach Al Attles, who played with and coached the Warriors for 25 seasons. [3] [6] [7] He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached and wins. Steve Kerr, who coached the Warriors to four championships in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022, leads the franchise in winning percentage for games coached, as well as playoff games coached and wins. [8]

Frank McGuire is one of the members of the franchise that has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches, while being the only one to do so that has spent his whole career with the franchise. [9] Alex Hannum, Don Nelson, and Bill Sharman are the only other members of the franchise that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. [10] [11] Hannum, Nelson, and Kerr have both received the NBA Coach of the Year award once. [10] [12] Nelson has also been named one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. [13] Four former players for the Warriors, Attles, Johnston, George Lee, and Senesky went on to coach for the franchise. [7] [14] [15] [16]

Key

GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
Win% Winning percentage
#Number of coaches [a]
†Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
*Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Warriors
*†Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
and spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Warriors

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2023–24 season.

#NameTerm [b] GCWLWin%GCWLWin%AchievementsReference
Regular seasonPlayoffs
Philadelphia Warriors
Eddie Gottlieb * 1946–1955 581263318.453321517.4691 Championship (1947) [17]
George Senesky * 1955–1958 21611997.551201010.5001 Championship (1956) [18]
Al Cervi 1958–1959 723240.444———— [19]
Neil Johnston * 1959–1961 1549559.6171248.333 [20]
Frank McGuire *† 1961–1962 804931.6131266.500 [9]
San Francisco Warriors
Bob Feerick 1962–1963 803149.388———— [21]
Alex Hannum † 1963–1966 240100140.4171257.4171963–64 NBA Coach of the Year [22] [10]
Bill Sharman † 1966–1968 1638776.534251312.520 [11]
George Lee * 1968–1970 1346371.470624.333 [23]
Al Attles * 1970–1971 (as player-coach)1224963.438514.200 [6]
Golden State Warriors
— Al Attles * 1971–1980 707394323.550562927.5181 Championship (1975) [6]
Johnny Bach * 1980 21615.286———— [24]
Al Attles * 1980–1983 246114132.463———— [6]
Johnny Bach * 1983–1986 24689157.362———— [24]
George Karl † 1986–1988 1465888.3971046.400 [25]
Ed Gregory * 1988 18414.222———— [26]
Don Nelson † 1988–1995 537277260.51624915.3751991–92 NBA Coach of the Year [22]
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history [13] 		[12]
Bob Lanier * 1995 371225.324———— [27]
Rick Adelman † 1995–1997 1646698.402———— [28]
P.J. Carlesimo 1997–1999 15946113.289———— [29]
Garry St. Jean 1999–2000 551342.236———— [30]
Dave Cowens 2000–2001 1052580.238———— [31]
Brian Winters 2001–2002 591346.220———— [32]
Eric Musselman 2002–2004 1647589.457———— [33]
Mike Montgomery * 2004–2006 1646896.415———— [34]
Don Nelson † 2006–2010 328145183.4421156.455One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history [13] [12]
Keith Smart 2010–2011 823646.439———— [35]
Mark Jackson * 2011–2014 230121109.52619910.474 [36]
Steve Kerr * 2014–present793519274.6541409941.7074 Championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
2015–16 NBA Coach of the Year [37] 		[38]

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