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The Utah Jazz is an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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The team joined the NBA in 1974 as an expansion team called the New Orleans Jazz. The Jazz relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1979. The Jazz have won two consecutive Western Conference championships in 1997 and 1998. [1] The Jazz have played their home games at Vivint Arena, first known as Delta Center and then the EnergySolutions Arena, since 1991. [2] The Jazz is owned by Ryan Smith. [3]

There have been eight  head coaches for the Jazz franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Scotty Robertson, who coached for 14 games. Jerry Sloan is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (1,673), the most regular-season game wins (1,043), the highest regular-season winning percentage (.623), the most playoff games coached (186), the most playoff-game wins (92), and the highest playoff winning percentage (.495). Sloan is the first coach to win over 1000 games with one NBA team, [4] the leader for the most consecutive seasons coached with the same team in major professional sports history, having coached for 21 seasons with the Jazz, [5] and the only Jazz coach to have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach, having been enshrined in 2009. [6] Frank Layden, who coached the Jazz for eight seasons, is the only Jazz coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 1983–84 season. [7] Layden is also the only coach to have a number retired by the Jazz ("1" in 1988). [8] Elgin Baylor and Layden have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Jazz. Sloan had been the head coach of the Jazz from 1988 until his retirement in 2011. From 2011 to the end of the 2013/2014 season the Jazz were coached by Tyrone Corbin. The current coach is Will Hardy.

Key

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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2022–23 season.

#NameTerm [b] GCWLWin%GCWLWin%AchievementsReference
Regular seasonPlayoffs
New Orleans Jazz
Scotty Robertson 1974 15114.067000– [9]
Elgin Baylor * 1974 101.000000– [10]
Butch van Breda Kolff 1974–1976 17474100.425000– [11]
Elgin Baylor * 1976–1979 22086134.391000– [10]
Utah Jazz
Tom Nissalke 1979–1981 18460124.326000– [12]
Frank Layden * 1981–1988 571277294.485411823.4391983–84 NBA Coach of the Year [7]
Had the number 1 jersey retired by the Jazz in 1988 [8] 		[13]
Jerry Sloan † 1988–2011 18091127682.62319696100.4902 Western Conference championships (1997, 1998) [1]
Most consecutive games coached with the same team in NBA history [5]
First coach to have more than 1,000 wins with a single NBA team [4] 		[14]
Tyrone Corbin * 2011–2014 258112146.434404.000 [15]
Quin Snyder * 2014–2022 636372264.585512130.412 [16]

Will Hardy

2022–present823745.451———– [17]

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  14. ↑ "Jerry Sloan Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
  15. ↑ "Tyrone Corbin Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Utah Jazz Names Quin Snyder Head Coach" (Press release). Utah Jazz. June 6, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
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