List of current NBA head coaches

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Gregg Popovich has coached the San Antonio Spurs for 28 years. Pop shouting profanity.JPG
Gregg Popovich has coached the San Antonio Spurs for 28 years.

This list includes the date of hiring and the performance record of National Basketball Association (NBA) head coaches. The league consists of 30 teams, of which 29 are located in the United States and one in Canada. In the NBA, a head coach is the highest ranking coach of a coaching staff.

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Gregg Popovich has served as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs for 28 years. No other current NBA head coach has been head coach of his current team as long as Popovich has been head coach of the Spurs. Popovich has also coached more games (2,209), won more games (1,388), and lost more games (821) than any other active head coach has with his current team. 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.

As of May 9, 2024, 16 coaches have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with their current teams: Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs, Erik Spoelstra with the Miami Heat, Steve Kerr with the Golden State Warriors, Taylor Jenkins with the Memphis Grizzlies, Mark Daigneault with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Chris Finch with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Will Hardy with the Utah Jazz, Chauncey Billups with the Portland Trail Blazers, Jamahl Mosley with the Orlando Magic, Brian Keefe with the Washington Wizards, Willie Green with the New Orleans Pelicans, Joe Mazzulla with the Boston Celtics, Darko Rajaković with the Toronto Raptors, Jordi Fernández with the Brooklyn Nets, Charles Lee with the Charlotte Hornets, and JJ Redick with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Popovich, Spoelstra, Kerr, Michael Malone, and Mazzulla have won NBA championships with their current teams, while Rick Carlisle, Tyronn Lue, Nick Nurse, Mike Budenholzer, and Doc Rivers have won with their former teams.

Key

GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
Win% Winning percentage
*Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the current franchise
†Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
NBA record

Coaches

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

TeamImageHead coachDivisionConferenceStart date [a] GCWLWin%GCWLWin%Ref.
Current [b] Career [c]
Atlanta Hawks Quin Snyder Utah.jpg Quin Snyder Southeast Eastern February 26, 2023 1034657.447739418321.566 [2] [3]
Boston Celtics Joe Mazzulla.png Joe Mazzulla * Atlantic Eastern February 16, 2023 16412143.73816412143.738 [4] [5] [6]
Brooklyn Nets 2023-08-09 Deutschland gegen Kanada (Basketball-Landerspiel) by Sandro Halank-160.jpg Jordi Fernández *AtlanticEastern April 22, 2024 000–000– [7]
Charlotte Hornets Charles Lee *SoutheastEastern May 9, 2024 000–000– [8]
Chicago Bulls Billy Donovan 2014.jpg Billy Donovan Central Eastern September 22, 2020 318156162.491718399319.556 [9] [10]
Cleveland Cavaliers Brooklyn Nets vs NY Knicks 2018-10-03 td 161b - 1st Quarter (cropped).jpg Kenny Atkinson CentralEastern June 28, 2024 000–308118190.383 [11] [12]
Dallas Mavericks Jason Kidd Nets coach cropped.jpg Jason Kidd Southwest Western June 28, 2021 286140106.569619323296.522 [13] [14]
Denver Nuggets Majkl Maloun 2020.png Michael Malone Northwest Western June 15, 2015 719424295.590825463362.561 [15] [16]
Detroit Pistons J.B. Bickerstaff (cropped).jpg J. B. Bickerstaff CentralEastern July 3, 2024 000–545255290.468 [17] [18]
Golden State Warriors 1 steve kerr 2019 (cropped).jpg Steve Kerr * Pacific Western May 19, 2014 793519274.654793519274.654 [19] [20]
Houston Rockets ImeUdoka2022.jpg Ime Udoka SouthwestWestern April 25, 2023 824141.5001649272.558 [21] [22]
Indiana Pacers Rick Carlisle 2011-10-03.jpg Rick Carlisle CentralEastern June 24, 2021 246107159.4021,771943828.532 [23] [24]
Los Angeles Clippers Tyronn Lue (30761766161) (cropped).jpg Tyronn Lue PacificWestern October 20, 2020 318184134.579529312217.590 [25] [26]
Los Angeles Lakers Tomas Satoransky, JJ Redick (cropped).jpg JJ Redick *PacificWestern June 24, 2024 000–000– [27]
Memphis Grizzlies Taylor Jenkins *SouthwestWestern June 11, 2019 391206185.527391206185.527 [28] [29]
Miami Heat Erik Spoelstra 2022 (cropped).jpg Erik Spoelstra *SoutheastEastern April 28, 2008 1,277750527.5871,277750527.587 [30] [31]
Milwaukee Bucks Rivers 76ers.jpg Doc Rivers CentralEastern January 26, 2024 361719.4721,8961,114782.588 [32] [33]
Minnesota Timberwolves Chris Finch 2023 01.png Chris Finch *NorthwestWestern February 22, 2021 287160127.557287160127.557 [34] [35]
New Orleans Pelicans Willie Green Clippers.jpg Willie Green *SouthwestWestern July 22, 2021 246127119.516246127119.516 [36] [37]
New York Knicks Tom Thibodeau cropped.jpg Tom Thibodeau AtlanticEastern July 30, 2020 318175143.550916527389.575 [38] [39]
Oklahoma City Thunder Mark Daigneault.png Mark Daigneault *NorthwestWestern November 11, 2020 318143175.450318143175.450 [40] [41]
Orlando Magic Jamahl Mosley *SoutheastEastern July 11, 2021 246103143.419246103143.419 [42] [43]
Philadelphia 76ers NICK NURSE (cropped).jpg Nick Nurse AtlanticEastern June 1, 2023 824735.573390227163.582 [44] [45]
Phoenix Suns CMuwGzp.jpg Mike Budenholzer PacificWestern May 11, 2024 000–801484317.604 [46] [47]
Portland Trail Blazers Billups coach (cropped).jpg Chauncey Billups *NorthwestWestern June 27, 2021 24681165.32924681165.329 [48] [49]
Sacramento Kings Doug Christie cropped.jpg Doug Christie *PacificWestern December 27, 2024 000–000– [50]
San Antonio Spurs Pop shouting profanity.JPG Gregg Popovich *†SouthwestWestern December 10, 1996 2,2091,388821.6282,2091,388821.628 [51] [52]
Toronto Raptors Darko Rajaković *AtlanticEastern June 13, 2023 822557.305822557.305 [53] [54]
Utah Jazz WillHardy 2023.jpg Will Hardy *NorthwestWestern June 29, 2022 1646896.4151646896.415 [55] [56]
Washington Wizards Celtics at Wizards 2024-12-043.jpg Brian Keefe SoutheastEastern May 29, 2024 39831.20539831.205 [57] [58]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Start date of current term at the team; each date is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.
  2. ↑ Coaching records from the current term with the team; coaching records from previous term with the team are not included.
  3. ↑ Career coaching records in the NBA; records in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and other leagues are not included.

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