List of NBA player-coaches
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Richie Guerin had coached 372 games as a player-coach, the most among the other player-coaches. 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] Lenny Wilkens, who is in second place for highest number of games as a player-coach, was the only player-coach who has been employed by more than one team. He spent three seasons as the Seattle SuperSonics' player-coach and one season as the Portland Trail Blazers' player-coach.[17] He is the only player-coach (along with Russell) who has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.[18] Other than Wilkens, twelve player-coaches have been inducted as players while two player-coaches have been inducted as coaches. The Coach of the Year Award was never won by a player-coach.
Wilkens went on to become the
Key
Yrs | Number of years coached |
G | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
Win% | Winning percentage |
^ | Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player |
* | Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach |
^* | Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach |
Player-coaches
Player-coach | Team(s) played and coached | Years[a] | G | W | L | Win% | G | W | L | Win% | Championship(s) won[b] | Honor(s) and award(s) won[c]
|
Ref(s). |
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Regular season | Playoffs | ||||||||||||
Richie Guerin^ | St. Louis Hawks Atlanta Hawks |
1964–1967 1968–1970 |
372 | 199 | 173 | .535 | 43 | 21 | 22 | .488 | None | All-Star Game head coach (1969, 1970) | [26][27][28][29] |
Lenny Wilkens^* | Seattle SuperSonics Portland Trail Blazers |
1969–1972 1974–1975 |
328 | 159 | 169 | .485 | — | — | — | — | None | All-Star Game MVP (1971 )
|
[19][30] |
Paul Seymour | Syracuse Nationals
|
1956–1960 | 279 | 155 | 124 | .556 | 20 | 9 | 11 | .450 | None | None | [31][32] |
Al Cervi^ | Syracuse Nationals
|
1949–1953 | 267 | 170 | 90 | .637 | 27 | 13 | 14 | .481 | None | All-NBA Team (1950) All-Star Game head coach (1952) |
[33][34][35] |
Bill Russell^* | Boston Celtics | 1966–1969 | 245 | 162 | 83 | .661 | 46 | 28 | 16 | .609 | 2 (1968, 1969) | All-NBA Team (1968, 1969) All-Defensive Team (1969) All-Star (1967, 1968, 1969) |
[36][37] |
Dave DeBusschere^ | Detroit Pistons | 1964–1967 | 222 | 79 | 143 | .356 | — | — | — | — | None | All-Star (1966, 1967) | [38][39] |
Buddy Jeannette^ | Baltimore Bullets[d]
|
1947–1950 | 176 | 82 | 94 | .466 | 15 | 10 | 5 | .667 | 1 (1948) | All-BAA Team (1948 )
|
[40][41] |
Bobby Wanzer^ | Rochester Royals
|
1955–1957 | 144 | 62 | 82 | .431 | — | — | — | — | None | All-Star (1956) All-Star Game head coach (1957) |
[42][43][44] |
Carl Braun | New York Knicks | 1959–1961 | 127 | 40 | 87 | .315 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [45][46] |
Al Attles | San Francisco Warriors
|
1970–1971 | 112 | 49 | 63 | .438 | 5 | 1 | 4 | .200 | None | None | [20][47] |
Bob Cousy^ | Cincinnati Royals
|
1969–1970 | 82 | 36 | 46 | .439 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [48][49] |
Dolph Schayes^ | Philadelphia 76ers | 1963–1964 | 80 | 34 | 46 | .425 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | None | None | [50][51] |
Andrew Levane | Milwaukee Hawks
|
1952–1953 | 71 | 27 | 44 | .380 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [52][53] |
Bob Feerick | Washington Capitols | 1949–1950 | 68 | 32 | 36 | .471 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | None | None | [54][55] |
Dave Cowens^ | Boston Celtics | 1978–1979 | 68 | 27 | 41 | .397 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [56][57] |
Ed Macauley^ | St. Louis Hawks
|
1958–1959 | 62 | 43 | 19 | .694 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | None | All-Star Game head coach (1959) | [58][59][60] |
Jimmy Darden | Denver Nuggets[e]
|
1949–1950 | 62 | 51 | 41 | .177 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [61][62] |
Grady Lewis | St. Louis Bombers
|
1948–1949 | 60 | 29 | 31 | .483 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | None | None | [63][64] |
Curly Armstrong | Fort Wayne Pistons
|
1948–1949 | 54 | 22 | 32 | .407 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [65][66] |
Tom Marshall | Cincinnati Royals
|
1958–1959 | 54 | 16 | 38 | .296 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [67][68] |
Mike Todorovich | Tri-Cities Blackhawks
|
1950–1951 | 42 | 14 | 28 | .333 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [69][70] |
Bobby Leonard | Chicago Zephyrs
|
1962–1963 | 42 | 13 | 29 | .310 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [71][72] |
Dick McGuire^ | Detroit Pistons | 1959–1960 | 41 | 17 | 24 | .415 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | None | None | [73][74] |
Fred Scolari | Baltimore Bullets[d]
|
1951–1952 | 39 | 12 | 27 | .308 | — | — | — | — | None | All-Star (1952) | [75][76] |
Howie Schultz | Anderson Packers[f] | 1949–1950 | 35 | 21 | 14 | .600 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [77][78] |
Bones McKinney | Washington Capitols | 1950–1951 | 35 | 10 | 25 | .286 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [79][80] |
Charley Shipp | Waterloo Hawks[g] | 1949–1950 | 35 | 8 | 27 | .229 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [81][82] |
Alex Hannum* | St. Louis Hawks
|
1957 | 31 | 15 | 16 | .484 | 12 | 8 | 4 | .667 | None | None | [21][83] |
Kevin Loughery | Philadelphia 76ers | 1973 | 31 | 5 | 26 | .161 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [23][84] |
Walt Budko | Baltimore Bullets[d]
|
1951 | 29 | 10 | 19 | .345 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [85][86] |
Nat Hickey | Providence Steamrollers | 1948 | 29 | 4 | 25 | .138 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [87][88] |
Jack Smiley | Waterloo Hawks[g] | 1950 | 27 | 11 | 16 | .407 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [89][90] |
Red Holzman* | Milwaukee Hawks
|
1954 | 26 | 10 | 16 | .385 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [22][91] |
Bruce Hale | Indianapolis Jets | 1948 | 17 | 4 | 13 | .235 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [92][93] |
Ed Sadowski | Toronto Huskies | 1946 | 12 | 3 | 9 | .250 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [94][95] |
Slater Martin^ | St. Louis Hawks
|
1957 | 8 | 5 | 3 | .625 | — | — | — | — | None | All-NBA Team (1957) All-Star (1957) |
[96][97] |
Bob Pettit^ | St. Louis Hawks
|
1962 | 6 | 4 | 2 | .667 | — | — | — | — | None | All-Star Game MVP (1962 )
|
[98][99] |
Johnny Logan | Tri-Cities Blackhawks
|
1950 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .667 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [100][101] |
Dick Fitzgerald | Toronto Huskies | 1946 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .667 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [102][103] |
Terry Dischinger | Detroit Pistons | 1971 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | — | — | — | — | None | None | [104][105] |
Notes
- BAA / NBA season.
- b Each year is linked to an article about the BAA / NBA Finals in that year.
- c Each year is linked to an article about that particular BAA / NBA season or the NBA All-Star Game in that year.
- folded in 1954,[106] are not affiliated with the present-day Washington Wizards, who were known as the Baltimore / Capital / Washington Bullets from 1963 to 1997.[107]
- e The original Denver Nuggets, who folded in 1950,[108] are not affiliated with the present-day Denver Nuggets, who were founded in 1967 as a member of American Basketball Association (ABA).[109]
- f The Anderson Packers, who folded in 1950,[110] are not affiliated with the present-day Washington Wizards, who were known as the Chicago Packers from 1961 to 1962.[107]
- g 1 2 The Waterloo Hawks, who folded in 1950,[111] are not affiliated with the present-day Atlanta Hawks, who were also known as the Milwaukee / St. Louis Hawks from 1951 to 1968.[112]
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See also
- List of National Basketball Association players
- List of National Basketball Association head coaches with 400 games coached