List of Brooklyn Nets head coaches

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The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in Brooklyn, New York. They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team plays its home games at the Barclays Center. The franchise was founded as the New Jersey Americans in 1967, and was one of the eleven original American Basketball Association (ABA) teams. In its second ABA season, Arthur Brown, the team owner, moved the team to Long Island and renamed it the New York Nets. The team won ABA championships in 1974 and 1976. When the ABA merged with the NBA in 1976, the Nets were one of four ABA teams admitted into the NBA. The team was moved to the Rutgers Athletic Center in New Jersey; after the 1976–77 NBA season, the team was renamed the New Jersey Nets. Since they joined the NBA, the Nets have won 4 divisional championships, 2 conference championships and appeared in the playoffs 16 times.[1][2] The Nets moved to Brooklyn in 2012, and now play as the Brooklyn Nets.

There have been 23 head coaches for the Nets franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Max Zaslofsky, who led the team for two seasons. Kevin Loughery is the only Nets coach to have led the team to a championship; the Nets won ABA championships in 1974 and 1976 during his tenure.[3] Loughery is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached (615) and wins (297); P. J. Carlesimo is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season winning percentage (.648).[3][4] Byron Scott is the franchise's all-time leader in playoff games coached (40) and wins (25), as well as playoff-game winning percentage (.625).[5] Chuck Daly and Bill Fitch were selected as two of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[6] Daly, Brown and Lou Carnesecca are the only Nets coaches to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches.[7][8][9] Zaslofsky, York Larese, Lou Carnesecca, Dave Wohl, Butch Beard, John Calipari, Tom Barrise, and Kiki Vandeweghe spent their entire coaching careers with the Nets/Americans.[10][9][11][12][13]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
# Number of coaches[a]
* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Americans/Nets
dagger Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
*dagger Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
and spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Americans/Nets

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015–16 season.

# Name Term[b] GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
New Jersey Americans
1 Max Zaslofsky* 1967–1968 78 36 42 .462 0 0 0 [14]
New York Nets
Max Zaslofsky* 1968–1969 78 17 61 .218 0 0 0 [14]
2 York Larese* 1969–1970 84 39 45 .464 7 3 4 .429 [10]
3 Lou Carnesecca*dagger 1970–1973 252 114 138 .452 30 13 17 .433 [9]
4 Kevin Loughery 1973–1977 334 190 144 .569 32 21 11 .656 2 ABA championships (1974, 1976) [3]
New Jersey Nets
Kevin Loughery 19771981 281 107 174 .381 2 0 2 .000 [3]
5 Bob MacKinnon 1980–1981 47 12 35 .255 0 0 0 [15]
6 Larry Browndagger 19811983 158 91 67 .576 2 0 2 .000 [8]
7 Bill Blair 1983 6 2 4 .333 2 0 2 .000 [16]
8 Stan Albeck 19831985 164 87 77 .530 14 5 9 .357 [17]
9 Dave Wohl* 19851987 179 65 114 .363 3 0 3 .000 [11]
Bob MacKinnon 1987–1988 39 10 29 .256 0 0 0 [15]
10 Willis Reed 19881989 110 33 77 .300 0 0 0 [18]
11 Bill Fitch 19891992 246 83 163 .337 4 1 3 .250 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[6] [19]
12 Chuck Dalydagger 19921994 164 88 76 .537 9 3 6 .333 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[6] [7]
13 Butch Beard* 19941996 164 60 104 .366 0 0 0 [12]
14 John Calipari* 19961999 184 72 112 .391 3 0 3 .000 [13]
15 Don Casey 19992000 112 44 68 .393 0 0 0 [20]
16 Byron Scott 20002004 288 149 139 .517 40 25 15 .625 2 straight NBA Finals appearances[21] [5]
17 Lawrence Frank 20042009 466 225 241 .483 38 18 20 .474 [22]
18 Tom Barrise* 2009 2 0 2 .000 0 0 0 [23]
19 Kiki Vandeweghe* 2009–2010 64 12 52 .188 0 0 0 [24]
20 Avery Johnson 20102012 148 46 102 .311 0 0 0 [25]
Brooklyn Nets
Avery Johnson 2012 28 14 14 .500 0 0 0 [25]
21 P. J. Carlesimo 2012–2013 54 35 19 .648 7 3 4 .429 [4]
22 Jason Kidd 2013–2014 82 44 38 .537 12 5 7 .417 [26]
23 Lionel Hollins 20142016 119 48 71 .403 6 2 4 .333 [27]
24 Tony Brown 2016 45 11 34 .244 0 0 0 [28]
25 Kenny Atkinson 2016–present 0 0 0 0 0 0 [29]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the Americans/Nets. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season, except for the seasons spent in the ABA.

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