List of Oklahoma City Thunder head coaches

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exterior view Chesapeake Energy Arena
The Oklahoma City Thunder plays at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, since 2008.
Billy Donovan is the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2015–.
Scott Brooks is the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2008–2015.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is an American professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It plays in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was known as the Seattle SuperSonics from 1967 to 2008. The team plays its home games at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.[1] As of October 2008, the Thunder is currently owned by Professional Basketball Club LLC and coached by Billy Donovan, with Sam Presti as its general manager. The team was formed in 1967. After spending 41 years in Seattle, Washington, the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City. Owner Clay Bennett, who purchased the team in 2006, sought to get public funding for a new arena in Seattle, or a major renovation of the KeyArena in 2007. After failing to do so, he decided to move the team to Oklahoma City.[2] Seattle sued Bennett's group to enforce the lease that required the team to stay until 2010. The two sides reached a $45 million settlement to pay off the team's lease with KeyArena in July 2008.[3][4]

There have been 16 head coaches for the Thunder franchise. The franchise won its only NBA championship in the 1979 NBA Finals while coached by Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens. Wilkens is the only member of the franchise to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.[5] He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached, regular-season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won. Wilkens, Nate McMillan and Bob Weiss formerly played for the team in Seattle.[6][7][8] Former head coach Scott Brooks is the only coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award with the franchise.[9]


Key

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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2014–15 season.

# Name Term[b] GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
1 Al Bianchi 1967–1969 164 53 111 .323 0 0 0 – [10]
2 Lenny Wilkensdagger 1969–1972 (as player-coach) 246 121 125 .492 0 0 0 – One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[11] [5]
3 Tom Nissalke 1972–1973 45 13 32 .289 0 0 0 – [12]
4 Bucky Buckwalter 1973 37 13 24 .351 0 0 0 – [13]
5 Bill Russell 1973–1977 328 162 166 .494 15 6 9 .400 [14]
6 Bob Hopkins* 1977 22 5 17 .227 0 0 0 – [15]
— Lenny Wilkensdagger 1977–1985 634 357 277 .563 69 37 32 .536 1 NBA championship (1979)
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[11]		 [5]
7 Bernie Bickerstaff 1985–1990 410 202 208 .493 27 12 15 .444 [16]
8 K. C. Jones 1990–1992 118 59 59 .500 5 2 3 .400 [17]
9 Bob Kloppenburg 1992 4 2 2 .500 0 0 0 – [18]
10 George Karl 1992–1998 534 384 150 .719 80 40 40 .500 [19]
11 Paul Westphal 1998–2000 147 76 71 .517 5 2 3 .400 [20]
12 Nate McMillan 2000–2005 395 212 183 .537 16 8 8 .500 [21]
13 Bob Weiss 2005–2006 30 13 17 .433 0 0 0 – [22]
14 Bob Hill 2006–2007 134 53 81 .396 0 0 0 – [23]
15 P. J. Carlesimo 2007–2008 95 21 74 .221 0 0 0 – [24]
16 Scott Brooks* 2008–2015[25] 545 338 207 .620 73 39 34 .534 2009–10 NBA Coach of the Year[9] [26]
17 Billy Donovan* 2015–present 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 – [27]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the SuperSonics/Thunder. 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.

References

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