hubie brown won coach of the year in nba.
hubie brown won coach of the year in nba.
who won coach of the year in nba?
hubie brown
since its inception, the award has been given to 40 different coaches. the most recent award winner is current milwaukee bucks head coach mike budenholzer. gregg popovich, don nelson and pat riley have each won the award three times, while hubie brown, budenholzer, mike d'antoni, bill fitch, cotton fitzsimmons, and gene shue have each won it twice. no coach has won consecutive coach of the year awards. riley is the only coach to be named coach of the year with three franchises. larry bird is the only recipient to have also been named mvp as a player. tom heinsohn, bill sharman, and lenny wilkens are the only recipients to have been inducted to the naismith memorial basketball hall of fame as both player and coach. johnny kerr is the only person to win the award with a losing record (33–48 with the chicago bulls in ). kerr was honored because he had guided the bulls to the nba playoffs in their first season in the league. doc rivers is the only person to win the award despite his team not making the playoffs (41–41 with the orlando magic in ). only five recipients also coached the team that won the championship the same season: red auerbach, red holzman, bill sharman, phil jackson, and gregg popovich. popovich is the only nba coach of the year recipient to win the championship in the same season twice, winning the nba title with the san antonio spurs in 2003 and 2014.
nba coach of the year award
on may 18, a day after the 2016 nba draft lottery ended with everyone remaining exactly where they were at all this time, the suns hired the canadian portland trail blazers' assistant coach jay triano into being the team's official associate head coach for earl watson on a three-year deal of his own. on june 25, two days after the 2016 nba draft ended, the phoenix suns announced that one of its former players, tyrone corbin, would be a new assistant coach for earl watson's staff. during the 2016 nba summer league, it was announced that both bret burchard and scott vaughan would be assistant head coaches for the suns throughout the event. on july 7, 2016, the suns would add an old college assistant coach named scott duncan to their team as a player development assistant. duncan was previously an assistant coach for various division i campuses in the ncaa since 1978, ranging from coach watson's campus at ucla and oregon to clemson and washington state, with northern illinois, fresno state, new mexico, and cleveland state all holding him around at one point or another, with his most recent tenure being a part of the university of montana as an associate head coach for six straight seasons. later on that month, on july 27, it was announced that the suns would be close to completing their coaching staff by having a former college teammate of steve nash, as well as a former nba player and video coordinator and player development coach for the san antonio spurs named marlon garnett join the team as both an assistant head coach and a player development coach similar to what current assistant head coach nate bjorkgren held last year under former head coach jeff hornacek before the first coaching shake-up of last season left nate exclusively as an assistant coach only. finally, on september 13, it was announced that the team had a last-minute addition to their player development staff with former 2004 nba finals champion and all-star mehmet okur joining the team as an official player development coach, thus becoming the first turkish born citizen to enter an nba coaching staff in some way. it was a move to bring some extra help for the suns' young big men, especially the suns' first round rookies this season in dragan bender and marquese chriss. more specifically, it was done to have the players learn how to do moves in the post and utilize those moves properly. both triano and okur would mark the first time a team had two or more foreign born coaches being a part of the same nba coaching staff, although it wouldn't mark the first time the team had an international coach altogether.
2016–17 phoenix suns season