Skip to content
Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/lists-of-nba-head-coaches-by-team

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

List of Golden State Warriors head coaches

None


Summary

None

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco, California. The franchise had been known as the Philadelphia Warriors and the San Francisco Warriors, due to it previously being based in or near those cities. The team is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Warriors initially joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as the Philadelphia Warriors in 1946, and won the first BAA championship title in the same year under coach Eddie Gottlieb. The Warriors later joined the NBA at its foundation in 1949. The Warriors' record was 26–42 in their first NBA season and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Syracuse Nationals. Franklin Mieuli and the Diners Club put together a group of 40 local investors to move the Warriors to San Francisco before the 1962–63 NBA season, with Mieuli eventually buying all the shares of the franchise to keep the team from collapsing and to keep it in the area. The team became the Golden State Warriors and moved to Oakland before the 1971–72 NBA season.

There have been 25 head coaches for the Warriors franchise. The franchise won their first NBA championship as the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1956 NBA Finals, and were coached by George Senesky. Their second title was won as the Golden State Warriors in 1975, under coach Al Attles, who played with and coached the Warriors for 25 seasons. He was also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached and wins until March 2025 when his record was surpassed by Steve Kerr, who coached the Warriors to four championships in , , and . Kerr also leads the franchise in winning percentage for games coached, as well as playoff games coached and wins.

Frank McGuire is one of the members of the franchise that has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches, while being the only one to do so that has spent his whole career with the franchise. Alex Hannum, Don Nelson, and Bill Sharman are the only other members of the franchise that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Hannum, Nelson, and Kerr have both received the NBA Coach of the Year award once. Nelson has also been named one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. Four former players for the Warriors, Attles, Johnston, George Lee, and Senesky went on to coach for the franchise.

Key

*Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
and spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Warriors

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the .

#NameTermGCWLWin%GCWLWin%AchievementsReferenceRegular seasonPlayoffs
Philadelphia Warriors
1*581263318.453321517.4691 Championship (1947)
2*21611997.551201010.5001 Championship (1956)
3723240.444
4*1549559.6171248.333
5*804931.6131266.500
San Francisco Warriors
6803149.388
7240100140.4171257.4171963–64 NBA Coach of the Year
81638776.534251312.520
9*1346371.470624.333
10*– (as player-coach)1224963514
Golden State Warriorsborder=2}};"Golden State Warriors
*7073943235629271 Championship (1975)
11*21615.286
*246114132
*24689157.362
121465888.3971046.400
13*18414.222
14537277260249151991–92 NBA Coach of the Year
15*371225
161646698
1715946113
18551342
191052580
20591346
211647589
22*1646896
3281451831156One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
23823646
24*23012110919910
25*–present875567308152104484 Championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
2015–16 NBA Coach of the Year

File:Al Attles (18942789466).jpg|Al Attles was the head coach from to and guided the Rick Barry-led Warriors to the 1975 NBA championship. File:Don Nelson.jpg|Don Nelson was the Golden State Warriors head coach from to and from to . File:Mark Jackson 2013 (cropped).jpg|Mark Jackson was the head coach from to . File:Steve Kerr (16453076458) cropped.jpg|Steve Kerr is the current head coach of the Warriors since the season.

Notes

  • A running total of the number of coaches of the Warriors. Thus, any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

References

;General

;Specific

References

  1. "1949-50 NBA Season Summary". Sports Reference LLC.
  2. "2007-08 Warriors Media Guide: Warriors History (pg. 170)". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  3. "Golden State Warriors". Sports Reference LLC.
  4. Bush, David. (May 4, 2005). "There's still more to Mieuli than meets the eye". San Francisco Chronicle.
  5. "2007-08 Warriors Media Guide: Warriors History (pg. 148)". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  6. "Al Attles Statistics". Sports Reference LLC.
  7. Emerman, Danny. (2025-03-15). "Steve Kerr passes Al Attles for most wins in Warriors franchise history".
  8. "Golden State Warriors Coach Register". Sports Reference LLC.
  9. "Neil Johnston Statistics". Sports Reference LLC.
  10. "George Lee Statistics". basketball-reference.com.
  11. "George Senesky Statistics". Sports Reference LLC.
  12. "Edward Gottlieb Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  13. "George Senesky Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  14. "Al Cervi Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  15. "Neil Johnston Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  16. "Frank McGuire Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  17. "Bob Feerick Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  18. "Coach of the Year". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  19. "Alex Hannum Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  20. "Bill Sharman Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  21. "George Lee Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  22. "Al Attles Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  23. "Johnny Bach Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  24. "George Karl Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  25. "Ed Gregory Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  26. "Top 10 Coaches in NBA History". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
  27. "Don Nelson Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  28. "Bob Lanier Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  29. "Rick Adelman Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  30. "P.J. Carlesimo Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  31. "Garry St. Jean Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  32. "Dave Cowens Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  33. "Brian Winters Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  34. "Eric Musselman Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  35. "Mike Montgomery Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  36. "Keith Smart Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  37. "Mark Jackson Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
  38. (April 26, 2016). "Warriors' Kerr named 2015-16 NBA Coach of the Year". NBA.com.
  39. "Steve Kerr Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about List of Golden State Warriors head coaches — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report