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List of Oklahoma City Thunder head coaches
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The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City. The Thunder compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at the Paycom Center. The Thunder is owned by Professional Basketball Club LLC with Sam Presti as its general manager. The team was formed in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics. After spending 41 seasons in Seattle, 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. 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.
There have been 18 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. He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached and won, playoff games coached and won. Wilkens, Paul Westphal, Nate McMillan and Bob Weiss formerly played for the team in Seattle. Scott Brooks in , and Mark Daigneault in , are the only coaches to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award with the franchise.
Key
Coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the .
| # | Name | Term | GC | W | L | Win% | GC | W | L | Win% | Achievements | Reference | Regular season | Playoffs | * | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle SuperSonics | border=2}};" | Seattle SuperSonics | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | – | 164 | 53 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 2 | – (as player-coach) | 246 | 121 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 0 | One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history | |||||||||
| 3 | 45 | 13 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 37 | 13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5 | – | 328 | 162 | 166 | 15 | 6 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 6 | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| — | – | 634 | 357 | 277 | 69 | 37 | 32 | NBA championship (1979) | |||||||||
| 7 | – | 410 | 202 | 208 | 27 | 12 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 8 | – | 118 | 59 | 59 | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10 | – | 534 | 384 | 150 | 80 | 40 | 40 | ||||||||||
| 11 | – | 147 | 76 | 71 | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 12 | – | 395 | 212 | 183 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 13 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 14 | – | 134 | 53 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 15 | 82 | 20 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Oklahoma City Thunder | border=2}};" | Oklahoma City Thunder | |||||||||||||||
| — | 13 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 16 | – | 545 | 338 | 207 | 73 | 39 | 34 | NBA Coach of the Year () | |||||||||
| 17 | – | 400 | 243 | 157 | 41 | 18 | 23 | ||||||||||
| 18 | –present | 400 | 211 | 189 | 43 | 22 | 11 | NBA Coach of the Year () | |||||||||
| NBA championship (2025) |
Gallery
Lenny Wilkens 1968.jpeg|Lenny Wilkens was the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics from to while as a player and from to , and won an NBA championship in 1979. George Karl.jpg|George Karl was the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics from to , and led them to their third NBA Finals in 1996. Nate McMillan with Oregon National Guard cropped.jpg|Nate McMillan was the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics from to . Scott Brooks.jpg|Scott Brooks was the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from to , and led them to their first NBA Finals in 2012. Billy Donovan 2014.jpg|Billy Donovan was the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from to .
References
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References
- (July 3, 2008). "City Preparing Ford Center For NBA Team". Hearst Television Inc.
- Johns, Greg. (November 2, 2007). "Bennett says Sonics going to Oklahoma". Hearst Seattle Media, LLC.
- (July 3, 2008). "SuperSonics, Seattle reach last-minute settlement". ESPN Internet Ventures.
- (July 2, 2008). "Sonics, city reach settlement". The Seattle Times.
- "Lenny Wilkens Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Lenny Wilkens Playing Record". Sports Reference.
- "Nate McMillan Playing Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bob Weiss Playing Record". Sports Reference.
- "Coach of the Year". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Al Bianchi Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Top 10 Coaches in NBA History". National Basketball Association.
- "Tom Nissalke Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bucky Buckwalter Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bill Russell Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bob Hopkins Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bernie Bickerstaff Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "K.C. Jones Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bob Kloppenburg Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "George Karl Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Paul Westphal Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Nate McMillan Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bob Weiss Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Bob Hill Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "P.J. Carlesimo Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Scott Brooks Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Billy Donovan Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
- "Mark Daigneault Coaching Record". Sports Reference.
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