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List of Portland Trail Blazers head coaches
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The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise entered the NBA in 1970. The Trail Blazers sold out 814 consecutive home games from through , the longest such streak in American professional sports. The team has played their home games at the Moda Center (formerly the Rose Garden) since the 1995–96 NBA season. The Trail Blazers are owned by Jody Allen, and Joe Cronin is their general manager.
There have been 15 head coaches for the Trail Blazers franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Rolland Todd, who coached for two seasons. Jack Ramsay is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (820), and the most regular season game wins (453). Rick Adelman is the franchise's all-time leader for the highest winning percentage in the regular season (.654), playoff games coached (69), and most playoff game wins (36). Ramsay is the only coach to win an NBA championship with the Trail Blazers, in the 1977 NBA Finals. Ramsay and Lenny Wilkens are the only Trail Blazers coaches to be elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and were both named one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. Mike Schuler and Mike Dunleavy have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, in and respectively, with the Trail Blazers. Todd, Stu Inman, Jack McCloskey, Kevin Pritchard, and Kaleb Canales have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Trail Blazers. Canales was named interim coach of the Trail Blazers toward the end of the season. Terry Stotts was named as head coach on August 7, 2012. The announcement was made by General Manager Neil Olshey. At this time, his NBA coaching record was 115–168.
Key
| Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach |
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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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | * | – | 138 | 41 | 97 | .297 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 2 | * | 26 | 6 | 20 | .231 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 3 | * | – | 164 | 48 | 116 | .293 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 4 | (as player-coach) | |||||||||||||||
| 164 | 75 | 89 | .457 | — | — | — | — | One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history | ||||||||
| 5 | – | 820 | 453 | 367 | .552 | 59 | 29 | 30 | .492 | 1 NBA championship (1977) | ||||||
| One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | – | 211 | 127 | 84 | .602 | 8 | 2 | 6 | .250 | NBA Coach of the Year | ||||||
| 7 | – | 445 | 291 | 154 | .654 | 69 | 36 | 33 | .522 | 2 NBA Finals (1990, 1992) | ||||||
| 8 | – | 246 | 137 | 109 | .557 | 12 | 3 | 9 | .250 | |||||||
| 9 | – | 296 | 190 | 106 | .642 | 36 | 18 | 18 | .500 | NBA Coach of the Year | ||||||
| 10 | – | 301 | 162 | 139 | .538 | 10 | 3 | 7 | .300 | |||||||
| 11 | * | 27 | 5 | 22 | .185 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 12 | – | 535 | 266 | 269 | .497 | 18 | 6 | 12 | .333 | |||||||
| 13 | * | 23 | 8 | 15 | .348 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 14 | –2021 | 720 | 402 | 318 | 62 | 22 | 40 | |||||||||
| 15 | * | –2025 | End | 328 | 117 | 211 |
File:Rick Adelman.png|Rick Adelman was the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers from to , and led them to their Second NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992 File:Maurice Cheeks.jpg|Maurice Cheeks was the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers from to File:McMillan Hawks.jpg|Nate McMillan was the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers from to File:Stotts-Terry-150105 (cropped).jpg|Terry Stotts was the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers from to File:Billups coach (cropped).jpg|Chauncey Billups, the current head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers since
Notes
- A running total of the number of coaches of the Trail Blazers. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
- Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.
References
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References
- (December 2, 2004). "Bulls still winning off the court". ESPN.
- (June 5, 2012). "Neil Olshey Named Trail Blazers General Manager". Portland Trail Blazers.
- "Rolland Todd Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Stu Inman Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Jack McCloskey Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Top 10 Coaches in NBA History". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Lenny Wilkens Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Walton, Lucas Ignite 'Blazermania'". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Jack Ramsay Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Coach of the Year". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Mike Schuler Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Rick Adelman Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "P.J. Carlesimo Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Mike Dunleavy Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Maurice Cheeks Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Kevin Pritchard Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Nate McMillan Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Kaleb Canales Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Terry Stotts Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
- "Chauncey Billups Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com.
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