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List of Sacramento Kings head coaches
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The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team was founded as the Rochester Royals by Lester Harrison and his brother Jack Harrison in Rochester, New York in 1945. The Royals won the National Basketball League (NBL) championship during their inaugural season by defeating the Sheboygan Red Skins 3–0. In 1948, the team joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which merged with the NBL to become the NBA a year later. The franchise won its first NBA championship in the 1951 NBA Finals under the coaching of Lester Harrison. The Harrison brothers moved the team to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1957 due to poor attendance. After spending 15 years in Cincinnati, the team was purchased by a group of businessmen from Kansas City, who moved the team to Kansas City and renamed it to the Kings in 1972. The team was briefly named the Kansas City-Omaha Kings from 1972 to 1975 when home games were split between two cities. In 1983, the franchise was bought by a Sacramento-based group, and in 1985, moved to Sacramento, becoming the Sacramento Kings.
There have been 28 head coaches for the franchise since joining the NBA. Rick Adelman is the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached (624), regular season games won (395), playoff games coached (69), and playoff games won (34). Phil Johnson, Cotton Fitzsimmons, and Mike Brown have won NBA Coach of the Year with the Kings, in the , , and seasons respectively. Harrison, Bobby Wanzer, Ed Jucker, Bob Cousy, Draff Young, Jerry Reynolds, Reggie Theus, and Kenny Natt have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Kings. Wanzer, Tom Marshall, Jack McMahon, Cousy, Larry Staverman, Adelman and Theus formerly played for the Kings. The Kings are currently owned by Vivek Ranadivé, with former Knicks General Manager Scott Perry as the general manager and Doug Christie as the head coach.
Key
| * | Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Kings | Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach -- |
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Coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the . The list does not include NBL seasons.
| # | Name | Term | GC | W | L | Win% | GC | W | L | Win% | Achievements | Reference | Regular season | Playoffs | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | 476 | 296 | 181 | .620 | 38 | 19 | 19 | .500 | 1 Championship (1951) | |||||||||||||
| 2 | – (as player-coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | 234 | 98 | 126 | .418 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | (as player-coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 129 | 35 | 94 | .271 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | – | 239 | 118 | 121 | .494 | 16 | 7 | 9 | .438 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | – | 321 | 187 | 134 | .583 | 23 | 8 | 15 | .348 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | – | 164 | 80 | 84 | .488 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | (as player-coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | 350 | 141 | 209 | .403 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | – | 340 | 155 | 185 | .456 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | NBA Coach of the Year | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 45 | 18 | 27 | .400 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | – | 492 | 248 | 244 | .504 | 26 | 9 | 17 | .346 | NBA Coach of the Year | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 9 | 1 | 8 | .111 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| — | – | 201 | 81 | 120 | .403 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | ||||||||||||||
| 13 | 60 | 22 | 38 | .367 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | 58 | 17 | 41 | .293 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| — | – | 110 | 34 | 76 | .309 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 15 | – | 161 | 48 | 113 | .298 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 16 | 57 | 22 | 35 | .386 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | – | 395 | 159 | 236 | .403 | 4 | 1 | 3 | .250 | ||||||||||||||
| 18 | – | 97 | 33 | 64 | .340 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 19 | – | 624 | 395 | 229 | .633 | 69 | 34 | 35 | .493 | ||||||||||||||
| 20 | 82 | 33 | 49 | .402 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | – | 106 | 44 | 62 | .415 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 22 | 58 | 11 | 47 | .190 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | – | 171 | 51 | 120 | .298 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 24 | – | 141 | 48 | 93 | .340 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 25 | – | 106 | 39 | 67 | .368 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 26 | 28 | 7 | 21 | .250 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | – | 112 | 44 | 68 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | – | 246 | 98 | 148 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Luke Walton | – | 161 | 68 | 93 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| 30 | Alvin Gentry | 65 | 24 | 41 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Mike Brown | – | 195 | 107 | 88 | 7 | 3 | 4 | NBA Coach of the Year | ||||||||||||||
| 32 | Doug Christie | –present | 51 | 27 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Notes
- A running total of the number of coaches of the Royals/Kings. 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
- Cook, Kevin. "The Rochester Royals: The Story of Professional Basketball". Rochester Public Library.
- "Sacramento Kings History". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Coach of the Year". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Sacramento Kings Media Guides 2008-09 p.348". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
- "Bobby Wanzer Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Ed Jucker Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Bob Cousy Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Draff Young Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Jerry Reynolds Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Reggie Theus Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- (15 December 2008). "Kings fire coach Theus". ESPN Internet Ventures.
- "Bobby Wanzer Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Tom Marshall Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Jack McMahon Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Bob Cousy Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Larry Staverman Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Rick Adelman Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Reggie Theus Playing Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Lester Harrison Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Tom Marshall Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Charles Wolf Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Jack McMahon Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Phil Johnson Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Larry Staverman Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Cotton Fitzsimmons Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Jack McKinney Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Bill Russell Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Dick Motta Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Rex Hughes Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Garry St. Jean Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Eddie Jordan Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Rick Adelman Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Eric Musselman Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Kenny Natt Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Paul Westphal Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Keith Smart Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Mike Malone Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Tyrone Corbin Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "George Karl Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Dave Joerger Coaching Record". Sports Reference LLC.
- "Luke Walton Coaching Record".
- "Kings coach Mike Brown named NBCA Coach of the Year".
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