Top 5 Best NBA coaches of all time

Phil Jackson is ranked as the most successful & best NBA Coaches of all time with 11 NBA Championship league titles. Other Coaches are Red Auerback, Gregg Popovich, Pat Riley, Steve Kerr, Jerry Sloan, Red Holzman, and K.C Jones. But Phil Jackson has more achievements and championships born on September 17, 1945. He was an American former professional basketball player, coach, and also an excessive member. In his career, he played as a Power forward. How old is Phil Now? Jackson always builds a strong relationship with his players and treats them equally. This makes him the most loved coach ever in the history of the NBA. What is his Net Worthy?

Phil is an extremely intelligent man, knowledgable, and well-informed. And what makes him special he was the best power forward during his career journey in NBA. Although Phil is famous and considered the best coach, there is also John Wooden who was nicknamed the Wizard of Westwood. He was an outstanding player and coach in the history of the NBA. Is Phill Jackson in the hall of fame as a player? Why is he considered the best coach ever? In this article, we will disclose clear information on why Phil is ranked one on our list. Here is the list of the top 5 Most Successful NBA Coaches of All Times.

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1. Phil Jackson, 11 championships

Phil Jackson* is also called a three-peat sovereign because he won three championship titles with the Chicago bulls in 1991, 1992, and 1993. Do you know that Phil was a Holly wood actor before he formed coaching teams? Jackson has the best percentage ever in the history of NBA Championship titles where he won a total of 11 titles in his career. Phil had the most wins of 1155 and a ratio of 0.704. From 1995 to 1996, he made Chicago Bulls rank second standing in that season.

From 1996 to 1998, Phil won another three more titles. And in this time he won the Windy City Bull title, he was a unique and talented coach. He won another three titles with Los Angeles Lakers in the year 2000 to 2002. After 7 years with the Lakers, we won another two titles making a total of 5 titles with the lakers Los Angeles.

Phil Jackson Career Table

2. Red Auerback, 8 championships

Red Auerbach* is ranked double because he won eight conventional championship titles during his employment journey of coaching. His coaching career was from 1940 to 1966. Red was carried on September 20, 1917, in New York City United States. During his professional life in basketball, he played as the Guard. As a coach, Auerbach set NBA records with 938 wins and nine championships coaching Boston Celtic and Washington Capitols.

He was well known for modeling a fantastic hat and a cigar at the basketball ground. During his career journey, he was awarded the best NBA Coach of the year in 1965. Also, he served as an executive and won 7 championship titles in 1968, 1969, 1976, 1981, 1984, and 1986. Red share as a coach was 0.662, Auerbach is remembered as a pioneer of modern basketball. Red was the most recognized athlete, Bill Russell controlled his game and did what it took to defeat all games he had. All in all, Auerbach directly coached nine NBA championship teams and mentored four players namely; Russell, Sharman, Heinsohn, and K.C. Jones. These players made him win additional seven championship titles. Unfortunately, he passed on October 28, 2006, aged 89 years of age.

Red Auerback Career Table

3. Gregg Popovich, 5 championships

Gregg Popovich* is an American professional basketball player who led the Spurs to the playoffs for 22 seasons. In that season they won five titles and developed the standard for wins for all managers worldwide. He was born in January 1949 in east Chicago. Due to his great accomplishments, he was named NBA Coach of the year in 2003, 2012, and 2014. Gregg played as a guard in his career life of basketball before he became a coach. He was ranked in the top 15 coaches in NBA history having won 5 NBA Championships, 3 NBA coach of the year, 4 times NBA All-star game head coach, and 3 times SCIAC Champion.

He had a nickname of Coach Pop, Popovich was awarded the Red Auerbach Trophy in 2014 after defeating the Heat 4–1 in the Finals. In his career journey, he was called the winningest coach in NBA since he won 1413 times. Popovich coached three teams namely San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, and US National Basketball Team. at one point in his career, he conformed for the CIA for 5 years and trained the US Armed Force Basketball Team.

Gregg Popovich Career Table

4. Pat Riley, 4 championships

Pat Riley* was a former coach and player in the NBA born on march 20, 1945 with an impressive record of winning four NBA Championships in Los Angeles. Pat was a head coach and he has been a team president of Miami since 1995. In the 1980s, he led the lakers to win four championship titles during his regime. Also, he had a modification to coach legends of the NBA like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O’Neal, and Dwyane Wade. Right now he is the president of the Miami Heat. In his career journey in NBA, he played as a shooting guard with a prolonged coaching career from 1979 to 2008.

As a head coach, he operated to coach three teams namely; Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, and Miami Heat. In his professional coaching record, he won 1210 games in 694 matches with a percentage of 0.636. Riley led the Miami Heat to a 42 to 40 record, which was his 10th game advancement over the team’s earlier season. In 1997, he was chosen as the Coach of the year for the third time after guiding Maimi to a 61-21 standard season.

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5. Steve Kerr, 3 championships

Steve Kerr* was born on September 27, 1965, an American professional basketball coach and former player of the Golden State Warriors. Kerr has been a successful NBA player managing to win 8 rings, 5 championship rings, and three excellent rings as a coach. He has very many achievements winning nine times as NBA Champion and a three-time winner with Chicago Bulls. Kerr was playing point guard with numbers 4, 5, 2, and 25.

As a coach, he joined Golden State Warrier in 2014 to the present, in 2010 he held the NBA record for the highest three-point percentage in a season at 52.4%. Kerr won the 1986 FIBA World Championship as a player and a goal medal in the 2020 summer Olympics. He is well known for implementing the triangle offense in the days of Phil Jackson. Ranked as a top-four manager who at least has a double of regular season wins. In his coaching career, he has a percentage of 0.694 with an incredible coaching history of legends such as Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, and Draymond Green. On the other hand, he had physical and mental hardships in his personal life but he managed to win five straight finals with Warriors Team.

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