This list of current National Basketball Association Head Coaches has a total of 30 head coaches, but in this article, you’ll find the top 8 coaches in the NBA. The league consists of 30 teams and therefore we have a sum of 30 coaches. So, out of the 30 leagues, 29 are located in the United States and one is located in Canada. A head coach is the highest-ranking coach of a coaching staff, in the NBA.
We must have all heard about, Gregg Popovich, although these particular ones have not been added to the list of Current NBA Head Coaches. Well, Gregg has served as head coach for 24 years at the San Antonio Spurs. Well, as long as Popovich has been head coach of the Spurs, no other current NBA head coach has been head coach of his current team. Also, Erik Spoelstra, the Miami Heat head coach is the second longest-tenured NBA head coach. He has been the head coach of the Heat since the year 2008–09 season. The Basketball Hall of Fame has no active head coaches that have been drafted into, as coaches.
All the NBA head coaches were Americans during the season the year 2020–21. At the later stage, ten coaches have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with their current teams by the end of the 2020–21 season.
Let’s move towards knowing each Head Coach of the NBA more precisely as we read further.
| Coach | Team |
|---|---|
| Nate MacMillan | Atlanta Hawks |
| Ime Udoka | Boston Celtics |
| Steve Nash | Brooklyn Nets |
| Billy Donovan | Chicago Bulls |
| Dwane Casey | Detroit Pistons |
| Steve Kerr | Golden State Warriors |
| Rick Carlisle | Indiana Pacers |
Current NBA Head Coach for Atlanta Hawks – Nate MacMillan
Nathaniel McMillan is a basketball coach and former American player who currently serves as head coach of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). From the year 2000 – to 2005, he coached the Seattle SuperSonic, also the Portland Trail Blazers from the years 2005 to 2012, and the Indiana Pacers from the years 2016 to 2020. The SuperSonics is with whom he spent his entire 12-year NBA playing career. Later, in his career, he served as an assistant coach for less than 2 years and as a head coach for almost a period of five years. He eventually earned himself the nickname “Mr. Sonic” because of his tenure as a player and coach in Seattle for a long time.
The Seattle SuperSonics drafted McMillan with the 30th pick in the NBA draft of 1986. His entire career in the NBA was spent in Seattle. McMillan put up a career that averaged up to 5.9 points, 6.1 assists, and 1.9 steals during his 12 years of playing career. Before being a coach, McMillan was known for his superb defense, which led the NBA in steals per game for the season 1993–94, and then was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team for the 1993–94 1994–95 seasons. His balanced play led to four career triple-doubles, for which McMillan is famously known for.
Current NBA Head Coach for Boston Celtics – Ime Udoka
Ime Sunday Udoka is a professional American-Nigerian basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) at the moment. He has also been a part of the Nigeria national team during his playing career in Basketball.
Initially, during his career of being a coach, Udoka joined the San Antonio Spurs as an assistant coach for Gregg Popovich, in August 2012. After the Spurs defeated the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals of 2014, Udoka would win his first championship as an assistant coach. He then moved on to be an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ere from the year 2019 -to 20 and then an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets from the years 2020 -to 21 until he became the current Head Coach of the Boston Celtics where he was termed as the 5th head coach of African origin in the history of Boston Celtics.
Current NBA Head Coach for Brooklyn Nets – Steve Nash
A Canadian professional basketball coach and former player Stephen John Nas is currently the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Steve played in the NBA for 18 seasons, where he was named an eight-time All-Star and a seven-time All-NBA selection. While playing for the Phoenix Suns, Nash became a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player.
In the year 2020, Nash was announced as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets for the first time.
Later, in the following year 2021 on 3 March, Nash was named as the Eastern Conference Coach. He became the first Nets head coach to earn the honor, after his former teammate Jason Kidd had won the title of being the head coach twice in the year 2014. Nash was the one to lead the Nets to an Eastern Conference one among the best record of 9–4 during the month. It also included a conference-best record of 5–2. Nash as a coach, led the Nets to a record of 48–24 in his first season itself.
NBA Head Coach for Chicago Bulls – Billy Donovan
William John Donovan Jr. is a professional American basketball coach and a former player. He currently serves as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He served as the head basketball coach at the University of Florida from the year 1996 to 2015 before he moved to be the coach at the NBA. In the years 2006 and the year 2007, he also led his Florida Gator teams into back-to-back NCAA championships. He then also appeared in an NCAA championship in the millennial year 2000.
NBA Head Coach for Detroit Pistons – Dwane Casey
An American basketball coach Dwane Lyndon Casey, is currently the head coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was formerly a basketball player and a coach for the NCAA.
After he played and coached in the NCAA for over a decade he moved on to be the coach for the NBA. Before being the head coach in the NBA, he was the head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Toronto Raptors, that is where he had won the NBA Coach of the Year Award in the year 2018.
NBA Head Coach for Golden State Warriors – Steve Kerr
An American professional basketball coach and former player Stephen Douglas is currently the head coach of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been an eight-time NBA champion, along with winning five titles as a player as well as three with the Warriors as a head coach.
After the year 1969, Kerr is the only NBA player to win straight-four NBA titles. Kerr has the highest career three-point field goal percentage being 45.4% in the entire history of the NBA for any player who made at least 250 three-pointers. He was the one to hold the highest NBA record the three-point percentage in a season at 52.4% until Kyle Korver broke his record in the year 2010.
NBA Head Coach for Indiana Pacers – Rick Carlisle
An American basketball coach and former player Richard Preston Carlisle is currently the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was serving as a head coach of the Detroit Pistons and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) previously.
Carlisle, during his basketball playing career, played for the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, and New Jersey Nets. As a player and as a coach, he is also the only one among eleven people to win an NBA championship.
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