List of Brooklyn Nets head coaches

The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team plays its home games at the Barclays Center. The franchise was founded as the New Jersey Americans in 1967, and was one of the eleven original American Basketball Association (ABA) teams. In its second ABA season, Arthur Brown, the team owner, moved the team to Long Island and renamed it the New York Nets. The team won ABA championships in 1974 and 1976. When the ABA merged with the NBA in 1976, the Nets were one of four ABA teams admitted into the NBA. The team was moved to the Rutgers Athletic Center in New Jersey; after the 1976–77 NBA season, the team was renamed the New Jersey Nets. Since they joined the NBA, the Nets have won 4 divisional championships, 2 conference championships and appeared in the playoffs 16 times.[1][2] The Nets moved to Brooklyn in 2012, and now play as the Brooklyn Nets.

There have been 24 head coaches for the Nets franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Max Zaslofsky, who led the team for two seasons. Kevin Loughery is the only Nets coach to have led the team to a championship; the Nets won ABA championships in 1974 and 1976 during his tenure.[3] Loughery is the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached (615) and wins (297); P. J. Carlesimo is the franchise's all-time leader in regular season winning percentage (.648).[3][4] Byron Scott is the franchise's all-time leader in playoff games coached (40) and wins (25), as well as playoff-game winning percentage (.625).[5] Chuck Daly and Bill Fitch were selected as two of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[6] Daly, Brown and Lou Carnesecca are the only Nets coaches to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches.[7][8][9] Zaslofsky, York Larese, Lou Carnesecca, Dave Wohl, Butch Beard, John Calipari, Tom Barrise, and Kiki Vandeweghe spent their entire coaching careers with the Nets/Americans.[10][9][11][12][13]

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  2. ^ "New Jersey Nets History". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Kevin Loughery Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  4. ^ "P. J. Carlesimo Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on July 4, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  5. ^ "Byron Scott Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on February 20, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  6. ^ "Top 10 Coaches in NBA History". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  7. ^ "Chuck Daly Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Brown was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ a b "Lou Carnesecca Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on October 20, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  10. ^ "York Larese Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on October 21, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  11. ^ "Dave Wohl Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on October 18, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  12. ^ "Butch Beard Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  13. ^ "John Calipari Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2008.