NBA Championships: Coaches That Have Won at Least One Title
This is the complete list of NBA coaches with championships won.
Here you have the list with the 35 coaches that have won at least one NBA Championship. In 76 editions only 14 coaches have won more than one. By winning his 10th championship in 2009, Phil Jackson broke the tie with Red Auerbach for the winningest coach in NBA history.
Phil Jackson, Alex Hannum and Pat Riley are the only coaches that won titles with two different teams.
In the last 36 years (since 1986-87) only 14 coaches took the ring home: Jackson, Riley, Rudy Tomjanovic, Chuck Daly, Gregg Popovich, Larry Brown, Doc Rivers, Rick Carlisle, Erik Spoelstra, Steve Kerr, Tyronn Lue, Nick Nurse, Frank Vogel and Mike Budenholzer.
NBA Coaches that have won Championships - Full list |
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| Titles | Coach | Team
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| 11 | Phil Jackson | Chicago Bulls
1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93,
1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98
L.A. Lakers
1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2008-09, 2009-10 |
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| 9 | Red Auerbach | Boston Celtics
1956-57, 1958-59, 1959-60,
1960-61, 1961-62, 1962-63
1963-64, 1964-65, 1965-66 |
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| 5 | John Kundla | Minneapolis Lakers
(now L.A. Lakers) 1948-49, 1949-50, 1951-52,
1952-53, 1953-54 |
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| 5 | Gregg Popovich | San Antonio Spurs
1998-99, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2006-07, 2013-14 |
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| 5 | Pat Riley | L.A. Lakers
1981-82, 1984-85, 1986-87
1987-88
Miami Heat
2005-06 |
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| 4 | Steve Kerr | Golden State Warriors
2021-22, 2014-15, 2016-17, 2017-18 |
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| 2 | Chuck Daly | Detroit Pistons
1988-89, 1989-90 |
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| 2 | Alex Hannum | St. Louis Hawks
(now Atlanta Hawks) 1957-58
Philadelphia 76ers
1966-67 |
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| 2 | Tom Heinsohn | Boston Celtics
1973-74, 1975-76 |
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| 2 | Red Holzman | New York Knicks
1969-70, 1972-73 |
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| 2 | K. C. Jones | Boston Celtics
1983-84, 1985-86 |
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| 2 | Bill Russell | Boston Celtics
1967-68, 1968-69 |
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| 2 | Erik Spoelstra | Miami Heat
2011-12, 2012-13 |
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| 2 | Rudy Tomjanovich | Houston Rockets
1993-94, 1994-95 |
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| 1 | Al Attles | Golden State Warriors
1974-75 |
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| 1 | Al Cervi | Syracuse Nationals
(now Philadelphia 76ers) 1954-55 |
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| 1 | Larry Brown | Detroit Pistons
2003-04 |
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| 1 | Mike Budenholzer | Milwaukee Bucks
2020-21 |
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| 1 | Rick Carlisle | Dallas Mavericks
2010-11 |
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| 1 | Larry Costello | Milwaukee Bucks
1970-71 |
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| 1 | Billy Cunningham | Philadelphia 76ers
1982-83 |
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| 1 | Bill Fitch | Boston Celtics
1980-81 |
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| 1 | Eddie Gottlieb | Philadelphia Warriors
(now Golden St. Warriors) 1946-47 |
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| 1 | Les Harrison | Rochester Royals
(now Sacramento Kings) 1950-51 |
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| 1 | Buddy Jeannette | Baltimore Bullets
(defunct franchise) 1947-48 |
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| 1 | Tyronn Lue | Cleveland Cavaliers
2015-16 |
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| 1 | Dick Motta | Washington Bullets
(now Washington Wizards) 1977-78 |
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| 1 | Nick Nurse | Toronto Raptors
2018-19 |
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| 1 | Jack Ramsay | Portland Trailblazers
1976-77 |
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| 1 | Doc Rivers | Boston Celtics
2007-08 |
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| 1 | George Senesky | Philadelphia Warriors
(now Golden St. Warriors) 1955-56 |
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| 1 | Bill Sharman | L.A. Lakers
1971-72 |
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| 1 | Frank Vogel | L.A. Lakers
2019-20 |
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| 1 | Paul Westhead | L.A. Lakers
1979-80 |
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| 1 | Lenny Wilkens | Seattle Supersonics
1978-79 |
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