List of Brooklyn Nets head coaches

Chuck Daly coached the Nets for two seasons. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994.

The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in Brooklyn, New York. 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. The Nets moved to Brooklyn in 2012, and now play as the Brooklyn Nets.

There have been 20 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. Loughery is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached (615) and wins (297); Larry Brown is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season winning percentage (.576). 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). Chuck Daly and Bill Fitch were selected as two of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. Daly, Brown and Lou Carnesecca are the only Nets coaches to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches. Zaslofsky, York Larese, Lou Carnesecca, Dave Wohl, Beard, John Calipari, Lawrence Frank, Tom Barrise, and Kiki Vandeweghe spent their entire coaching careers with the Nets/Americans.

Key

GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
Win%	Winning percentage
#	Number of coaches
*	Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Americans/Nets
	Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
*	Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach and spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Americans/Nets

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2012–13 season

#	Name	Term	GC	W	L	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%	Achievements	Reference
			Regular season				Playoffs
70001000000000000001	Zaslofsky, MaxMax Zaslofsky*	1967–1969	156	53	103	.400	—	—	—	—
70002000000000000002	Larese, YorkYork Larese*	1969–1970	84	39	45	.464	7	3	4	.429
70003000000000000003	Carnesecca, LouLou Carnesecca*	1970–1973	252	114	138	.452	30	13	17	.433
70004000000000000004	Loughery, KevinKevin Loughery	1973–1980	615	297	318	.483	34	21	13	.618	2 ABA championships (1974, 1976)
70005000000000000005	MacKinnon, BobBob MacKinnon	1980–1981	47	12	35	.255	—	—	—	—
70006000000000000006	Brown, LarryLarry Brown	1981–1983	158	91	67	.576	2	0	2	.000
70007000000000000007	Blair, BillBill Blair	1983	6	2	4	.333	2	0	2	.000
70008000000000000008	Albeck, StanStan Albeck	1983–1985	164	87	77	.530	14	5	9	.357
70009000000000000009	Wohl, DaveDave Wohl*	1985–1987	179	65	114	.363	3	0	3	.000
7001100000000000000—	MacKinnon, BobBob MacKinnon	1987–1988	39	10	29	.256	—	—	—	—
700111000000000000010	Reed, WillisWillis Reed	1988–1989	110	33	77	.300	—	—	—	—
700112000000000000011	Fitch, BillBill Fitch	1989–1992	246	83	163	.337	4	1	3	.250	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
700113000000000000012	Daly, ChuckChuck Daly	1992–1994	164	88	76	.537	9	3	6	.333	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
700114000000000000013	Beard, ButchButch Beard*	1994–1996	164	60	104	.366	—	—	—	—
700115000000000000014	Calipari, JohnJohn Calipari*	1996–1999	184	72	112	.391	3	0	3	.000
700116000000000000015	Casey, DonDon Casey	1999–2000	112	44	68	.393	—	—	—	—
700117000000000000016	Scott, ByronByron Scott	2000–2004	288	149	139	.517	40	25	15	.625
700118000000000000017	Frank, LawrenceLawrence Frank	2004–2009	466	225	241	.483	38	18	20	.474
700119000000000000018	Barrise, TomTom Barrise*	2009	2	0	2	.000	—	—	—	—
700120000000000000019	Vandeweghe, KikiKiki Vandeweghe*	2009–2010	64	12	52	.188	—	—	—	—
700121000000000000020	Johnson, AveryAvery Johnson	2010–2012	176	60	116	.341	—	—	—	—
700122000000000000021	Carlesimo, P. J.P. J. Carlesimo	2012–2013	54	35	19	.648	6	3	3	.500
700123000000000000022	{{{last}}}, TBD[[TBD {{{last}}}|TBD {{{last}}}]]	2013–2014	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the Americans/Nets. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season, except for the seasons spent in the ABA.

References

General

• "New Jersey Nets Coach Register". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 22, 2008. 

Specific