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

The New Jersey Nets are an American professional basketball team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 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 Izod Center. The franchise was founded as the New Jersey Americans in 1967, and was one of the 11 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] In 2004, the Nets were sold to Bruce Ratner, a New York City real estate developer. He plans to move the Nets to Barclays Center, a new arena that is part of a proposed $2.5 billion office, residential and shopping complex in Brooklyn, New York. Ratner intended for the team to be moved to the new arena for the 2009–10 season. However, because of a weakening U.S. economy, tentative financing of the construction project and protests of local residents who would be displaced by the center, the Nets will not move until at least 2011.[3][4][5]

There have been 17 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.[6] 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).[6][7] 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).[8] Chuck Daly and Bill Fitch were selected as two of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[9] Daly, Brown and Lou Carnesecca are the only Nets coaches to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches.[10] Zaslofsky, York Larese, Lou Carnesecca, Dave Wohl, Beard and John Calipari spent their entire coaching careers with the Nets/Americans.[11][12][13][14][15]

Key

# Number of coaches[a]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
* 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 2007–08 season.

# Name Term[b] Regular Season Playoffs Achievements Reference
GC W L Win% GC W L Win%
New Jersey Americans 1967–1968 (ABA)
1 Max Zaslofsky* 1967–1968 78 36 42 .462 — — — — [16]
New York Nets (ABA) 1968–1976
— Max Zaslofsky* 1968–1969 78 17 61 .218 — — — — [16]
2 York Larese* 1969–1970 84 39 45 .464 7 3 4 .429 [11]
3 Lou Carnesecca*† 1970–1973 252 114 138 .452 30 13 17 .433 [12]
4 Kevin Loughery 1973–1976 252 168 84 .667 32 21 11 .656 2 ABA championships (1974, 1976) [6]
New York Nets 1976–1977 (NBA) and New Jersey Nets (NBA) 1977–present
— Kevin Loughery 1976–1981 363 129 234 .355 2 0 2 .000 [6]
5 Bob MacKinnon 1981 47 12 35 .255 — — — — [17]
6 Larry Brown† 1981–1983 158 91 67 .576 2 0 2 .000 [7]
7 Bill Blair 1983 6 2 4 .333 2 0 2 .000 [18]
8 Stan Albeck 1983–1985 164 87 77 .530 14 5 9 .357 [19]
9 Dave Wohl* 1985–1987 179 65 114 .363 3 0 3 .000 [13]
— Bob Mackinnon 1987–1988 39 10 29 .256 — — — — [17]
10 Willis Reed 1988–1989 110 33 77 .300 — — — — [20]
11 Bill Fitch 1989–1992 246 83 163 .337 4 1 3 .250 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[9] [21]
12 Chuck Daly† 1992–1994 164 88 76 .537 9 3 6 .333 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[9] [22]
13 Butch Beard* 1994–1996 164 60 104 .366 — — — — [14]
14 John Calipari* 1996–1999 184 72 112 .391 3 0 3 .000 [15]
15 Don Casey 1999–2000 112 44 68 .393 — — — — [23]
16 Byron Scott 2000–2004 288 149 139 .517 40 25 15 .625 [8]
17 Lawrence Frank 2004–present 379 196 183 .517 38 18 20 .474 [24]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the New Jersey / New York 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.

References

General
Specific
  1. ^ "New Jersey Nets History". CBS Interactive. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  2. ^ "New Jersey Nets History" National Basketball Association. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  3. ^ "Nets not moving to Newark, owner insists". ESPN (May 1, 2008). Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  4. ^ "Economy, uncertain financing delay plans for Brooklyn arena". ESPN (October 14, 2008). Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  5. ^ "Contract is pending approval Friday". ESPN (January 22, 2004}. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  6. ^ a b c d "Kevin Loughery Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  7. ^ a b "Larry Brown Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  8. ^ a b "Byron Scott Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  9. ^ a b c "Top 10 Coaches in NBA History". National Basketball Association. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Retrieved on November 22, 2008
  10. ^ "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinees By Category". Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Retrieved on November 25, 2008.
  11. ^ a b "York Larese Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  12. ^ a b "Lou Carnesecca Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  13. ^ a b "Dave Wohl Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  14. ^ a b "Butch Beard Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  15. ^ a b "John Calipari Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  16. ^ a b "Max Zaslofsky Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  17. ^ a b "Bob MacKinnon Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  18. ^ "Bill Blair Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  19. ^ "Stan Albeck Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  20. ^ "Willis Reed Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  21. ^ "Bill Fitch Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  22. ^ "Chuck Daly Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  23. ^ "Don Casey Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
  24. ^ "Lawrence Frank Coaching Record". Basketball-Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.
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