List of foreign NBA coaches
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In the National Basketball Association (NBA), foreign coaches—also known as international coaches—are those who were born outside of the United States.
This list includes all international coaches who have been assistant and/or head coach in the NBA and also includes all coaches who were born in the United States but have represented other countries in international basketball competition.
Contents
List
Note: These lists are correct through the start of the 2015–16 season.
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* | Denotes assistant coach who is still active in the NBA |
List of head coaches
Nationality[A] | Birthplace[B] | Head Coach | Career[C] | Yrs | Notes | Ref. |
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— | Jay Triano | 2008–2011 | 3 | — | [1] |
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David Blatt | 2014–2016 | 2 | Born in United States to Jewish parents, has dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship. | [2] |
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Mike D'Antoni | 1998–1999; 2003–2014 | 12 | Born in United States to Italian parents, has dual U.S. and Italian citizenship. | [3] |
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Steve Kerr* | 2014–present | 2 | Born in Lebanon to Malcolm H. Kerr, a Lebanese born American citizen.[4] | [5] |
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Kiki Vandeweghe | 2009–2010 | 1 | Born in West Germany[F] to a Canadian father and 1952 Miss America pageant winner Colleen Kay Hutchins. Holds both American and Canadian passports. | [6] |
List of assistant coaches
Nationality[A] | Birthplace[B] | Assistant Coach | Career[C] | Yrs | Notes | Ref. |
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— | Gordon Herbert | 2008–2009 | 1 | — | |
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— | Jamaal Magloire* | 2013–present | 3 | — | |
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— | Jay Triano* | 2002–2008; 2012–present | 10 | — | [1] |
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Neven Spahija* | 2014–present | 2 | — | |
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Detlef Schrempf | 2005–2007 | 2 | — | |
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— | Alex McKechnie* | 2013–present | 3 | — | |
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Jay Larranaga* | 2012–present | 4 | Born in United States to Irish parents, has dual U.S. and Irish citizenship. | |
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Jim Moran* | 2015–present | 1 | Born in United States to Irish parents, has dual U.S. and Irish citizenship. | |
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Mike D'Antoni* | 1997–1998; 2002–2003; 2015–present | 3 | Born in United States to Italian parents, has dual U.S. and Italian citizenship. | [3] |
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— | Ettore Messina* | 2014–present | 2 | — | |
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Ime Udoka* | 2012–present | 4 | Born in United States to Nigerian parents, has dual U.S. and Nigerian citizenship. | |
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Chip Engelland* | 1999–2000; 2003–present | 14 | Born in the United States, became a naturalized Filipino citizen. | |
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Becky Hammon* | 2014–present | 2 | Born in the United States, became a naturalized Russian citizen. | |
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Aleksandar Džikić | 2005–2007 | 2 | — | |
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Igor Kokoškov* | 2000–present | 16 | — | [7] |
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Darko Rajaković* | 2014–present | 2 | — | [8] |
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— | Jama Mahlalela* | 2012–present | 4 | — | |
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Vitaly Potapenko* | 2010–2011; 2013–present | 4 | — | |
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Patrick Ewing* | 2002–present | 14 | Born in Jamaica, moved to the United States at the age of 11, became a naturalized U.S. citizen. |
See also
Notes
- A Nationality indicates a coach's representative nationality.
- B Birthplace indicates a coach's country of birth. A blank column indicates that the coach's birth country is the same to his nationality.
- C Career in the NBA
- D SFR Yugoslavia dissolved in 1992 into five independent countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. FR Yugoslavia was renamed into Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003 and dissolved in June 2006 into two independent countries, Montenegro and Serbia.
- E Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991 into 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
- F Germany was previously divided into two independent countries, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1949 to 1990.
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