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{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (1934–2019)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{for|the whistling stage performer|Joe Belmont (bird impressionist)}}
[[File:Joe Belmont, Chanticleerseria1954duke 0333.jpg|thumb|right|Belmont with Duke, 1953–54]]
'''Joseph Elliott Belmont''' (July 12, 1934 – January 6, 2019) was an American [[basketball]] player and coach.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/denverpost/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-elliott-belmont&pid=191236412|title=Joseph Elliott Belmont|work=Legacy.com|date=January 11, 2019}}</ref>  He played college basketball at [[Duke University]], and was selected in the 1956 NBA Draft by the [[Philadelphia Warriors]].  He never played in the NBA, however.  He had a long playing career with the [[Denver-Chicago Truckers]] of the [[National Industrial Basketball League]].

In 1970, he was hired as the head coach of the [[American Basketball Association]]'s [[Denver Rockets]], a position he held for as season and a half.  He shared ABA Coach of the Year honors in 1970 with [[Bill Sharman]] of the [[Utah Stars]].

In 2005 Belmont was inducted into the [[Colorado Sports Hall of Fame]].

==Personal life==
In 1959 Belmont married Helen Sanquist and then had two kids. He died on January 6, 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://memorials.aspenmortuaries.com/joseph-belmont/3691539/service-details.php|title=Joseph Elliot Belmont|work=Aspen Mortuaries|date=January 15, 2019|access-date=January 20, 2019|archive-date=January 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121064306/https://memorials.aspenmortuaries.com/joseph-belmont/3691539/service-details.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
===ABA===
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|-
| align="left" |[[Denver Rockets|DEN]]
| align="left" | [[1969–70 Denver Rockets season|1969–70]]
|56||42||14||.750|| align="center" |1st in Western||12||5||7||.000
| align="center" |Lost in [[1970 ABA Playoffs|Division finals]]
|-
| align="left" |[[Denver Rockets|DEN]]
| align="left" | [[1970–71 Denver Rockets season|1970–71]]
|13||3||10||.231|| align="center" |(fired)||-||-||-||-
| align="center" |(fired)
|-class="sortbottom"
| align="left" |'''Career'''
| ||69||45||24||.652|| ||12||5||7||.417
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==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/belmojo99c.html BasketballReference.com: Joe Belmont]

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