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{{short description|American basketball player and coach (1920–1998)}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Red Holzman
| image = Knicks coach Red Holzman.jpg
| width = 230
| caption = Holzman in the 1970s
| career_position = [[Point guard]]
| career_number = 10, 16
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 10
| weight_lbs = 175
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1920|8|10}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1998|11|13|1920|8|10}}
| death_place = [[New Hyde Park, New York]], U.S.
| debutyear = 1945
| finalyear = 1954
| high_school = [[Franklin K. Lane High School|Franklin K. Lane]] (New York City)
| college = * [[Baltimore Bees|Baltimore]] (1939–1940)
* [[CCNY Beavers men's basketball|CCNY]] (1940–1942)
| years1 = 1945–{{nbay|1952|end}}
| team1 = [[Rochester Royals]]
| years2 = {{nbay|1953|full=y}}
| team2 = [[Milwaukee Hawks]]
| coach_start = 1953
| coach_end = 1982
| cyears1 = {{nbay|1953|start}}–{{nbay|1956|end}}
| cteam1 = [[Atlanta Hawks|Milwaukee / St. Louis Hawks]]
| cyears2 = 1963–1967
| cteam2 = [[Leones de Ponce (basketball)|Leones de Ponce]]
| cyears3 = {{nbay|1967|start}}–{{nbay|1976|end}},<br/>{{nbay|1978|start}}–{{nbay|1981|end}}
| cteam3 = [[New York Knicks]]
| highlights = '''As player:'''
* [[NBA champion]] ([[1951 NBA Finals|1951]])
* [[List of National Basketball League (United States) champions|NBL champion]] (1946)
* 2× [[All-National Basketball League (United States) Team|All-NBL First Team]] (1946, 1948)
* [[All-National Basketball League (United States) Team|All-NBL Second Team]] (1947)
* [[NBL (United States) Rookie of the Year Award|NBL Rookie of the Year]] (1946)
* Third-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] – [[Converse (shoe company)|Converse]] ([[1942 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1942]])
'''As coach:'''
* 2× [[NBA champion]]  ([[1970 NBA Finals|1970]], [[1973 NBA Finals|1973]])
* [[NBA Coach of the Year Award|NBA Coach of the Year]] ([[1969–70 NBA season|1970]])
* 2× [[NBA All-Star Game|NBA All-Star Game Coach]]  ([[1970 NBA All-Star Game|1970]], [[1971 NBA All-Star Game|1971]])
* 3× [[List of BSN champions|BSN champion]] (1964–1966)
* [[Top 10 Coaches in NBA History]]
* [[Top 15 Coaches in NBA History]]
* No. 613 honored by [[New York Knicks#Players|New York Knicks]]  (1990)
| stats_league = BAA & NBA
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value = 2,166 (6.1 ppg)
| stat2label = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value = 344 (1.5 rpg)
| stat3label = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value = 721 (2.0 apg)
| cstats_league1 = NBA
| cwin1 = 696
| closs1 = 603
| HOF_coach = red-holzman
}}
'''William''' "'''Red'''" '''Holzman''' (August 10, 1920&nbsp;–&nbsp;November 13, 1998) was an American professional [[basketball]] player and [[coach (sport)|coach]]. He is best known as the [[head coach]] of the [[New York Knicks]] of the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) from 1967 to 1977, and again from 1978 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two [[NBA championship]]s in 1970 and 1973, and was inducted into the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 1986.

In 1996, Holzman was named one of the [[50 Greatest Players in NBA History#Coaches|Top 10 Coaches in NBA History]].<ref name="50th">{{cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/history/top_10_coaches.html|title=Top 10 Coaches in NBA History|work=NBA.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705230153/https://www.nba.com/history/top_10_coaches.html|access-date=March 14, 2008|archive-date=July 5, 2018}}</ref>

==Early life==
William "Red" Holzman was born on August 10, 1920, on the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]],<ref>{{cite book|first1=Red|last1=Holzman|first2=Harvey|last2=Frommer|title=Red on Red|year=1987|publisher=Bantam Books|page=6|url=https://archive.org/details/redonred00holz/page/6/mode/1up|url-access=registration|isbn=9780553052251|access-date=August 9, 2021}}</ref><ref Name="NYT">{{cite news |last=Berkow |first=Ira |author-link=Ira Berkow|date=November 15, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/sports/red-holzman-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-78.html|work=The New York Times|title=Red Holzman, Hall of Fame Coach, Dies at 78|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopedia.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/holzman-william|title=Holzman, William {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref> to Jewish immigrant parents, as the son of a Romanian mother and Russian father.<ref name="bookref1">{{cite book|last1=Othello Harris|first1=George Kirsch|last2=Claire Nolte|title=Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|date=April 2000|location=Westport, Connecticut|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofet0000unse_u6f6/page/222 222]|isbn=0-313-29911-0|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofet0000unse_u6f6/page/222}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Blevins |first1=David |title=The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Soccer |date=2012 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-6130-5 |page=452 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aB8sCV5nVaoC |language=en}}</ref> He grew up in Brooklyn's [[Ocean Hill, Brooklyn|Ocean Hill]]–[[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]] neighborhood<ref Name="NYT"/> and played basketball for [[Franklin K. Lane High School]] in the mid-1930s.

==College career==
Holzman attended the [[University of Baltimore]] and later the [[City College of New York]], where he played for two years until graduation in 1942. Holzman joined the [[United States Navy]] in the same year, and played on the [[Norfolk, Virginia]] [[Naval Station Norfolk|Naval Base]] team till he was discharged from the Navy in 1945.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>

==Professional career==
===Rochester Royals (1945–1953)===
[[File:Red Holzman, Rochester Royals, 1950.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Holzman in 1950 with the Rochester Royals]]
After the Navy, Holzman joined the [[National Basketball League (United States)|NBL]] [[Rochester Royals]], which won the NBL championship in Holzman's first season, and he was named [[Rookie]] of the Year in 1944–45.<ref name=dimitry>{{cite web|last=Dimitry |first=Steve |title=Extinct Sports Leagues: National Basketball League (1937–1949) |url=http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/nbl.html |year=1998 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050818001517/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/nbl.html |archive-date=August 18, 2005 }}</ref> In 1945–46 and 1947–48 he was on the NBL's first All League team; in the interim year he was on its second team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/nbl.html |title=Steve Dimitry's NBL Web Site |access-date=October 25, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050818001517/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/nbl.html |archive-date=August 18, 2005 }}</ref> Holzman stayed with the team through their move to the NBA and subsequent NBA championship in 1951.

===Milwaukee Hawks (1953–1954)===
In 1953, Holzman left the Royals and joined the [[Milwaukee Hawks]] as a player-coach, eventually retiring as a player in 1954 but continuing as the team's head coach.<ref Name="NYT"/><ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>

==Coaching career==
===Milwaukee / St. Louis Hawks (1953–1957)===
During the 1956–1957 season, the Hawks (then in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]) lost 19 of their first 33 games, and Holzman was fired.<ref Name="NYT"/><ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>

===Leones de Ponce (1963–1967)===
Holzman coached [[Leones de Ponce (basketball)]] from 1963 to 1967, winning three consecutive championships from 1964 to 1966.

===New York Knicks (1967–1977, 1978–1982)===
After being fired by the Hawks, Holzman then became a scout for the [[New York Knicks]] for the next ten years, till 1967, whereupon he became the team's head coach for the most part until 1982.<ref name="NYT"/> Holzman's former player, [[Willis Reed]], replaced him as Knicks head coach in 1977, but Holzman returned near the start of the 1978–1979 season. During this 15-year span as Knicks' coach, Holzman won a total of 613 games, including two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973.<ref Name="NYT"/>

In 1969, Holzman coached the Knicks to a then single-season NBA record [[List of National Basketball Association longest winning streaks|18-game win streak]], breaking the 17-game record first set back in 1946. For his efforts leading up to the Knicks' 1970 championship win, Holzman was named the [[NBA Coach of the Year Award|NBA Coach of the Year]] for that year. He won his second NBA championship as the Knicks won the [[1973 NBA Finals]] against the Lakers.<ref>{{cite web|first=Vivek|last=Dadhania|url=https://knicksfilmschool.com/2019/05/10/on-this-date-knicks-win-the-1973-nba-finals/|title=On This Date: Knicks win the 1973 NBA Finals|publisher=Knicks Film School|date=May 10, 2019|access-date=December 21, 2019}}</ref> He was one of very few individuals to have won an NBA championship as both player and coach. As a coach, his final record was 696 wins and 604 losses. At the time of his retirement in 1982, he had the second most career victories as a head coach in NBA history.<ref name="jewishsports.net">{{cite web |title=William "Red" Holzman |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/WilliamHolzman.htm |website=www.jewishsports.net |access-date=August 8, 2020}}</ref>

==Post-playing career==
In 1985, Holzman was elected into the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]]. The [[New York Knicks]] have retired the number 613 in his honor, equaling the number of wins he accumulated as their head coach.<ref Name="NYT"/> He is also a member of the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]]<ref name="jewishsports.net"/> and the [[New York City Basketball Hall of Fame]].

==Personal life==
Holzman lived with his wife in a home they bought in [[Cedarhurst, New York]] in the 1950s. Following his lengthy NBA coaching career, Holzman was diagnosed with [[leukemia]] and died at [[Long Island Jewish Medical Center]] in [[New Hyde Park, New York]] in 1998.<ref Name="NYT"/> In 2000, a clock tower was erected in his honor at the intersection of Central Avenue and Cedarhurst Avenue in Cedarhurst as part of “Operation Downtown,” a project started by [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]] presiding officer [[Bruce Blakeman]] and mayor Andy Parise.

==Career statistics==
===BAA/NBA===
{{NBA player statistics legend|champion=y}}

====Regular season====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|-
! Year
! Team
! GP
! MPG
! FG%
! FT%
! RPG
! APG
! PPG
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1948–49 BAA season|1948–49]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1948–49 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 60 || – || .326 || .611 || – || 2.5 || '''9.1'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1949}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1949–50 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| '''68''' || – || '''.330''' || .686 || – || '''2.9''' || 8.2
|-
|style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"| {{nbay|1950}}†
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1950–51 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| '''68''' || – || .326 || '''.726''' || '''2.2''' || 2.2 || 7.3
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1951}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1951–52 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 65 || '''16.4''' || .280 || .718 || 1.6 || 1.8 || 4.1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1952}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1952–53 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 46 || 8.5 || .255 || .711 || .9 || .8 || 2.2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1953}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1953–54 Milwaukee Hawks season|Milwaukee]]
| 51 || 12.7 || .330 || .658 || .9 || 1.5 || 3.8
|-
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 358 || 13.0 || .317 || .682 || 1.5 || 2.0 || 6.1
|-
|}

====Playoffs====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|-
! Year
! Team
! GP
! MPG
! FG%
! FT%
! RPG
! APG
! PPG
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1949 BAA Playoffs|1949]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1948–49 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 4 || – || '''.450''' || '''.833''' || – || '''3.3''' || '''10.3'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1950 NBA Playoffs|1950]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1949–50 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 2 || – || .333 || .500 || – || .0 || 3.5
|-
|style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"| [[1951 NBA Playoffs|1951]]†
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1950–51 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| '''14''' || – || .408 || .676 || '''1.4''' || 1.4 || 6.1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1952 NBA Playoffs|1952]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1951–52 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 6 || '''10.8''' || .200 || .167 || 1.0 || .3 || 1.2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1953 NBA Playoffs|1953]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1952–53 Rochester Royals season|Rochester]]
| 2 || 7.0 || .200 || .250 || .5 || .5 || 1.5
|-
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 28 || 9.9 || .386 || .596 || 1.2 || 1.3 || 5.1
|-
|}
*Source: ''[https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/holzmre01.html Basketball Reference]''

===College===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|-
! Year
! Team
! GP
! PPG
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| 1940–41
| style="text-align:left;"| [[CCNY Beavers men's basketball|CCNY]]
| 21 || 10.9
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| 1941–42
| style="text-align:left;"| [[CCNY Beavers men's basketball|CCNY]]
| 18 || 12.5
|-
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 39 || 11.6
|-
|}
*''Source: [https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/holzmre01.html#all_all_college_stats Basketball-Reference.com]''

==Head coaching record==
{{NBA coach statistics legend}}
{{NBA coach statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[Milwaukee Hawks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1953}}
|26||10||16||.385|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Western||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[Milwaukee Hawks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1954}}
|72||26||46||.361|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Western||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[St. Louis Hawks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1955}}
|72||33||39||.458|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Western||8||4||4||.500
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1956 NBA playoffs|Western Division finals]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[St. Louis Hawks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1956}}
|33||14||19||.424|| style="text-align:center;"|—||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1967}}
|45||28||17||.622|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Eastern||6||2||4||.333
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1968 NBA playoffs|Eastern Division semifinals]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1968}}
|82||54||28||.659|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Eastern||10||6||4||.600
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1969 NBA playoffs|Eastern Division finals]]
|- ! style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1969}}
|82||60||22||.732|| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Eastern||19||12||7||.632
| style="text-align:center;"|'''Won [[1970 NBA Finals|NBA Championship]]'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1970}}
|82||52||30||.634|| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Eastern||12||7||5||.583
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1971 NBA playoffs|Conference semifinals]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1971}}
|82||48||34||.585|| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Eastern||16||9||7||.563
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1972 NBA playoffs|NBA Finals]]
|- ! style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1972}}
|82||57||25||.695|| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Eastern||17||12||5||.706
| style="text-align:center;"|'''Won [[1973 NBA Finals|NBA Championship]]'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1973}}
|82||49||33||.598|| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Eastern||12||5||7||.417
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1974 NBA playoffs|Conference finals]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1974}}
|82||40||42||.488|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Eastern||3||1||2||.333
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1975 NBA playoffs|First round]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1975}}
|82||38||44||.463|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Eastern||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1976}}
|82||40||42||.488|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Eastern||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1978}}
|68||25||43||.368|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Eastern||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1979}}
|82||39||43||.476|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Eastern||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1980}}
|82||50||32||.610|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Eastern||2||0||2||.000
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in [[1981 NBA Playoffs|First round]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[New York Knicks]]
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1981}}
|82||33||49||.402|| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Eastern||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:left;"|'''Career'''
| ||1300||696||604||.535|| ||105||58||47||.552
{{s-end}}
*''Source: [https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/holzmre01c.html#all_coach-stats Basketball Reference]''

==Publications==
* {{cite book | last = Holzman | first = Red | title = The Red Holzman Pro Basketball Guide 70-71| publisher = Aurora Publishers | year = 1970 | oclc = 423856}}
* {{cite book | last = Holzman | first = Red | title = The Knicks| publisher = Dodd, Mead & Co.| year = 1971 | isbn = 978-0-396-06342-1}}  
* {{cite book | last1 = Holzman | first1 = Red |last2 = Lewin | first2 = Leonard | title = Holzman's Basketball: Winning Strategy and Tactics | edition= 1st| publisher = The Macmillan Company | year = 1973 | isbn = 978-0-0255-3500-8}} 
* {{cite book | last = Holzman | first = Red | title = Defense! Defense!| publisher = Warner Paperback Library | year = 1974 | isbn = 978-0-446-78498-6}} 
* {{cite book | last = Holzman | first = Red | title = A View from the Bench | url = https://archive.org/details/viewfrombench0000holz | url-access = registration | edition= 1st| publisher = W. W. Norton & Company | year = 1980 | isbn = 978-0-393-33623-8}}
* {{cite book | last = Holzman | first = Red | title = Red on Red: The Autobiography of Red Holzman| publisher = Bantam Books | year = 1987 | isbn = 978-0-553-27316-8}}
* {{cite book | last = Holzman | first = Red | title = Holzman on Hoops: The Man Who Led the Knicks Through Two World Championships Tells It Like It Was| publisher = Taylor Publishing Company | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-878-33745-3}} 
* {{cite book | last1 = Holzman | first1 = Red |last2 = Lewin | first2 = Leonard | title = My Unforgettable Season 1970| edition = 1st | publisher = Tor Books | year = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-312-85453-9}} 

==See also==
*[[List of Jews in sports#Basketball|List of select Jewish basketball players]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |first=Mort|last=Zachter| title =Red Holzman: The Life and Legacy of a Hall of Fame Basketball Coach | publisher = Sports Publishing | year = 2019 | isbn = 978-1-683-58288-5}}

==External links==
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* {{Basketballhof|red-holzman}}
* [https://www.jewsinsports.org/profile_sport_basketball_ID_23.html Biography of Red Holzman]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151025210046/https://www.nba.com/history/holzman_50.html The NBA at 50: Red Holzman]
* [https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/holzmre01.html NBA statistics as player]
* [https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/holzmre01c.html NBA statistics as coach]
* {{find a Grave|29027655}}

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