List of Chicago Bulls head coaches

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are a member of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf and Billy Donovan is the current head coach. They play their home games in the United Center. The Bulls first joined the NBA in the 1966–67 season as an expansion team. Coached by Johnny Kerr, the team finished its first season with a 33–48 record, the best record achieved by an expansion team in its first year of play, and secured a playoff berth.[1] The Bulls won their first NBA championship in the 1991 NBA Finals while coached by Phil Jackson.[1] They won five additional NBA championships in the 1990s under Jackson.[1]

There have been 21 head coaches for the Bulls franchise. Phil Jackson is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached, regular season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won.[2] Jackson and Jerry Sloan are the only Bulls coaches to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.[2][3] Kerr, Dick Motta, Jackson, and Thibodeau have won NBA Coach of the Year with the team.[4] Ed Badger, Bill Berry, Bill Cartwright, Pete Myers and Jim Boylan have all spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Bulls.[5][6][7][8][9] Sloan, Cartwright, and Myers formerly played for the Bulls.[10][11][12]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
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* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Bulls
Template:Dagger Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through April 13, 2025.

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Regular season Playoffs
Template:Ntsh1 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1966–1968 163 62 101 Template:Winning percentage 8 1 7 Template:Winning percentage 1966–67 NBA Coach of the Year [13]
Template:Ntsh2 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1968–1976 656 356 300 Template:Winning percentage 47 18 29 Template:Winning percentage 1970–71 NBA Coach of the Year [14]
Template:Ntsh3 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1976–1978 164 84 80 Template:Winning percentage 3 1 2 Template:Winning percentage [5]
Template:Ntsh4 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1978–1979 56 20 36 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [15]
Template:Ntsh5 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1979 26 11 15 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [16]
Template:Ntsh6 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger 1979–1982 215 94 121 Template:Winning percentage 6 2 4 Template:Winning percentage [3]
Template:Ntsh7 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1982 1 0 1 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [17]
Template:Ntsh8 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1982 30 15 15 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [18]
Template:Ntsh9 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1982–1983 82 28 54 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [19]
Template:Ntsh10 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1983–1985 164 65 99 Template:Winning percentage 4 1 3 Template:Winning percentage [20]
Template:Ntsh11 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1985–1986 82 30 52 Template:Winning percentage 3 0 3 Template:Winning percentage [21]
Template:Ntsh12 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1986–1989 246 137 109 Template:Winning percentage 30 13 17 Template:Winning percentage [22]
Template:Ntsh13 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1989–1998 738 545 193 Template:Winning percentage 152 111 41 Template:Winning percentage 1995–96 NBA Coach of the Year
6 championships (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998)
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[23] 		[2]
Template:Ntsh14 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1998–2001 239 49 190 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [24]
Template:Ntsh15 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2001 2 0 2 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [6]
Template:Ntsh16 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2001–2003 151 51 100 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [7]
Template:Ntsh17 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2003 2 0 2 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [8]
Template:Ntsh18 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2003–2007 337 165 172 Template:Winning percentage 22 10 12 Template:Winning percentage [25]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2007 1 0 1 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [8]
Template:Ntsh19 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2007–2008 56 24 32 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [9]
Template:Ntsh20 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2008–2010 164 82 82 Template:Winning percentage 12 4 8 Template:Winning percentage [26]
Template:Ntsh21 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2010–2015 394 255 139 Template:Winning percentage 51 23 28 Template:Winning percentage 2010–11 NBA Coach of the Year [27]
Template:Ntsh22 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2015–2018 270 115 155 Template:Winning percentage 6 2 4 Template:Winning percentage [28]
Template:Ntsh23 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2018–2020 123 39 84 Template:Winning percentage — — — Template:Winning percentage [29]
Template:Ntsh24 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2020–present 400 195 205 Template:Winning percentage 5 1 4 Template:Winning percentage [30]

Notes

  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>a A running total of the number of coaches of the Bulls. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
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References

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