List of Cleveland Cavaliers head coaches

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The Cleveland Cavaliers are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers play in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team joined the NBA in 1970 as an expansion team and won their first Eastern Conference championship in 2007.[1] The Cavaliers have played their home games at Rocket Arena, formerly known as Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Quicken Loans Arena, and Gund Arena, since 1994.[2] The Cavaliers are owned by Dan Gilbert, with Koby Altman as their general manager.[3] American R&B-pop singer Usher Raymond is a minority owner.[4]

There have been 24 head coaches for the Cavaliers franchise. The current head coach is Kenny Atkinson. The franchise's first head coach was Bill Fitch, who coached for nine seasons. Fitch is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (738);[5] Lenny Wilkens is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season game wins (316); Mike Brown is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (71) and the most playoff game wins (42). David Blatt has the highest regular-season winning percentage (.675) and the highest playoff winning percentage (.700). Tyronn Lue is the only coach to lead the Cavaliers to an NBA championship, in 2016. Chuck Daly, Wilkens and Fitch have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as head coaches, partly due to their work with the Cavaliers.[6][7] Fitch, Daly and Wilkens were also named as 3 of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[8] Fitch, Brown, and Atkinson are the only Cavaliers coaches to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award.[9]

Key

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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2024–25 season.

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Regular season Playoffs
Template:Ntsh1 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger 1970–1979 738 304 434 .412 18 7 11 .389 1975–76 NBA Coach of the Year[9]
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[8] 		[5]
Template:Ntsh2 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1979–1980 82 37 45 .451 — — — — [10]
Template:Ntsh3 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1980–1981 71 25 46 .352 — — — — [11]
Template:Ntsh4 Script error: No such module "Sort".*[12] 1981 26 7 19 .269 — — — — [13]
Template:Ntsh5 Script error: No such module "Sort".[14] 1981 3 0 3 .000 — — — — [15]
Template:Ntsh6 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger[16] 1981–1982 41 9 32 .220 — — — — One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[8] [7]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort".[17] 1982 23 2 21 .087 — — — — [11]
Template:Ntsh7 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1982–1984 164 51 113 .311 — — — — [18]
Template:Ntsh8 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger 1984–1986 149 61 88 .409 4 1 3 .250 [19]
Template:Ntsh9 Script error: No such module "Sort".[20] 1986 15 4 11 .267 — — — — [21]
Template:Ntsh10 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger 1986–1993 574 316 258 .551 41 18 23 .439 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[8] [6]
Template:Ntsh11 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1993–1999 460 248 212 .539 14 2 12 .143 [22]
Template:Ntsh12 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1999–2001 164 62 102 .378 — — — — [23]
Template:Ntsh13 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2001–2003 124 37 87 .298 — — — — [24]
Template:Ntsh14 Script error: No such module "Sort".[25] 2003 40 9 31 .225 — — — — [26]
Template:Ntsh15 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2003–2005 146 69 77 .473 — — — — [27]
Template:Ntsh16 Script error: No such module "Sort".[28] 2005 18 8 10 .444 — — — — [29]
Template:Ntsh17 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2005–2010 410 272 138 .663 71 42 29 .592 Eastern Conference championship (2007)[1]
2008–09 NBA Coach of the Year[9] 		[30]
Template:Ntsh18 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2010–2013 230 64 166 .278 — — — — [31]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort". 2013–2014 82 33 49 .402 — — — — [30]
Template:Ntsh19 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2014–2016 113 83 40 Template:Winning percentage 20 14 6 Template:Winning percentage Eastern Conference championship (2015)
Template:Ntsh20 Script error: No such module "Sort".[32] 2016–2018 211 128 83 Template:Winning percentage 61 41 20 Template:Winning percentage NBA championship (2016)
Three Eastern Conference championships (2016–2018)
2016 ESPY Award for Best Coach/Manager 		[33]
Template:Ntsh21 Script error: No such module "Sort".[34] 2018–2019 76 19 57 Template:Winning percentage — — — —
Template:Ntsh22 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2019–2020 54 14 40 Template:Winning percentage — — — —
Template:Ntsh23 Script error: No such module "Sort".[35] 2020–2024 329 170 159 Template:Winning percentage 17 6 11 Template:Winning percentage [36]
Template:Ntsh24 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2024–present 82 64 18 Template:Winning percentage 9 5 4 Template:Winning percentage 2024–25 NBA Coach of the Year

Notes

  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>a A running total of the number of coaches of the Cavaliers. 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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  12. ↑ Musselman was fired 71 games into the 1980–81 season. Delaney served as interim head coach for the remaining eleven games and the first fifteen games of the 1981–82 season.
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  14. ↑ Delaney was fired fifteen games into the 1981–82 season. Kloppenburg served as interim head coach for three games before being fired.
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  16. ↑ Kloppenburg was fired after serving as interim head coach for three games in the 1981–82 season. Daly served as head coach for 41 games before being fired.
  17. ↑ Daly was fired after serving as head coach for 41 games in the 1981–82 season. Musselman served as head coach for the remaining fifteen games.
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  32. ↑ Blatt was fired 41 games into the 2015–16 season. Lue served as head coach for the remaining 41 games.
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  34. ↑ Lue was fired six games into the 2018–19 season. Drew served as interim head coach for the remaining 76 games.
  35. ↑ Beilein resigned 54 games into the 2019–20 season. Bickerstaff served as head coach for the remaining 11 games before the season's suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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