List of Denver Nuggets head coaches

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Template:Short description The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).[1] The Nuggets were founded as the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967.[1] In 1974, in anticipation of moving to the NBA, the franchise held a contest to choose a new trademarked name for the team, as Rockets was already in use by the Houston Rockets and the name Nuggets won.[1] In 1976, the ABA folded, and the NBA decided to admit four ABA teams into the league, including the Nuggets, the San Antonio Spurs, the Indiana Pacers and the New York Nets.[1]

There have been 22 head coaches for the Nuggets franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Bob Bass, who led the team to the division semifinals, losing to the New Orleans Buccaneers.[1] Doug Moe (1988) and George Karl (2013) are the only Nuggets coaches to win the NBA Coach of the Year Award.[2] Michael Malone is the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff wins.[3] Larry Brown & George Karl are the only Nuggets coaches to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, although John McLendon was inducted as a contributor, but not a coach.[4] In 1976, Brown coached the Nuggets to the team's only ABA championship game.[1] John McLendon, Joe Belmont, Donnie Walsh, Dan Issel, Bill Hanzlik, Mike Evans, Jeff Bzdelik, Michael Cooper, and Brian Shaw spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Nuggets. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
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Template:Dagger Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

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

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Regular season Playoffs
Denver Rockets
Template:Ntsh1 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1967–1969 156 89 67 Template:Winning percentage 12 5 7 Template:Winning percentage [13]
Template:Ntsh2 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1969 28 9 19 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [5]
Template:Ntsh3 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1969–1970 69 45 24 Template:Winning percentage 12 5 7 Template:Winning percentage [6]
Template:Ntsh4 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1970–1971 71 27 44 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [14]
Template:Ntsh5 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1971–1974 252 118 134 Template:Winning percentage 12 4 8 Template:Winning percentage [15]
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Template:Ntsh6 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger 1974–1979 385 251 134 Template:Winning percentage 45 21 24 Template:Winning percentage Led team to and lost 1975–76 ABA Finals[1] [4]
Template:Ntsh7 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1979–1980 142 60 82 Template:Winning percentage 3 1 2 Template:Winning percentage [7]
Template:Ntsh8 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1980–1990 789 432 357 Template:Winning percentage 61 24 37 Template:Winning percentage 1987–88 NBA Coach of the Year[2] [3]
Template:Ntsh9 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1990–1992 164 44 120 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [16]
Template:Ntsh10 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1992–1995 198 96 102 Template:Winning percentage 12 6 6 Template:Winning percentage [8]
Template:Ntsh11 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1995 16 3 13 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [17]
Template:Ntsh12 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1995–1996 127 59 68 Template:Winning percentage 3 0 3 Template:Winning percentage [18]
Template:Ntsh13 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1996–1997 69 17 52 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [19]
Template:Ntsh14 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1997–1998 82 11 71 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [9]
Template:Ntsh15 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1998–1999 50 14 36 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [20]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1999–2001 190 84 106 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [8]
Template:Ntsh16 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2001–2002 56 18 38 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [10]
Template:Ntsh17 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2002–2004 192 73 119 Template:Winning percentage 5 1 4 Template:Winning percentage [11]
Template:Ntsh18 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2004 14 4 10 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [12]
Template:Ntsh19 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger 2004–2013 680 423 257 Template:Winning percentage 59 21 38 Template:Winning percentage 2012–13 NBA Coach of the Year [21]
Template:Ntsh20 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2013–2015 141 56 85 Template:Winning percentage — — — —
Template:Ntsh21 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2015 23 10 13 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [22]
Template:Ntsh22 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2015–2025 798 471 327 Template:Winning percentage 80 44 36 Template:Winning percentage NBA championship (2023) [23]
Template:Ntsh23 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2025–present 3 3 0 Template:Winning percentage 14 7 7 Template:Winning percentage

Notes

  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>a A running total of the number of coaches of the Nuggets. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season, except for the seasons spent in the ABA.

References

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