List of Phoenix Suns head coaches

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Template:Short description The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).[1] Founded in 1968, the Suns are chronologically the second-oldest team in the Western Conference. The Suns are also chronologically the third-oldest team in the NBA to have never won an NBA Championship while having played in the NBA Finals at least once.[2][3] The Suns play their home games at the PHX Arena (formerly the Phoenix Suns Arena, American West Arena and the US Airways Center).[1]

The Phoenix Suns franchise has had 23 head coaches. John MacLeod is the franchise's all-time leader in coaching years and games won, winning the most regular-season and playoff games.[4] Cotton Fitzsimmons, Mike D'Antoni and Monty Williams are the only coaches to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award with the Suns. The Suns never have been coached by a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. Paul Westphal has the highest all-time winning percentage with the Suns with a .685 percentage.[5] Alvin Gentry was named head coach after Terry Porter was dismissed by the Suns after 51 games in 2008.[6] Gentry left the Phoenix Suns under mutual agreement to part ways on January 18, 2013.[7] He was replaced by Lindsey Hunter halfway through the 2012–13 NBA season. He has since been replaced by former Suns player Jeff Hornacek. Hired in 2018, Serbian coach Igor Kokoškov became the first head coach born and raised outside of North America to be hired as a head coach in NBA history.[8] Former Pelicans coach Monty Williams was hired as head coach on May 3, 2019, and served until May 13, 2023.[9] On June 6, 2023, the Suns hired Frank Vogel as head coach.[10]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
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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". 1968–1969 120 31 89 .258 — — — — [11]
Template:Ntsh2 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1970 44 24 20 .545 7 3 4 .429 [12]
Template:Ntsh3 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1970–1972 164 97 67 .591 — — — — [13]
Template:Ntsh4 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1972 7 3 4 .429 — — — — [14]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1972–1973 75 35 40 .467 — — — — [12]
Template:Ntsh5 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1973–1987 1122 579 543 .516 81 37 44 .457 [4]
Template:Ntsh6 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1987 26 14 12 .538 — — — — [15]
Template:Ntsh7 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1987–1988 82 28 54 .341 — — — — [16]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort". 1988–1992 328 217 111 .662 40 21 19 .525 NBA Coach of the Year (1988–89)[17] [13]
Template:Ntsh8 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1992–1996 279 191 88 .685 44 25 19 .568 [5]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort". 1996 57 27 30 .474 4 1 3 .250 [13]
Template:Ntsh9 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1996–1999 226 136 90 .602 12 3 9 .250 [18]
Template:Ntsh10 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1999–2002 195 116 79 .595 13 5 8 .385 [19]
Template:Ntsh11 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2002–2003 134 63 71 .470 6 2 4 .333 [20]
Template:Ntsh12 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2003–2008 389 253 136 Template:Winning percentage 51 26 25 Template:Winning percentage NBA Coach of the Year (2004–05) [21]
Template:Ntsh13 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2008–2009 51 28 23 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [22]
Template:Ntsh14 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2009–2013 261 158 144 Template:Winning percentage 16 10 6 Template:Winning percentage [23]
Template:Ntsh15 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2013 41 12 29 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [24]
Template:Ntsh16 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2013–2016 213 101 112 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [25]
Template:Ntsh17 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2016–2017 118 33 85 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [26]
Template:Ntsh18 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2017–2018 79 21 58 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [27]
Template:Ntsh19 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2018–2019 82 19 63 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [28]
Template:Ntsh20 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2019–2023 309 194 115 Template:Winning percentage 46 27 19 Template:Winning percentage NBA Coach of the Year (2021–22) [29]
Template:Ntsh21 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2023–2024 82 49 33 Template:Winning percentage 4 0 4 Template:Winning percentage [10]
Template:Ntsh22 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2024–2025 82 36 46 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [30]
Template:Ntsh23 Jordan Ott 2025–present — — — — — — — — [31]

Notes

  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>a A running total of the number of coaches of the Suns. 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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