List of Washington Wizards head coaches

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. They are a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team plays its home games at the Capital One Arena (formerly the MCI Center and the Verizon Center). The franchise was established in Chicago, Illinois as the Chicago Packers in 1961; after one season, its name was changed to the Chicago Zephyrs. In 1963, the franchise moved to Baltimore, Maryland and was renamed the Baltimore Bullets. It moved to Landover, Maryland in 1973 and changed its name to the Capital Bullets. After one season, the team became the Washington Bullets. In 1978, the Bullets won the 1978 NBA Finals in seven games for the franchise's only championship. In 1997, the team became the Washington Wizards, which is the team's current name. Since their formation, the Wizards have won six divisional championships, four conference championships, one league championship and have appeared in the playoffs twenty-three times.[1][2][3]

There have been 24 head coaches for the Wizards franchise. The franchise's first coach was Jim Pollard, who led the team for one season.[4] Dick Motta is the only Wizards coach to have led the team to a championship; the team won the 1978 NBA Finals as the Washington Bullets during his tenure.[5] Gene Shue is the only Wizards coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award; he won it twice, in 1969 and 1982.[6] No Wizards coach has been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach, but four have been elected into the Hall of Fame as a player: Jim Pollard, Buddy Jeannette, K. C. Jones and Wes Unseld.[4][7][8][9] Shue is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached (1027) and wins (522); Jones is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season winning percentage (.630).[8] Dick Motta is the franchise's all-time leader in playoff games coached (51) and wins (27), as well as playoff-game winning percentage (.529).[5] Five Wizards coaches have spent their entire NBA head coaching career with the team: Mike Farmer, Bob Staak, Jim Brovelli, Leonard Hamilton and Ed Tapscott.[10][11][12][13][14] The team's current head coach is Brian Keefe.

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
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* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Packers/Zephyrs/Bullets/Wizards

Coaches

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Regular season Playoffs
Template:Ntsh1 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1961–1962 80 18 62 .359 — — — — [4]
Template:Ntsh2 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1962 38 12 26 .316 — — — — [15]
Template:Ntsh3 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1962–1964 (as player-coach) 122 44 78 .361 — — — — [16]
Template:Ntsh4 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1964–1965 80 37 43 .463 10 5 5 .500 [7]
Template:Ntsh5 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1965–1966 80 38 42 .475 3 0 3 .000 [17]
Template:Ntsh6 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1966 (interim) 9 1 8 .111 — — — — [10]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort". 1966 (interim) 16 3 13 .188 — — — — [7]
Template:Ntsh7 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1966–1973 548 291 257 .531 40 14 26 .350 1968–69 NBA Coach of the Year[6] [18]
Template:Ntsh8 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1973–1976 246 155 91 .630 31 14 17 .452 [8]
Template:Ntsh9 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1976–1980 328 185 143 .564 51 27 24 .529 NBA Championship (1978)[19] [5]
Template:Ntsh— Script error: No such module "Sort". 1980–1986 479 231 248 .482 15 5 10 .333 1981–82 NBA Coach of the Year[6] [18]
Template:Ntsh10 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1986–1988 122 57 65 .467 8 2 6 .250 [20]
Template:Ntsh11 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1988–1994 547 202 345 .369 5 2 3 .400 [9]
Template:Ntsh12 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1994–1997 210 82 128 .390 — — — — [21]
Template:Ntsh13 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1997 (interim) 1 0 1 .000 — — — — [11]
Template:Ntsh14 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1997–1999 149 77 72 .517 3 0 3 .000 [22]
Template:Ntsh15 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1999 (interim) 18 5 13 .278 — — — — [12]
Template:Ntsh16 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1999–2000 44 14 30 .318 — — — — [23]
Template:Ntsh17 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2000 (interim) 38 15 23 .395 — — — — [24]
Template:Ntsh18 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2000–2001 82 19 63 .232 — — — — [13]
Template:Ntsh19 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2001–2003 164 74 90 .451 — — — — [25]
Template:Ntsh20 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2003–2008 421 197 224 .468 26 8 18 .308 [26]
Template:Ntsh21 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2008–2009 (interim) 71 18 53 .254 — — — — [14]
Template:Ntsh22 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2009–2012 181 51 130 .282 — — — — [27]
Template:Ntsh23 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2012–2016 377 178 199 Template:Winning percentage 21 12 9 Template:Winning percentage [28]
Template:Ntsh24 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2016–2021 390 183 207 Template:Winning percentage 24 10 14 Template:Winning percentage [29]
Template:Ntsh25 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2021–2024 207 77 130 Template:Winning percentage — — — — [30]
Template:Ntsh26 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2024–present 121 26 95 Template:Winning percentage — — — —

Notes

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

References

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