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A total of eight teams changed managers in the summer of 2018, and with just over a month to go until the start of the 2018-19 season, the coaching staff of each team has been restructured. Affected by this, the power of the NBA coaching faction has changed again. September 10th is Teacher's Day, let's take a look at what the current NBA coaching school is?

The Spurs suffered a major setback this summer, with the team's leader voluntarily asking to leave San Antonio for the first time since Popovich took charge. However, the Spurs department has already formed a brand effect, and the Spurs department has not only not decreased, but increased. None of the disciples of Zen Master Phil Jackson played the triangle offensive anymore. Coaching NCAA-born college coaches is a joy and a worry. In addition, a new trend for NBA coaches this year is the growing popularity of European genres in the NBA.

The Spurs continue to thrive

The Spurs have been under Popovich's management for more than 20 years, and the Spurs are like the Whampoa Military Academy, which has cultivated batches of coaches and management personnel. This summer, Messina, Becky Hammon, and James Borrego, members of the Spurs' assistant coaching team, have all received interviews from other teams. Eventually, Borrego was hired by the Hornets as the new head coach. In the new season of the NBA, the Spurs continued to prosper.

In addition to Popovich and Borrego, Spurs coaches include Budenholzer, Brett Brown, and Steve Cole. Among them, Cole was taught by two famous coaches, Zen Master and Popovich, and can be regarded as the leader of both schools. He has led the Warriors to win the championship three times in four years, and this year he has a luxury roster of Big 5 and is creating a Warriors dynasty.

Budenholzer left the Hawks, who entered a rebuilding period, this summer to join the Bucks en masse with his coaching staff. Now the Bucks have a better platform than the Hawks. Brett Brown led the 76ers to the Eastern Conference semifinals last season, and he retained his position.

In fact, there are two other coaches in the NBA who are also involved with Popovich, that is, Rockets coach Mike D'Anthony. He spent the 1999-2000 season as a scout for the Spurs, although his coaching style was less influenced by the boss, mainly from his own coaching of European teams. Jazz coach Quinn Snyder was head coach of the Austin Bulls, a development league team affiliated with the Spurs, from 2007 to 2010. Of course, given that he is not on the Spurs coaching staff, people are still used to classifying him as the old coach K who studied under Duke.

If you count the coaches who spent time at the Spurs in the early years, the Spurs department is even bigger. Pelicans coach Gentry was an assistant coach for the Spurs in 1989-90, alongside Popovich and Buford to assist Larry Brown.

The strength of the Spurs system lies in the fact that it not only produces many excellent coaches, but also produces many excellent general managers, Thunder general manager Presti, Nets general manager Sean Marks, and Pelicans general manager Demps are all from the Spurs. The Spurs are still the number one faction in the NBA.

The Spurs faction is very popular, but their grandfather is actually NCAA coach Dean Smith. Popovich benefited from coach Larry Brown, who in turn was a disciple of Dean Smith.

Dean Smith has coached North Carolina for 36 years and has trained Jordan, Larry Brown, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Stackhouse, Vince Carter, Rasheed Wallace and other protégés.

There are many coaches who have been influenced by Dean Smith, including Larry Brown, Roy Williams, George Carr, Dogmo, John Kuster, Billy Cunningham, Matt Doherty, and others. Dean Smith's two major disciples, Larry Brown and George Carr, formed two separate factions. Coaches influenced by Larry Brown include Popovich, John Kaliparry, Gentry, Bob Hill, Bill Serve, Kevin Ollie, George Lynch, and others. Popovich, as the successor of Larry Brown, formed his own new faction in the NBA. Tracing back to the roots, the current Popovich and George Karl ancestors in the NBA are both Dean Smith.

The academic school has both joys and sorrows

There is also a large category of NBA coaches today, who are NCAA coaches, especially some coaches who have coached in college and have good grades before being hired as head coaches by NBA teams, such as Celtics coach Stevens, Thunder coach Billy Donovan and Bulls coach Hojberg.

Stevens, who is known as Popovich's second, led a screw-wrenched Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals last season and his coaching performance was impressive. Stevens' success is not the same as that of Bosshuai. Boshuai has the guidance of the famous teacher Larry Brown, while Stevens does not have a big-name coach as his mentor, he is more like a self-taught genius coach.

Stevens played college basketball but had limited talent, and in 2001 Butler University coach Todd Likelitt promoted Stevens to full-time assistant coaching, beginning his coaching career. Licklett himself did not have a particularly strong coaching record in the NCAA and is now a teaching assistant at the University of Evansville. Stevens started as an assistant coach at Butler University, became a head coach in 2007, and then led underdogs to the NCAA Finals twice in 2010 and 2011, becoming a popular college coach.

Stevens became Celtics' head coach in 2013 and led the Green Army to a gradual rise. At just 41 years old, he is expected to start his own faction in the NBA in the future.

Donovan is the tutelage of coach Piertino and a two-time NCAA champion at the University of Florida. He was a coach from the Academy, but now he has been put to the test. Last season, the Thunder were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, and if the Thunder still do not improve in the new season, then his position may not be guaranteed.

Bulls coach Hojberg miraculously retained his position, and he was hired by the Bulls in 2015 after receiving attention from NBA teams for coaching Iowa State to the NCAA round of 16 in 2014. After Hojberg replaced Thibodeau as head coach, the Bulls' record worsened, and rumors continued that he might be sacked, but he was still not fired. Hojberg is arguably one of the most controversial coaches in the NBA today.

The Zen master department has been transformed

Legendary coaches are able to influence countless people and form a faction. Zen masters Phil Jackson and George Carr also formed their own factions that influenced the NBA.

The Zen master won far more championship rings than Popovich, but unfortunately he did not produce many excellent coaches or managers. His disciple Brian Shaw used to coach the Nuggets, and Fisher used to coach the Knicks, both of which were dismissed because of poor coaching records. Among the current league coaches, Steve Cole and Luke Wharton are both disciples of Zen masters, but neither of them plays triangle offense. Kerr's coaching style was more influenced by Popovich, focusing on opening up space and emphasizing defense, while D'Antoni's style of speeding up and running was influenced by D'Antoni, who was the general manager of the Suns and learned a lot from De Shuai.

The Zen Master's triangular offensive system has died down in the NBA, and the weapons he once relied on to create the Bulls dynasty and the Lakers' OK dynasty have been lost to history.

The influence of the Zen master faction in the NBA has weakened, and so has the influence of the George Carr faction. Carl is the head coach of a thousand miles, and the coaches who have been influenced by him are Pistons coach Devin Casey, Wizards coach Scott Brooks and Trail Blazers coach Tristots. Casey and Stotts used to be assistant coaches for the Mavericks. In the 2010-11 season, Mavericks coach Carlisle led the team to a championship, and Casey and Stotts were his right-hand men, and many people thought that Casey and Stotts were more like people from the Carlisle faction. Of course, the Carlisle faction doesn't produce many elites, and the current NBA head coach is just three of them.

The European genre was emerging

The Suns hired Igor Kokoshkov as head coach this summer, and once again they opted for a European school coach. At present, there are three coaches in the European school: D'Antoni, Kokoshkov and Kenny Atkinson.

Kokoshkov, a native of Serbia, used to play at the University of Belgrade, but had to retire early due to injury. Kokoshkov coached OKK Belgrade in Serbia and came to the United States in 1999 to study as a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri. In 2000, he became an assistant coach of the Clippers and became the first European NBA assistant coach. Kokoshkov later worked as an assistant coach for the Knights, Magic, and Jazz. In addition, Kokoshkov has served as the coach of the national teams of Serbia and Montenegro, Georgia and Slovenia.

In the 2017 European Championships, Kokoshkov created a miracle to lead Slovenia to win the European Championship, which became an important reason why he was hired as the head coach of the Suns. Kokoshkov also became the first European NBA coach. The Suns are looking for a new European school coach to lead the team to rise again. The Suns once hired D'Antoni to set off a run-and-run storm. De Shuai is doing well with the Rockets now, leading the Rockets to the Western Conference Finals last season, and fighting the Warriors in seven games before the winner is decided.

D'Antoni made a name for himself in Europe and won the league title with Benetton in Italy. De Shuai experimented with the 7-second offensive system in Europe and brought it to the NBA, thus driving the rise of the NBA run-and-gun style.

Nets coach Kenny Atkinson's path as a player and coach is very similar to D'Antoni's, except that he is not as famous as De Shuai in his playing days or as a coach, and is equivalent to a poor man's version of De Shuai. Atkinson played in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands as a player. During his 14-year European league career, Atkinson was heavily influenced by European style. After finishing his playing career, Atkinson began his coaching career in France before moving into the NBA as a coach.

Atkinson is also an advocate of the run-and-gun style, and the Nets averaged 12.7 three-pointers per game last season, which is second in the league behind the Rockets. With the resurgence of the German coach, the establishment of Atkinson, and the addition of Kokoshkov, the European style of the NBA gradually emerged.

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