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So far this season, two teams in the league have fired their head coaches, including the departure of Grizzlies coach David Fitzdale, which has also caused a lot of controversy, and has become the focus of media discussion after old acquaintance LeBron James stood up to express his support.

Fitzdale has coached the Grizzlies in 101 games and has a 50-51 win rate of nearly 50 percent, which isn't too bad for a small-ball team. However, considering that David Blatter's coaching win rate was a gorgeous 67.5% when he was fired by the Cavaliers, there must be nothing to be unconvinced.

Today, the author will make a simple inventory of the coaches in the history of the NBA from the perspective of data:

NBA coaching staff configuration

An NBA team does not have only one coach, behind the head coach, the team will also have multiple assistant coaches, each with a division of labor, and there may be a division of high and low levels.

Take the Dallas Mavericks, for example: Rick Carlisle is the head coach of this team, and under him, there are four assistant coaches including Melvin Hunter, Caleb Canales, Jamal Moseley, and Darrell Armstrong. Among them: Hunter is the team's chief assistant coach, focusing on the team's defense; Canales' role is to integrate the team's offensive tactics; In addition to his day-to-day support duties, Mosley coached the Mavericks' summer league team; As for Armstrong, who is relatively familiar to everyone, he is mainly responsible for the development of young players......

In fact, many NBA head coaches only play a comprehensive coordination work, similar to the general manager of a company, setting directions, making decisions, and instilling some psychological chicken soup from time to time, but the specific affairs are left to the people under their hands to complete, and even when some teams suspend games, it is the assistant coach who is drawing the tactical board.

As the NBA professionalization becomes more and more perfect, the division of labor of assistant coaches is becoming more and more detailed, more and more clear, in addition to the offensive, defensive, and shooting coaches, and even the ...... responsible for psychological counseling, in a word: as long as the owner is willing to invest, the players can enjoy the meticulous "care and care" from the coaching staff.

However, in this article, let's just talk about the managers who stand in front of the stage and enjoy the spotlight.

Records for the number of coaching games

Among the 324 head coaches in the entire history of the NBA, the most coached games are the famous "Thousand Wins Coach" Lenny Wilkens. As of today, there are nine members in the NBA's 1,000-game coaching club, but Wilkens was the first to reach 1,000 coaching wins and create the term.

Wilkens began his NBA coaching career in Seattle in the 1969-70 season and remained active in the league until the 2004-05 season, during which he intermittently coached six teams including the SuperSonics, Trail Blazers, Cavaliers, Hawks, Raptors, and Knicks, with a total of 2,487 coaching games, ranking first in history.

On opposite sides of Wilkens, the two coaches hold the lowest number of coaching games in NBA history: Lou set the NBA's record for the shortest-lived coach in 1946-47, and was replaced by Dick Fitzgerald in just one spell with the Toronto Huskies. And his successor was not much luckier than him, having been fired after only three coaches.

The Huskies used four coaches that season, but it wasn't surprising that the NBA was in the midst of chaos at the time. In contrast, Bob Stark is clearly more embarrassed 50 years later - in the 1996-97 season, Washington Bullets fired head coach Jim Lenham after 46 games, Stark coached one game as interim head coach, and then the Wizards found a new head coach Bernie Bickerstaff, and Lenham's coaching career came to an end.

Record number of wins

Wilkens is the NBA record holder for coaching games and the first coach to win a thousand games, but the NBA coach holds the record for coaching wins. Don Nelson, with a total of 1,335 wins in his NBA coaching career, is three games ahead of Wilkens and ranks first all-time.

The elder Nelson, known as the "Mad Scientist", is best known to Chinese fans for his coaching experience with the Mavericks during the "Nash Nowitzki" era and later the "Black Eight" Warriors, but long before that, he had won 540 games with the Bucks and had already set off a running boom in Golden State in the 90s of the last century. The elder Nelson has coached a total of 2,398 games in his career, with a win rate of 55.7%.

In stark contrast to Hall of Fame coaches like Nelson Sr. and Wilkens, there are nine "0-win coaches" in NBA history: Karl Bennett (Fort Wayne Pistons), Drag Young (Kansas-Omaha Kings), Pete Meyers (Bulls), Tom Barles (New Jersey Nets), Bill Berry (Bulls), Mel Daniels (Pacers), Terry Deisinger (Pistons), and the two aforementioned record holders for the lowest number of coaching games, and Stark.

Coach win percentage record

Compared with the "historical figures" mentioned above, everyone must be more familiar with the NBA's record for the highest coaching win rate: the current head coach of the Warriors, Steve Kerr, as of today, has a total of 224 wins and 45 losses in his coaching career, with a winning rate of 83.3%, far ahead of everyone else, including "Zen Master" Phil Jackson (70.4%), and ranks first in history.

Since taking over as head coach of the Warriors in 2014, Kerr has won at least 67 in three seasons, which is nothing short of incredible. Of course, in addition to Kerr's coaching talent, luck also played a big role in his magical winning percentage, and even so, it is still awe-inspiring.

Because 0 divided by any number equals 0, the NBA's record for the lowest percentage of coaches winning is exactly the same as the record for the lowest number of wins listed above, and 9 "0-win coaches" once again won the bid.

Record number of overall wins

Winning the regular season is certainly something to be happy about, but the championship is the ultimate goal for all players and coaches. Although Phil Jackson's recent experience as president in New York has been hacked a lot, as a coach, he is definitely the biggest winner - Zen Master has won 11 championships in 20 seasons in the NBA, 6 of which came from the Bulls and 5 from the Lakers! Other coaches have a winning rate of more than 5%, even if it is a good result, and his "probability of winning the championship" is more than 50%!

I have to mention the "red-headed" Auerbach, a legendary figure who won 9 crowns in 10 years between 1957 and 66, including a wave of 8 consecutive crowns that have never been won before or since, and is worthy of the name of "Cardinal".

Coach of the Year record

Since the league began to set up the Coach of the Year award in 1962-63, a total of 44 coaches have won the award, and the record for the most "COY" wins is three, held by Nelson Sr., Pat Riley and Greg Popovich. Among them, Popovich's three best coach trophies were won by the Spurs, the elder Nelson came from coaching the Bucks and the Warriors respectively, and Riley was more divine - won one each with the Lakers, Knicks, and Heat.

All-Star coaching record

For NBA coaches, there is another honor that is relatively easy to overlook, and that is the number of times you have coached the All-Star Game, you know, the head coach of the NBA All-Star team is originally determined by the record of the first half of the game, so having the opportunity to coach this event is naturally an affirmation of your work performance. The most coaching player in NBA history was Auerbach, who coached the All-Star East team 11 times in 1957-67.

Rookie coach record

In the 2014-15 season, Kerr led the Warriors to a 67-15 record, setting the best record for a rookie coaching performance in NBA history.

In fact, the only teams in NBA history to surpass this performance are the Warriors in 2015-16 (73 wins), the Bulls in 1996-96 (72 wins), the Lakers in 1971-72 (69 wins), the Celtics in 1972-73 (68 wins) and the 76ers (68 wins) in 1966-67.

Consecutive coaching records

In today's NBA, Popovich has become almost synonymous with coaching. He spent 22 years at San Antonio since taking over the Spurs in 1996-97, setting two all-time records for consecutive coaching hours and total games with the same NBA team. And the record continues.

Record number of teams coached

Young fans may only know Popovich and not Larry Brown, but in fact, the old coach Brown is Bobo's mentor and the senior coach who has coached the most teams in NBA history. In his 27-year NBA coaching career, Brown has served as head coach with nine teams, with the longest streak coming in six seasons with the 76ers.

However, Brown's frequent team changes are not because he is often fired because of his lack of coaching ability, in fact, he has won a total of 1,098 games in his NBA coaching career, and the winning rate has also reached 54.8%, and "firefighting coach" seems to be a more suitable title for him than "wandering coach".

Record of the contract amount

Congratulations to Popovich on being on the list again! In July 2014, the Spurs announced that they had signed Popovich to a multi-year contract, which was later known to be a five-year, $55 million contract with an average annual salary of $11 million, making him the highest-paid coach in NBA history.