List of Milwaukee Bucks head coaches explained
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are a member of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team plays their home games at the Fiserv Forum. The Bucks are owned by Wes Edens and Marc Lasry, with Jon Horst as their general manager.
Since the team was formed in, there have been 15 head coaches for the Bucks franchise.[1] The franchise won its first NBA championship in the 1971 NBA Finals under the leadership of its first coach, Larry Costello, and another in the 2021 NBA Finals under Coach Mike Budenholzer (the only other Bucks' coach other than Don Nelson to have won coach of the year). Don Nelson is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (884), most regular season games won (540), most playoff games coached (88), and most playoff games won (42). Nelson is also the only Bucks coach to win an NBA Coach of the Year Award while also being one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. Larry Krystkowiak and Joe Prunty are the only people to have spent their entire head coaching career with the Bucks. Mike Dunleavy, Krystkowiak, and Scott Skiles have played and coached for the Bucks.[2] [3] [4] Skiles was the head coach of the Bucks from 2008 until he and the team mutually agreed to part ways in 2013.
Key
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
Win% | Winning percentage |
| Number of coaches |
| Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Bucks |
| | |
Coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the .
Notes
- A running total of the number of coaches of the Milwaukee Bucks. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
- Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.
References
- General
- Web site: Milwaukee Bucks Coach Register. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. December 22, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081222075634/http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIL/coaches.html. live.
- Specific
Notes and References
- Web site: Season Records & Recaps. NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. November 8, 2008. November 6, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081106075204/http://www.nba.com/bucks/history/00400459.html. live.
- Web site: Mike Dunleavy Playing Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. February 17, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110217180141/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dunlemi01.html. live.
- Web site: Larry Krystkowiak Playing Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. December 19, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191219042238/https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/krystla01.html. live.
- Web site: Scott Skiles Playing Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. October 16, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081016092609/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/skilesc01.html. live.
- Web site: Larry Costello Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. March 23, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190323195545/https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/costela01c.html. live.
- Web site: Top 10 Coaches in NBA History. NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. October 9, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20120209033542/http://www.nba.com/history/top_10_coaches.html. February 9, 2012. dead.
- Web site: Don Nelson Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. May 19, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110519012106/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/nelsodo01c.html. live.
- Web site: Del Harris Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. March 9, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110309152917/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/harride99c.html. live.
- Web site: Frank Hamblem Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. July 1, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080701134159/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/hamblfr99c.html. live.
- Web site: Mike Dunleavy Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. June 1, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080601054642/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/dunlemi01c.html. live.
- Web site: Chris Ford Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. November 8, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081108001454/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/fordch01c.html. live.
- Web site: George Karl Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. November 24, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101124081001/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/karlge01c.html. live.
- Web site: Terry Porter Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. July 28, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728054316/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/portete01c.html. live.
- Web site: Terry Stotts Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. December 1, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081201202357/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/stottte99c.html. live.
- Web site: Larry Krystkowiak Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. November 8, 2008. October 10, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081010163913/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/krystla01c.html. live.
- Web site: Scott Skiles Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. May 14, 2010. October 4, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111004003228/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/skilesc01c.html. live.
- Web site: Jim Boylan Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. January 10, 2013. January 17, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130117193245/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/boylaji99c.html. live.
- Web site: Larry Drew Coaching Record. Sports Reference LLC. basketball-reference.com. April 17, 2014. November 1, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101101034503/http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/drewla01c.html. live.
- Web site: Bucks name Jason Kidd coach. ESPN.com. July 1, 2014. July 1, 2014. June 30, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160630031811/http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11161771/milwaukee-bucks-officially-name-jason-kidd-coach-trade. live.
- Web site: Woods. Mark. Joe P Game for One Final Family Trip. MVP. 15 September 2017. 16 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170916011010/http://www.mvp247.com/2017/09/prunty-last-ride/. live.
- Web site: Coach of the Year. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. NBA.com. January 26, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20100915001144/http://www.nba.com/history/awards_coachofyear.html. September 15, 2010. dead.
- Web site: Mike Budenholzer Named Head Coach Of The Milwaukee Bucks. NBA.com. May 17, 2018. May 17, 2018. November 9, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032625/http://www.nba.com/bucks/news/mike-budenholzer-named-head-coach-milwaukee-bucks. live.