List of New York Knicks head coaches

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Kurt Rambis is the Knicks interim head coach

The New York Knickerbockers are an American professional basketball team based in New York City. They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play their home games at Madison Square Garden. The franchise's official name "Knickerbockers" came from the style of pants Dutch settlers wore when they came to America.[1] Having joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the predecessor of the NBA, in 1946, the Knicks remain as one of the oldest teams in the NBA.[2] During Red Holzman's tenure, the franchise won its only two NBA championships, the 1970 NBA Finals and the 1973 NBA Finals.

There have been 26 head coaches for the New York Knicks franchise. Holzman was the franchise's first Coach of the Year winner and is its all-time leader in regular-season games coached, regular-season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won.[3] Holzman was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986 as a coach.[3] Besides Holzman, Rick Pitino, Don Nelson, Pat Riley, Lenny Wilkens, and Larry Brown have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches. Four coaches have been named to the list of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[4] Neil Cohalan, Joe Lapchick, Vince Boryla, Carl Braun, Eddie Donovan and Herb Williams have spent their entire coaching careers with the Knicks.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Boryla, Braun, Harry Gallatin, Dick McGuire, Willis Reed and Williams formerly played for the Knicks.[11][12][13][14][15][16]


Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
# Number of coaches[a]
* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Knicks
dagger Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Note: Statistics are as of February 8, 2016.

# Name Term[b] GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
1 Neil Cohalan* 1946–1947 60 33 27 .550 5 2 3 .400 [5]
2 Joe Lapchick* 1947–1956 573 326 247 .569 60 30 30 .500 [6]
3 Vince Boryla* 1956–1958 165 80 85 .485 — — — — [7]
4 Andrew Levane 1958–1959 99 48 51 .485 2 0 2 .000 [17]
5 Carl Braun* 1959–1961 (as player-coach) 127 40 87 .315 — — — — [8]
6 Eddie Donovan* 1961–1965 278 84 194 .302 — — — — [9]
7 Harry Gallatin 1965 63 25 38 .397 — — — — [18]
8 Dick McGuire 1965–1967 177 75 102 .424 4 1 3 .250 [19]
9 Red Holzmandagger 1967–1977 783 466 317 .595 95 54 41 .568 1969–70 NBA Coach of the Year
2 Championships (1970, 1973)
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[4]		 [3]
10 Willis Reed 1977–1978 96 49 47 .510 6 2 4 .333 [20]
— Red Holzmandagger 1978–1982 314 147 167 .468 2 0 2 .000 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[4] [3]
11 Hubie Brown 1982–1986 344 138 190 .401 18 8 10 .444 [21]
12 Bob Hill 1986–1987 66 20 46 .303 — — — — [22]
13 Rick Pitinodagger 1987–1989 164 90 74 .549 13 6 7 .462 [23]
14 Stu Jackson 1989–1990 97 52 45 .536 10 4 6 .400 [24]
15 John MacLeod 1990–1991 67 32 35 .478 3 0 3 .000 [25]
16 Pat Rileydagger 1991–1995 328 223 105 .680 63 35 28 .556 1992–93 NBA Coach of the Year
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[4]		 [26]
17 Don Nelsondagger 1995–1996 59 34 25 .576 — — — — One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[4] [27]
18 Jeff Van Gundy 1996–2001 420 248 172 .590 69 37 32 .536 [28]
19 Don Chaney 2001–2004 184 72 112 .391 — — — — [29]
20 Herb Williams* 2004 1 1 0 1.000 — — — — [10]
21 Lenny Wilkensdagger 2004–2005 81 40 41 .494 4 0 4 .000 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[4] [30]
— Herb Williams* 2005 43 16 27 .372 — — — — [10]
22 Larry Browndagger 2005–2006 82 23 59 .280 — — — — [31]
23 Isiah Thomas 2006–2008 164 56 108 .341 — — — — [32]
24 Mike D'Antoni 2008–2012 288 121 167 .420 4 0 4 .000 [33]
25 Mike Woodson 2012–2014 188 109 79 .580 17 7 10 .412 [34]
26 Derek Fisher* 2014–2016 136 40 96 .294 — — — — [35]
27 Kurt Rambis 2016–Present 28 9 19 .321 — — — — — [36]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the Knicks. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

References

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