NBA 75th Anniversary Team
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The NBA 75th Anniversary Team, also referred to as the NBA 75, was chosen in 2021 to honor the 75th anniversary of the founding of the National Basketball Association. It was the fourth and most recen
Members of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team during the halftime ceremony of the 2022 NBA All-Star Game.
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Don Nelson
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Donald Arvid Nelson was an American professional basketball player and head coach. He coached the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Golden State Warriors of the Natio
NBA 75th Anniversary Team
…coaches are Red Holzman in 1998, Red Auerbach in 2006, Chuck Daly in 2009, Jack Ramsay in 2014, and both K. C. Jones and Jerry Sloan in 2020. Sloan and Don Nelson were the only members to never win a championship as a coach; Nelson won five as a player. Wilkens is the only person named to both the coaches and…
Nelson in 2012
Nelson playing for Iowa, c. 1962
Nelson and Phil Jackson battling for rebound in a Celtics vs Knicks game at Boston Garden in 1972
Nelson as the Warriors' head coach in March 2009