NBA Coach of the Year
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The National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1962–63 NBA season. The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is nam
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Hall of Famer Red Auerbach won the award in the 1964–65 season. The award was later named after him.
Hall of Famer Phil Jackson won the award in the 1995–96 season, coaching the Chicago Bulls to 72 wins in a season.
Mike D'Antoni led the 2004–05 Phoenix Suns to a 33-win increase from the previous season.
Michael Burton Brown is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. He was previously the head coach of the Sacramento Kings, Clev
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…is current Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla. Gregg Popovich, Don Nelson and Pat Riley have each won the award three times, while Hubie Brown, Mike Brown, Mike Budenholzer, Mike D'Antoni, Bill Fitch, Cotton Fitzsimmons, Gene Shue, and Tom Thibodeau have each won it twice. No coach has won consecutive…
Brown with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2008
Brown with Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who he coached the entirety of his first stint in Cleveland
Brown with referee Joey Crawford, Brown was fined $25,000 for criticizing Crawford in 2009