Lakers Head Coach History

Lakers owners gms and coaches year owner general manager head coach 2019 2020 buss family trust.

Lakers head coach history. He replaced byron scott. Kundla bill sharman riley and jackson have been inducted into the basketball hall of fame as a coach. While head coach of the phoenix suns he won nba coach of the year honors for the 200405 nba season after the suns posted 33 more wins than the previous season. King boring and business partner maury winston.

Frank paul vogel is an american professional basketball coach who is the head coach of the los angeles lakers of the national basketball association. George mikan jim pollard jerry west pat riley magic johnson kurt rambis byron scott and luke walton have all played and head coached for the lakers. The complete list of lakers coaches from john kundla to phil jackson. He coached the lakers to their 17th championship and his first over the miami heat in the 2020 nba finals.

Yearly list and summary of coaches including championships won. Six of those coaches won nba titles. The current head coach of the lakers is frank vogel. The lakers franchise began in 1947 when ben berger and morris chalfen of minnesota purchased the recently disbanded detroit gems franchise of the national basketball league nbl for 15000 from gems founderowner c.

Riley started off as an assistant coach with the lakers in 1979 before finally being promoted to the head coach post in 1981. In his first season with the lakers the team improved upon their franchise worst 1765 record from the previous year finishing 2656. On april 29 2016 the lakers hired walton to become their new head coach once the warriors season ended in the 2016 nba finals. Los angeles lakers history of coaches.

After being counted out the entire year in favor of teams like the la clippers and milwaukee bucks the lakers won the 2020 nba championship. Vogel previously served as an assistant coach of the pacers philadelphia 76ers and boston celtics. They hired john kundla as their first head coach. Despite people trying to discredit this title the larger consensus agrees that this was one of the hardest championship wins in nba history.

He has also been the head coach for the indiana pacers and orlando magic. Phil jackson got 5 of his nba record 11 while coaching the lakers john kundla also got 5 championships all in the minneapolis lakers era pat riley got 4 while coaching most of the showtime years bill sharman had the best streak in. In 72 nba seasons the lakers have had 27 coaches.