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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of Golden State Warriors Head Coaches
The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco, California. The franchise had been known as the Philadelphia Warriors and the San Francisco Warriors, due to it previously being based in or near those cities. The team is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Warriors initially joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as the Philadelphia Warriors in 1946, and won the first BAA championship title in the same year under coach Eddie Gottlieb. The Warriors later joined the NBA at its foundation in 1949. The Warriors' record was 26–42 in their first NBA season and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Syracuse Nationals. Franklin Mieuli and the Diners Club put together a group of 40 local investors to move the Warriors to San Francisco before the 1962–63 NBA season, with Mieuli eventually buying all the shares of the franchise to keep the team from collapsing and to keep it in the area. The team became the Golden State Warriors and moved to Oakland before the 1971–72 NBA season.

There have been 25 head coaches for the Warriors franchise. The franchise won their first NBA championship as the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1956 NBA Finals, and were coached by George Senesky. Their second title was won as the Golden State Warriors in 1975, under coach Al Attles, who played with and coached the Warriors for 25 seasons. He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached and wins. Steve Kerr, who coached the Warriors to four championships in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022, leads the franchise in winning percentage for games coached, as well as playoff games coached and wins.

Frank McGuire is one of the members of the franchise that has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches, while being the only one to do so that has spent his whole career with the franchise. Alex Hannum, Don Nelson, and Bill Sharman are the only other members of the franchise that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Hannum, Nelson, and Kerr have both received the NBA Coach of the Year award once. Nelson has also been named one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history. Four former players for the Warriors, Attles, Johnston, George Lee, and Senesky went on to coach for the franchise.

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
# Number of coaches
† Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Warriors
*† Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
and spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Warriors

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2023–24 season.

# Name Term GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
Philadelphia Warriors
1 Eddie Gottlieb* 1946–1955 581 263 318 .453 32 15 17 .469 1 Championship (1947)
2 George Senesky* 1955–1958 216 119 97 .551 20 10 10 .500 1 Championship (1956)
3 Al Cervi 1958–1959 72 32 40 .444 — — — —
4 Neil Johnston* 1959–1961 154 95 59 .617 12 4 8 .333
5 Frank McGuire*† 1961–1962 80 49 31 .613 12 6 6 .500
San Francisco Warriors
6 Bob Feerick 1962–1963 80 31 49 .388 — — — —
7 Alex Hannum† 1963–1966 240 100 140 .417 12 5 7 .417 1963–64 NBA Coach of the Year
8 Bill Sharman† 1966–1968 163 87 76 .534 25 13 12 .520
9 George Lee* 1968–1970 134 63 71 .470 6 2 4 .333
10 Al Attles* 1970–1971 (as player-coach) 122 49 63 .438 5 1 4 .200
Golden State Warriors
— Al Attles* 1971–1980 707 394 323 .550 56 29 27 .518 1 Championship (1975)
11 Johnny Bach* 1980 21 6 15 .286 — — — —
— Al Attles* 1980–1983 246 114 132 .463 — — — —
— Johnny Bach* 1983–1986 246 89 157 .362 — — — —
12 George Karl† 1986–1988 146 58 88 .397 10 4 6 .400
13 Ed Gregory* 1988 18 4 14 .222 — — — —
14 Don Nelson† 1988–1995 537 277 260 .516 24 9 15 .375 1991–92 NBA Coach of the Year
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
15 Bob Lanier* 1995 37 12 25 .324 — — — —
16 Rick Adelman† 1995–1997 164 66 98 .402 — — — —
17 P.J. Carlesimo 1997–1999 159 46 113 .289 — — — —
18 Garry St. Jean 1999–2000 55 13 42 .236 — — — —
19 Dave Cowens 2000–2001 105 25 80 .238 — — — —
20 Brian Winters 2001–2002 59 13 46 .220 — — — —
21 Eric Musselman 2002–2004 164 75 89 .457 — — — —
22 Mike Montgomery* 2004–2006 164 68 96 .415 — — — —
— Don Nelson† 2006–2010 328 145 183 .442 11 5 6 .455 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
23 Keith Smart 2010–2011 82 36 46 .439 — — — —
24 Mark Jackson* 2011–2014 230 121 109 .526 19 9 10 .474
25 Steve Kerr* 2014–present 793 519 274 .654 140 99 41 .707 4 Championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
2015–16 NBA Coach of the Year