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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of Philadelphia 76ers Head Coaches
The Philadelphia 76ers are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia,. They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Formerly known as the Syracuse Nationals, the 76ers joined the NBA when it was founded in 1949. The Nationals had a record of 51–13 in their first NBA season under coach Al Cervi and won the Eastern Division crown. The franchise were purchased by Philadelphian Irv Kosloff and Ike Richma in the spring of 1963; the NBA approved their franchise shift on May 22 and name change to the Philadelphia 76ers on August 6. This brought professional basketball back to the city, which had been without a team since the Golden State Warriors left Philadelphia in 1962. After coaching the 76ers since 2010, Doug Collins resigned as head coach on April 18, 2013 following the 2012–13 season. Brett Brown was hired to be the head coach of the 76ers on August 15, 2013 prior to the start of the 2013–14 season. Brown was released as head coach after a 4–0 loss to the Celtics in the 2020 playoffs. On October 3, 2020 Doc Rivers was announced as his replacement.

There have been 24 head coaches for the Philadelphia 76ers franchise. The franchise won their first NBA championship as the Syracuse Nationals in the 1955 NBA Finals under coach Cervi. Their second title was won as the Philadelphia 76ers in 1967, coached by Alex Hannum, who has the highest career winning percentage for the 76ers. Billy Cunningham, who played and coached with the 76ers for 17 years, is the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins. He coached the team to their most recent title in 1983.

Hannum, Jack Ramsay, and Larry Brown are the only members of the franchise to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches. Cervi, Paul Seymour, and Kevin Loughery served as a player-coaches, and Cervi, after retiring as a player, continued to coach the team for the rest of the season that he retired during and five additional seasons. Six other former players, Hannum, Dolph Schayes, Cunningham, Matt Guokas, Fred Carter, and Maurice Cheeks went on to coach for the franchise.

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
# Number of coaches
* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Nationals/76ers
† Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2023–24 season. The list does not include NBL seasons.

# Name Term GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
Syracuse Nationals
1 Al Cervi^ 1949–1953 (as player-coach)
1953–1956 		495 294 201 .594 60 34 26 .567 1 championship (1955)
2 Paul Seymour 1956–1960 (as player-coach) 279 155 124 .556 20 9 11 .450
3 Alex Hannum† 1960–1963 239 127 112 .531 18 8 10 .444
Philadelphia 76ers
4 Dolph Schayes 1963–1964 (as player-coach)
1964–1966 		240 129 111 .538 21 9 12 .429 1965–66 NBA Coach of the Year
— Alex Hannum† 1966–1968 163 130 33 .798 28 18 10 .643 1 championship (1967)
5 Jack Ramsay† 1968–1972 328 174 154 .530 17 5 12 .294 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
6 Roy Rubin* 1972–1973 51 4 47 .078 — — — —
7 Kevin Loughery 1973 (as player-coach) 31 5 26 .161 — — — —
8 Gene Shue 1973–1977 334 157 177 .470 22 11 11 .500
9 Billy Cunningham* 1977–1985 650 454 196 .698 105 66 39 .629 1 championship (1983)
10 Matt Guokas 1985–1988 207 119 88 .575 17 8 9 .471
11 Jim Lynam 1988–1992 367 194 173 .529 21 8 13 .381
12 Doug Moe 1992–1993 56 19 37 .339 — — — —
13 Fred Carter* 1993–1994 108 32 76 .296 — — — —
14 John Lucas 1994–1996 164 42 122 .256 — — — —
15 Johnny Davis 1996–1997 82 22 60 .268 — — — —
16 Larry Brown† 1997–2003 460 255 205 .554 58 28 30 .483 2000–01 NBA Coach of the Year
17 Randy Ayers 2003–2004 52 21 31 .404 — — — —
18 Chris Ford 2004 30 12 18 .400 — — — —
19 Jim O'Brien 2004–2005 82 43 39 .524 5 1 4 .200
20 Maurice Cheeks 2005–2008 269 122 146 .455 6 2 4 .333
21 Tony DiLeo 2008–2009 59 32 27 .542 6 2 4 .333
22 Eddie Jordan 2009–2010 82 27 55 .329 — — — —
23 Doug Collins 2010–2013 230 110 120 .478 18 8 10 .444
24 Brett Brown* 2013–2020 565 221 344 .391 26 12 14 .462
25 Doc Rivers 2020–2023 236 154 82 .653 35 20 15 .571
26 Nick Nurse 2023–present 82 47 35 .573 — — — –