List of Los Angeles Clippers head coaches

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The Clippers have played their home games at the Staples Center since 1999.

The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).[1] The Clippers joined the NBA in 1970 as an expansion team. The team has had three names since its inception: the Buffalo Braves (1970–1978), the San Diego Clippers (1978–1984), and the Los Angeles Clippers (1984–present). The Clippers are the oldest franchise in the NBA to have never reached the league finals.[2] The team has played its home games at the Staples Center since 1999.[3] The Clippers are owned by Steve Ballmer, and Dave Wohl is their general manager.

There have been 25 head coaches for the Clippers. The franchise's first head coach was Dolph Schayes, who coached for 83 games in two seasons. Mike Dunleavy is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached (492) and regular-season games won (194). Jack Ramsay is the franchise's all-time leader in playoff games coached (22), and playoff games won (9). Ramsay, Larry Brown, Bill Fitch, Dunleavy, Vinny Del Negro, and Doc Rivers are the only coaches to have reached the playoffs with the Clippers. Ramsay and Fitch were also named as two of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA History in 1996.[4] Ramsay and Brown are the only Clippers coaches to have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.[5][6] The most recent head coach of the Clippers is Doc Rivers.

Key

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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015–16 season."

# Name Term GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
Buffalo Braves
1 Dolph Schayes 1970–1971 83 22 61 .265 0 0 0 – [7]
2 Johnny McCarthy* 1971–1972 81 22 59 .272 0 0 0 – [8]
3 Jack Ramsaydagger 1972–1976 328 158 170 .482 22 9 13 .409 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history (1996)[4] [5]
4 Tates Locke* 1976–1977 46 16 30 .348 0 0 0 – [9]
5 Bob MacKinnon 1977 7 3 4 .429 0 0 0 – [10]
6 Joe Mullaney 1977 29 11 18 .379 0 0 0 – [11]
7 Cotton Fitzsimmons 1977–1978 82 27 55 .329 0 0 0 – [12]
San Diego Clippers
8 Gene Shue 1978–1980 164 78 86 .476 0 0 0 – [13]
9 Paul Silas 1980–1983 246 78 168 .317 0 0 0 – [14]
10 Jim Lynam 1983–1984 82 30 52 .366 0 0 0 – [15]
Los Angeles Clippers
— Jim Lynam 1984–1985 61 22 39 .361 0 0 0 – [15]
11 Don Chaney 1985–1987 185 53 132 .286 0 0 0 – [16]
— Gene Shue 1987–1989 120 27 93 .225 0 0 0 – [13]
12 Don Casey 1989–1990 126 41 85 .325 0 0 0 – [17]
13 Mike Schuler 1990–1992 127 52 75 .409 0 0 0 – [18]
14 Mack Calvin* 1992 2 1 1 .500 0 0 0 – [19]
15 Larry Browndagger 1992–1993 117 64 53 .547 10 4 6 .400 [6]
16 Bob Weiss 1993–1994 82 27 55 .329 0 0 0 – [20]
17 Bill Fitch 1994–1998 328 99 229 .302 3 0 3 .000 One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history (1996)[4] [21]
18 Chris Ford 1998–2000 95 20 75 .211 0 0 0 – [22]
19 Jim Todd* 2000 37 4 33 .108 0 0 0 – [23]
20 Alvin Gentry 2000–2003 222 89 133 .401 0 0 0 – [24]
21 Dennis Johnson* 2003 24 8 16 .333 0 0 0 – [25]
22 Mike Dunleavy, Sr. 2003–2010 541 215 326 .397 12 7 5 .583 [26]
23 Kim Hughes* 2010 33 8 25 .242 0 0 0 – [27]
24 Vinny Del Negro 2010–2013 230 128 102 .557 17 6 11 .353 [28]
25 Doc Rivers 2013–present 246 166 80 .675 32 15 17 .469 [29]

  • Dennis Johnson coached the Clippers for 24 games.

  • Vinny Del Negro coached the Clippers to back to back playoff appearances during his three-year tenure with the team.

  • Doc Rivers is the current Clippers head coach.

References

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