Can you name the NBA Coaches with the most career wins (regular season)?

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NBA Coaching Wins Quiz

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Created May 28, 2009 in Sports
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	Vernon Gonsalves:	May 28th, 2009 at 16:38 GMT	13 points
	RIP Chuck

	Kevin:	May 28th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT	1 point
	Boo me not being able to spell the guy with 864. Boo me forgetting the guy with 2010. I suck.

	motrain24:	May 28th, 2009 at 17:26 GMT	0 points
	Spelled the Doc's name wrong too

	WAG:	May 28th, 2009 at 17:35 GMT	4 points
	No rudy t suprises me

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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	May 28th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	3 points
	Auerbach was still the all-time leader until just a few years ago. Hard to believe how many people are passing him now.

	thegrimreaper:	May 28th, 2009 at 18:29 GMT	1 point
	could have used a little bit more time...

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	zalagreensbury:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	-3 points
	go lakers!

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	brianc:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	7 points
	@Nuclear_Knuckles Wilkens passed him a while ago, 1995

	Rom:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:15 GMT	3 points
	It's kind of surprising that 5 of these coaches never won Coach of the Year: Chuck Daly, John McLeod, and Jack Ramsey, Jerry Sloan, and George Karl- considering they won so many games.

	elgato10x:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:16 GMT	4 points
	Wilkins is also the all time leader in coaching losses.

	Jaksiel:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:30 GMT	2 points
	Hm. I would have guessed that Jackson would be the best known, but I wouldn't have predicted that large of a margin over Riley/Brown.

	JohnJF:	May 28th, 2009 at 20:59 GMT	9 points
	Jerry Sloan has deserved Coach of the Year repeatedly. Easily the most underrated coach in American team sports today.

	mister_pianoman:	May 28th, 2009 at 22:25 GMT	2 points
	numbers 1 and 2 in NBA coaching losses are both in the top 10. #s 1 and 7)

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	May 28th, 2009 at 22:29 GMT	2 points
	Brian, in my world, 1995 is "just a few years ago." :) ... Bryant, please identify all those coaches who won titles without great players. One could be a great coach even without a lot of talent on hand, and one could be a great coach even if one never manages to win it all, but at a certain point 9 titles speaks for itself. If you don't think Jackson is the equal of Auerbach, that's perfectly defensible. To call him an idiot is obviously ludicrous.

	Kevin:	May 28th, 2009 at 22:44 GMT	3 points
	Yeah... Auerback did it with slackers like Cousy, Russell, and Hondo. Pssh! Phil needs to win with the other Staples Center tenants to be worth anything.

	beckleyman:	May 28th, 2009 at 23:05 GMT	4 points
	@Bryant-You're trying to tell me that Red was a coaching genius and won with nobody like Russell, Hondo, and Cousy? For the era, it was the most dominant team with the best talent-that's why they won all those titles. It's not like it took a genius to coach a team that was the cream of the crop in the NBA in a time when there were only a handful of good teams.

	zalagreensbury:	May 29th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT	2 points
	haters =p

	cocky:	May 29th, 2009 at 08:08 GMT	1 point
	I was surpriesed Red has fallen so far on the list. He is already 8th and will be 9th next year and 10th in two years. Motta won 935? I wonder why he didn't stick around another year to pass Red. I can see if he was fired but you'd think some loser team would have taken him just for the publicity.

	Vernon Gonsalves:	May 29th, 2009 at 11:20 GMT	1 point
	John JF, I concur about Sloan. One of the classiest guys too. Problem is that every year he does something amazing (taking the post Malone/Stockton team to .500) some other feel-good story gets COY (Hubie Brown's comeback taking Memphis to the playoffs)

	bmo1616:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:15 GMT	-1 points
	@beckleyman well guess who scouted, drafted and improved Russell, Cousy, Heinsohn, and Havlicek?? That would be Auerbach. Players like Jordan and Bryant were just handed to Jackson. He also was the first to actively scout black players and changed the game because of it. Not to mention he won 8 more titles as an executive.

	beckleyman:	May 31st, 2009 at 20:53 GMT	2 points
	@Bryant-how many titles did Kobe & Michael have before Phil Jackson walked through that door? I find it funny you say Kobe didn't improve under Jackson, because as I remember it pre-Phil Kobe was top 10, maybe top 5-now he's regarded as maybe the best player in the world with Lebron. Jackson has also been able to make guys like Pippen, Odoms, and Gasol and get max production out of them. I never said Red wasn't a good coach or didn't have a good basketball mind, but Jackson is a great tactician in his own right, love him or hate him.

	kenechi:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 22:45 GMT	1 point
	i should have got george karl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	schwitze:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 10:17 GMT	1 point
	I had no idea so many people had passed Red

	jamakl:	Apr 2nd, 2011 at 11:34 GMT	3 points
	flip saunders passed doug moe recently