List of Dallas Mavericks head coaches

The Dallas Mavericks are an American professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They play in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).^[1] The team joined the NBA in 1980 as an expansion team,^[2] and won their first Western Conference championship in 2006.^[3] The Mavericks have played their home games at the American Airlines Center since 2001.^[4] The Mavericks are owned by Mark Cuban, and Donnie Nelson is their general manager.^[5]

There have been nine head coaches for the Mavericks franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Dick Motta, who served for two non-consecutive stints, and coached for nine seasons with the Mavericks. Motta is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (738); Don Nelson, Donnie Nelson's father, is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season game wins (339); Avery Johnson is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (47), the most playoff-game wins (23), and the highest winning percentage in the regular season (.735). Nelson is also named one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.^[6] Johnson led the Mavericks to the franchise's first Finals appearance in 2006, only to lose to the Miami Heat in six games.^[3] Johnson is also the only Mavericks coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 2005–06 season.^[7] Quinn Buckner and Jim Cleamons have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Mavericks. Only one of the Mavericks coaches, Don Nelson has been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.^[8] Rick Carlisle has been the head coach of the Mavericks since 2008.^[9] Carlisle led the Mavericks to the franchise's first NBA Championship in its second Finals appearance, defeating the Miami Heat in six games in the 2011 NBA Finals.

Key

GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
Win%	Winning percentage
#	Number of coaches[a]
*	Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Mavericks
	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[b]	GC	W	L	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%	Achievements	Reference
			Regular season				Playoffs
7000100000000000000♠1	Motta, DickDick Motta	1980–1987	574	267	307	.465	28	11	17	.393		[10]
7000200000000000000♠2	MacLeod, JohnJohn MacLeod	1987–1989	175	96	79	.549	17	10	7	.588		[11]
7000300000000000000♠3	Adubato, RichieRichie Adubato	1989–1992	264	94	170	.356	3	0	3	.000		[12]
7000400000000000000♠4	Heard, GarGar Heard	1992–1993	53	9	44	.170	—	—	—	—		[13]
7000500000000000000♠5	Buckner, QuinnQuinn Buckner*	1993–1994	82	13	69	.159	—	—	—	—		[14]
7000600000000000000♠—	Motta, DickDick Motta	1994–1996	164	62	102	.378	—	—	—	—		[10]
7000700000000000000♠6	Cleamons, JimJim Cleamons*	1996–1997	98	28	70	.286	—	—	—	—		[15]
7000800000000000000♠7	Nelson, DonDon Nelson	1997–2005	590	339	251	.575	43	19	24	.442	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[6]	[16]
7000900000000000000♠8	Johnson, AveryAvery Johnson	2005–2008	264	194	70	.735	47	23	24	.489	2005–06 NBA Coach of the Year[7] 2005–06 Western Conference championship[3]	[17]
7001100000000000000♠9	Carlisle, RickRick Carlisle	2008–present	640	380	260	.594	53	27	26	.509	1 NBA Championship (2011)	[18]

• 
  Don Nelson as a head coaches for the Dallas Mavericks in 1997–2005
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  Avery Johnson as a head coaches for the Dallas Mavericks in 2005–2008
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  Rick Carlisle is the current coach for the Dallas Mavericks.including one trip to the NBA championship in 2011.

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the Mavericks. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

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