List of Oklahoma City Thunder head coaches

The Oklahoma City Thunder plays at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, since 2008.

Billy Donovan is the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2015–.

Scott Brooks is the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2008–2015.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is an American professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It plays in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was known as the Seattle SuperSonics from 1967 to 2008. The team plays its home games at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.^[1] As of October 2008, the Thunder is currently owned by Professional Basketball Club LLC and coached by Billy Donovan, with Sam Presti as its general manager. The team was formed in 1967. After spending 41 years in Seattle, Washington, the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City. Owner Clay Bennett, who purchased the team in 2006, sought to get public funding for a new arena in Seattle, or a major renovation of the KeyArena in 2007. After failing to do so, he decided to move the team to Oklahoma City.^[2] Seattle sued Bennett's group to enforce the lease that required the team to stay until 2010. The two sides reached a $45 million settlement to pay off the team's lease with KeyArena in July 2008.^[3][4]

There have been 16 head coaches for the Thunder franchise. The franchise won its only NBA championship in the 1979 NBA Finals while coached by Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens. Wilkens is the only member of the franchise to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.^[5] He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached, regular-season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won. Wilkens, Nate McMillan and Bob Weiss formerly played for the team in Seattle.^[6][7][8] Former head coach Scott Brooks is the only coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award with the franchise.^[9]

Key

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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2014–15 season.

#	Name	Term[b]	GC	W	L	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%	Achievements	Reference
			Regular season				Playoffs
7000100000000000000♠1	Bianchi, AlAl Bianchi	1967–1969	164	53	111	.323	0	0	0	–		[10]
7000200000000000000♠2	Wilkens, LennyLenny Wilkens	1969–1972 (as player-coach)	246	121	125	.492	0	0	0	–	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[11]	[5]
7000300000000000000♠3	Nissalke, TomTom Nissalke	1972–1973	45	13	32	.289	0	0	0	–		[12]
7000400000000000000♠4	Buckwalter, BuckyBucky Buckwalter	1973	37	13	24	.351	0	0	0	–		[13]
7000500000000000000♠5	Russell, BillBill Russell	1973–1977	328	162	166	.494	15	6	9	.400		[14]
7000600000000000000♠6	Hopkins, BobBob Hopkins*	1977	22	5	17	.227	0	0	0	–		[15]
7000700000000000000♠—	Wilkens, LennyLenny Wilkens	1977–1985	634	357	277	.563	69	37	32	.536	1 NBA championship (1979) One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[11]	[5]
7000800000000000000♠7	Bickerstaff, BernieBernie Bickerstaff	1985–1990	410	202	208	.493	27	12	15	.444		[16]
7000900000000000000♠8	Jones, K. C.K. C. Jones	1990–1992	118	59	59	.500	5	2	3	.400		[17]
7001100000000000000♠9	Kloppenburg, BobBob Kloppenburg	1992	4	2	2	.500	0	0	0	–		[18]
7001110000000000000♠10	Karl, GeorgeGeorge Karl	1992–1998	534	384	150	.719	80	40	40	.500		[19]
7001120000000000000♠11	Westphal, PaulPaul Westphal	1998–2000	147	76	71	.517	5	2	3	.400		[20]
7001130000000000000♠12	McMillan, NateNate McMillan	2000–2005	395	212	183	.537	16	8	8	.500		[21]
7001140000000000000♠13	Weiss, BobBob Weiss	2005–2006	30	13	17	.433	0	0	0	–		[22]
7001150000000000000♠14	Hill, BobBob Hill	2006–2007	134	53	81	.396	0	0	0	–		[23]
7001160000000000000♠15	Carlesimo, P. J.P. J. Carlesimo	2007–2008	95	21	74	.221	0	0	0	–		[24]
7001170000000000000♠16	Brooks, ScottScott Brooks*	2008–2015[25]	545	338	207	.620	73	39	34	.534	2009–10 NBA Coach of the Year[9]	[26]
7001170000000000000♠17	Donovan, BillyBilly Donovan*	2015–present	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	–		[27]

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the SuperSonics/Thunder. 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.

References

General

Specific

http://www.crutchoesd.org/