List of San Antonio Spurs head coaches

There have been 18 head coaches for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise, which was founded as the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967.cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/spurs/history/spurs_history.html|title=San Antonio Spurs History|publisher=NBA.com|accessdate=2008-06-12] The team suffered from poor attendance and general disinterest by fans in Dallas, and the name "Dallas" was dropped in favor of "Texas" during the 1970–71 season in an attempt to make the team regional. This also proved a failure and the team returned full-time to use "Dallas" for the 1971–72 season.cite web|url=http://www.remembertheaba.com/Dallas-Chaparrals.html|title=Dallas Chaparrals History|publisher=RememberTheABA.com|accessdate=2008-06-12] The team was put up for sale after missing the playoffs in the 1972–73 season. The team was acquired by a group of 36 San Antonio businessmen, led by Angelo Drossos and Red McCombs, who relocated the team to San Antonio, Texas and renamed it to Spurs. In 1976, the ABA folded, threatening the future of San Antonio's sole professional sports franchise. The NBA, however, decided to admit four ABA teams into the league, with the Spurs being one of them, along with the Denver Nuggets, the Indiana Pacers and the New York Nets.

The franchise won their first NBA championship in the 1999 NBA Finals coached by Gregg Popovich. The Spurs won three additional NBA championships in 2003 NBA Finals, 2005 NBA Finals, and 2007 NBA Finals under Popovich. Popovich is the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/popovgr99c.html|title=Gregg Popovich's Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-11] He also won the NBA Coach of the Year award for 2002–03 season.cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/history/awards_coachofyear.html|title=Coach of the Year|publisher=NBA.com|accessdate=2008-06-12] Larry Brown is the only member of the franchise that has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/brownla01c.html|title=Larry Brown's Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-11] Bob Bass, who has coached with the Spurs for a total of four terms, leads the franchise in most number of terms coached.cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/bassbo99c.html|title=Bob Bass Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-11] Cliff Hagan, Max Williams, Bill Blakely, Dave Brown, Morris McHone, Jerry Tarkanian and Popovich spent their entire coaching careers with the Spurs.cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/hagancl01c.html|title=Cliff Hagan Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-08] cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/willima99c.html|title=Max Williams Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-08] cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/blakebi99c.html|title=Bill Blakely Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-08] cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/brownda99c.html|title=Dave Brown Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-08] cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/mchonmo99c.html|title=Morris McHone Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-11] cite web|url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/tarkaje99c.html|title=Jerry Tarkanian's Coaching Record|publisher=basketball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-06-11]

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