Since this season is the 75th anniversary of the league, the NBA has also made a large number of rankings, and recently announced the top 15 head coaches in the history of the league, and there is no specific ranking.
The release of this list has caused great criticism, so the US media "FW" has also selected the top 25 coaches of the NBA's greatest, of which Kerr is fifth and Popovich is third.
1st place: Phil Jackson (1155 wins, 485 losses), 11 championships, one-time best coach, four-time All-Star head coach.
There is no doubt that the top spot belongs to Phil Jackson, who has won 11 championships in succession in terms of personal team achievements, ranking first in the league, including three consecutive triple crowns (two Bulls period, one Lakers period).
At the same time, he not only has 11 championships in the playoffs, but also has the highest record in history during the regular season, with a 70.4% win rate.
And he's very good at dealing with top stars, from Jordan, Pippen, Rodman to Kobe, O'Neal and Artest, he's always able to get personality players to focus all their energy on the court.
Second place: Cardinal Auerbach (938 wins, 479 losses), 9 championships, 1 best coach, 11 all-star head coaches.
Auerbach's greatest achievement was naturally to lead the Green Army to 8 consecutive championships, and then he wore a hat and smoked a cigarette, which became the most iconic scene in NBA history.
It was under his persuasion that a number of top players gave up the data and played for the whole team, which allowed them to beat the teams led by Chamberlain in succession, and what is even more amazing is that Auerbach did not have any assistant coaches during his tenure, which shows his top coaching ability.
Third place: Popovich (1332 wins, 689 losses), 5 championships, 3 best coaches, 4 all-star head coaches.
Under Popovich's leadership, the Spurs entered the playoffs for 22 consecutive seasons, during which time they have been a reasonable championship-level team and have won the championship five times.
In addition to leading the team to create miracles, Popovich is also a legend in terms of talent training, the Spurs assistant coach has been out of the division, and the Spurs coach has gradually formed in the league, which is a force that cannot be ignored in modern basketball.
Fourth place: Riley (1210 wins, 694 losses), 5 championships, 3 best coaches, 9 all-star head coaches.
Most of Riley's accolades came from the Lakers in the '80s, who led the Lakers to four championships before he waited 20 years to win his fifth championship with the Heat.
Compared to the accumulation of personal honors, Riley's all-round ability during the stage of coaching is amazing, and during the Lakers, he led the team to play a smooth "Showtime" performance.
Since then, the Knicks have built a slow confrontational tactic around Ewing, and then a half-court tactical style of play for the Heat.
Fifth place: Kerr (418 wins, 187 losses), 3 overall titles, 1 best manager, 2 all-star head coaches.
As a representative of the younger generation of coaches, Cole has the fifth-highest number of coaching championships in history and the third-largest coaching team winning rate in history.
More importantly, his coaching career is still at its peak, and there are also stars such as Curry, Clay, Dream, Wiggins, Cuminga, etc., and it is still possible to accumulate a lot of honors in the future.
6-15: Sloan, Holtzman, KC Jones, Chuck Daly, Larry Brown, Spoo, Lenny Wilkens, Rivers, Jack Ramsey and Donald Nelson
16-25: Rudy Tomjanovic, Bill Russell, Billy Cunningham, Dick Motta, Tom Heinthorne, George Carl, Carlisle, Budenholzer, Adelman and Tyrenlu.