Mike D'Antoni
Profile
Chinese name: Mike D'Antoni
English name: mike d'antoni
Nickname: Gentleman Thief, Mustache
Nationality: USA/Italian
Date of birth: May, 9 May 1951
Law School: Marshall University
Occupation: basketball player, coach
Place of Birth: Maules, West Virginia, USA
Coaching team in 19-20: Houston Rockets (announced departure on September 14, 2020)
Player's position: Point guard
Athletes played for the NBA Kings and Spurs; ABA St. Louis Souls; Milan Olympia, Italy
NBA Draft: Selected by the Kansas City-Omaha Kings with the 20th pick in the second round in 1973
Decommissioned: 1990
Retired jersey number: In 2015, Olympia Milan, Italy, retired its no. 8 shirt
Coaching career: 1999, 2004-2020 seasons
Current NBA coaching career regular season stats: 672 wins, 527 losses, 56% win rate
The best record of the current NBA coaching career: 65 wins and 17 losses in the 17-18 season, the first place in the league, reaching the Western Conference Finals
Personal honors
(1) Player period
In the 1973–1974 season, the rookie season was named to the Rookie All-Rookie Team
2 Europa League titles
5 times won the Italian LBA league championship
2 Times Torre italia
In 1985, he won the fiba Clark Cup
In 1987, he won the Fiba Intercontinental Cup
He was voted the league leading scorer six times
He was voted league assist king eight times
(2) Coaching period
Winner of the 1993 European Clark Cup
Winner of the 1995 European And Coppa Italia
Winner of the Italian domestic league in the 1996–97 season
2 NBA Coach of the Year
9 NBA Coach of the Month
In 2017, he won the Coach Association's Coach of the Season Award
"Legendary" coaching
In the 2004-06 season, he coached the Suns, created the "Running Bomb Brigade", and reached the Western Conference Finals twice
In the 2011-12 season, coaching the Knicks, on the verge of leaving class, he created "Lin Crazy"
In the 2017-18 season, he coached the Rockets, created a "three-point team", reached the Western Conference Finals for the third time in his career, fought seven bloody games against the defending champion Golden State Warriors, and finally lost due to the injury of his leggings by love general Chris Paul and failed to reach the Finals.
Stars who have coached
"Peter Pan" Kobe Bryant, "Shark" O'Neal, "Bearded" Harden, "Westbrook" Westbrook, "Queen Bee" Paul, "Answer" Iverson, "Son of the Wind" Nash, "Warcraft" Howard, "Melon" Anthony, "Mr. Key" Billups, "Lone Wolf" Marbury, "Little Bully" Stoudemire, "Lin Crazy" Jeremy Lin