List of Houston Rockets head coaches

The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They have played their home games at Toyota Center since 2003. Founded by Robert Breitbard in San Diego, the team first joined the NBA in 1967 as an expansion team.^[1] After four losing seasons,^[2] however, the team was sold to a group of investors based in Houston.^[1] The group subsequently relocated the team to Houston, where the Rockets have remained for 37 seasons.^[2] The franchise won its only two NBA titles in 1994 and 1995.^[3]

There have been 14 head coaches for the Houston Rockets franchise. Jack McMahon, the team's first head coach, compiled a 61–129 record during his tenure.^[4] Rudy Tomjanovich, who led the Rockets to their two championships, is the franchise's all-time leader in both regular-season and playoff games coached and wins.^[5][3] Alex Hannum is the only Rockets coach to have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.^[6] Tom Nissalke and Don Chaney were named Coach of the Year during their tenures as head coaches. Both Tex Winter and Johnny Egan have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Rockets.^[7][8][9] Egan, Tomjanovich, and Rick Adelman formerly played for the Rockets.^[10][11][12]

Key

GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
Win%	Winning percentage
#	Number of coaches[a]
*	Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Rockets
	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
San Diego Rockets
1	McMahon, JackJack McMahon	1967–1969	7002190000000000000♠ 190	7001610000000000000♠ 61	7002129000000000000♠ 129	.321	6	2	4	.333		[4]
2	Hannum, AlexAlex Hannum	1969–1971	7002138000000000000♠ 138	7001580000000000000♠ 58	7001800000000000000♠ 80	.420	—	—	—	—		[6]
Houston Rockets
3	Winter, TexTex Winter*	1971–1973	7002129000000000000♠ 129	7001510000000000000♠ 51	7001780000000000000♠ 78	.395	—	—	—	—		[7]
4	Egan, JohnnyJohnny Egan*	1973–1976	7002281000000000000♠ 281	7002129000000000000♠ 129	7002152000000000000♠ 152	.459	8	3	5	.375		[8]
5	Nissalke, TomTom Nissalke	1976–1979	7002246000000000000♠ 246	7002124000000000000♠ 124	7002122000000000000♠ 122	.504	14	6	8	.429	1976–77 NBA Coach of the Year[13]	[9]
6	Harris, DelDel Harris	1979–1983	7002328000000000000♠ 328	7002141000000000000♠ 141	7002187000000000000♠ 187	.430	31	15	16	.484		[14]
7	Fitch, BillBill Fitch	1983–1988	7002410000000000000♠ 410	7002216000000000000♠ 216	7002194000000000000♠ 194	.527	39	21	18	.538	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[15]	[16]
8	Chaney, DonDon Chaney	1988–1992	7002298000000000000♠ 298	7002164000000000000♠ 164	7002134000000000000♠ 134	.550	11	2	9	.182	1990–91 NBA Coach of the Year[13]	[17]
9	Tomjanovich, RudyRudy Tomjanovich	1992–2003	7002900000000000000♠ 900	7002503000000000000♠ 503	7002397000000000000♠ 397	.559	90	51	39	.567	2 NBA championships (1994, 1995)	[3]
10	Van Gundy, JeffJeff Van Gundy	2003–2007	7002328000000000000♠ 328	7002182000000000000♠ 182	7002146000000000000♠ 146	.555	19	7	12	.368		[18]
11	Adelman, RickRick Adelman	2007–2011	7002328000000000000♠ 328	7002193000000000000♠ 193	7002135000000000000♠ 135	.588	19	9	10	.474	3rd longest winning streak in NBA history	[19]
12	McHale, KevinKevin McHale	2011–2015	7002323000000000000♠ 323	7002193000000000000♠ 193	7002130000000000000♠ 130	.598	29	13	16	.448		[20][21]
13	B. Bickerstaff, J.J. B. Bickerstaff*	2015–2016	7001710000000000000♠ 71	7001370000000000000♠ 37	7001340000000000000♠ 34	.521	5	1	4	.200		[22]
14	D'Antoni, MikeMike D'Antoni	2016–present	5000000000000000000♠ –	5000000000000000000♠ –	5000000000000000000♠ –	.	–	–	–	.		[23]

• 
  Rudy Tomjanovich led the team to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995
• 
  Jeff Van Gundy was the coach for the Rockets from 2003 to 2007.
• 
  Kevin McHale was the head coach of the Rockets from 2011 to 2015
• 
  Mike D'Antoni is the Houston Rockets' current head coach.

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the Rockets. 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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