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#4 Billy Cunningham
650 NBA games | 454-196 W-L record | .698 win percentage
Billy Cunningham coached the Philadelphia 76ers for eight NBA seasons from 1977 to 1985.
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Cunningham led the team to a 454-196 record over those eight years in the regular season. Also, with Julius Erving on the team, they played three NBA Finals - all against the Showtime LA Lakers - and finally beat them in 1983 when Moses Malone joined the team.
Cunningham coached the team in 105 NBA Playoff games and had a 66-39 record, giving him a .629 win percentage in the postseason. This percentage is the ninth-best in history.
#3 Phil Jackson
1640 NBA games | 1155-485 W-L record | .704 win percentage
The Lord of the NBA Rings, Phil Jackson won a record 11 NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls (six) and the Los Angeles Lakers (five) as a coach.
Jackson started his head coaching career with the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls in 1989. In his second season with the team, he guided them to the franchise's first NBA title and the first of their two three-peats.
Jackson won another three-peat with the Bulls from 1996 to 1998 before taking a sabbatical in the 1998-99 NBA season. He returned to coach the LA Lakers and won another three straight championships from 2000 to 2002. In his first 12 seasons as a head coach, Jackson won nine NBA championships.
He then won two more with Lakers in 2009 and 2010, before retiring in 2011 with 1155 regular-season wins and a record 229 in the NBA Playoffs.
#2 Steve Kerr
475 NBA games | 337-138 W-L record | .709 win percentage
Steve Kerr's head coaching career started with a great impact on the Golden State Warriors in 2014. In his first season, Kerr won the NBA championship with the team after a solid 67-15 regular season.
The team broke the all-time regular-season record with a 73-9 record the following season, though they lost the NBA Finals against the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers.
In his six-year 475-game coaching career, Kerr has 337 victories (.709 win percentage) and has reached five NBA Finals with the Warriors. In the NBA Playoffs, Kerr is the all-time leader in win percentage (.733) among NBA head coaches.
#1 Nick Nurse
154 NBA games | 111-43 W-L record | .721 win percentage
The reigning NBA Coach of the Year Award winner, Nick Nurse has completed two full seasons with the Toronto Raptors and has done an amazing job.
Nurse has coached 154 regular-season games and won 111 of those. His .721 win percentage is the highest in NBA history. Also, he has two NBA Playoffs appearances and one NBA championship with the Raptors in his first year as a coach (ninth in history to do so).
