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List of Serbian coaches
Igor Kokoškov was the first Serbian head coach in the NBA.
Dejan Milojević was assistant coach of the
Golden State Warriors .
The following is a list of
Serbian
basketball coaches who have been assistant or head coaches in the
National Basketball Association (NBA).
In 2000,
Igor Kokoškov became the first non-American to hold a full-time assistant coach position in the NBA.
[1] In 2004, he became the first non-American assistant coach to win an
NBA championship , and in
2006 , he became the first to serve on an
NBA All-Star Game coaching staff.
[2] In 2018, he became the first fully European head coach in the NBA.
[3]
In
2004 ,
Igor Kokoškov won the
NBA championship as an assistant coach of the
Detroit Pistons . Since then,
Dejan Milojević won the league in
2022 as an assistant coach of the
Golden State Warriors .
[4]
Key
*
Denotes coach who is still active in the NBA
Note: Both lists are correct through the start of the
2023–24 season .
Serbian coaches
Coaches with Serbian citizenship or parentage
The following is a list of coaches, who are or have been assistant or head coaches in NBA, who have
citizenship of Serbia or Serbian
parentage or who are Serbs of
former Yugoslav republics (
Bosnia and Herzegovina ,
Croatia ,
Montenegro ,
North Macedonia ,
Slovenia ).
See also
Notes
Details
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b This section doesn't include overseas honours, NBA finals entry and various types of records
^ Phoenix Suns finished the season with a 19–63 record, tied for the second-worst record in the league.
[6]
^ Prior to the
2019–20 NBA season , he was promoted to the director of player development.
[11]
Other nationalities, ethnic groups, native-language
References
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