The Best Portland Trail Blazers Coaches Of All Time

Ranker NBA
Updated July 2, 2022 843 votes 164 voters
Over 100 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Portland Trail Blazers Coaches Of All Time

Who are the best Portland Trail Blazers coaches of all time? In their time as an NBA franchise, the Portland Trail Blazers have gone through many different head coaches, all with different personalities and coaching styles. With that said, who is the best Portland Trail Blazers coach of all time? Which Trail Blazer head coaches do you love?

Jack Ramsay is the only Trail Blazers coach to win an NBA championship, which he did in 1977. Ramsay was also named one of the 10 greatest NBA coaches in 1996. Rick Adelman lead the Blazers to two NBA Finals appearances. Adelman's Blazers lost both the 1990 and 1992 NBA Finals. Recently, Chauncey Billups was hired to help get the franchise back to their winning ways.

Vote up the best Portland Trail Blazers coaches of all time, and help us decide the best Trail Blazers head coaches ever.

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  • Jack Ramsay
    1

    Jack Ramsay

    81 votes

    1976–1986    

    John Travilla Ramsay (February 21, 1925 – April 28, 2014) was an American basketball coach, commonly known as "Dr. Jack" (as he held an earned doctorate). He was best known for leading the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA Title, and for his broadcasting work with the Indiana Pacers, the Miami Heat, and for ESPN TV and ESPN Radio. Ramsay was among the most respected coaches in NBA history and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the winner of the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2009–10 NBA season.
  • Rick Adelman
    2

    Rick Adelman

    80 votes

    1988–1994    

    Richard Leonard Adelman (born June 16, 1946) is an American retired professional basketball player and coach. He coached 23 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He served as head coach of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves.
  • Terry Stotts
    3

    Terry Stotts

    82 votes

    2012–2021    

    Terry Linn Stotts (born November 25, 1957) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a playing as a forward in Europe and the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), where he was coached by George Karl, Stotts became a part of Karl's coaching staff on multiple teams in the CBA and NBA. He later got opportunities as a head coach for the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, before helping the Dallas Mavericks win the 2011 NBA championship as an assistant coach.
  • Mike Dunleavy, Sr.
    4

    1997–2001    

    Michael Joseph Dunleavy Sr. (born March 21, 1954) is an American retired professional basketball player, head coach, and former general manager of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers. He was most recently the head coach of the Tulane University men's basketball team. Dunleavy is the father of former professional basketball player Mike Dunleavy Jr.
  • Nate McMillan
    5

    Nate McMillan

    52 votes

    2005–2012    

    Nathaniel McMillan (born August 3, 1964) is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He coached the Seattle SuperSonics from 2000 to 2005, and the Portland Trail Blazers from 2005 to 2012.
  • Lenny Wilkens
    6

    1974 - 1976

    Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American former basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team", for which he was an assistant coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame. Wilkens was a combined 13-time NBA All-Star as a player (nine times) and as a head coach (four times), was the 1993 NBA Coach of the Year, won the 1979 NBA Championship as the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, and an Olympic gold medal as the head coach of the 1996 U.S. men's basketball team. During the 1994–95 season, Wilkens set the record for most coaching wins in NBA history, a record he held when he retired with 1,332 victories. Wilkens is now second on the list behind Don Nelson, who broke it in 2010. He won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2010–11 NBA season. Wilkens is also the most prolific coach in NBA history, at 2,487 regular season games, 89 more games than Nelson, and over 400 more than any other coach, and has more losses than any other coach in NBA history, at 1,155.