Red Auerbach Trophy

Tweet of the Day: George Karl

May 8, 2013 by Michael Brumagin

The NBA’s active wins leader among head coaches, having accumulated 1,131 career victories, has now been honored with his first piece of hardware for individual achievement. Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl was honored Wednesday as the 2012-13 NBA Coach of the Year.

Honored to receive coach of the year award. Tribute to great players and assistants. Many others equally deserving.

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George Karl

George Karl with the Red Auerbach Trophy. Coach Karl led the Nuggets to the league’s fourth best record (57-25), the third seed in the Western Conference and an impressive league-best 38-3 record at home. That’s a

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Gregg Popovich wins Coach of the Year

May 1, 2012 by Chris Sheridan

Gregg Popovich, who guided the San Antonio Spurs to the best record in the Western Conference, has been voted the NBA’s Coach of the Year, the league announced Tuesday. It is the second Red Auerbach trophy for Popovich, who also won in 2003. He received 77 first-place votes and 467 points from a 119-member media panel, easily outdistancing Tom Thibodeau of the Chicago Bulls, who won last year. Despite a compressed schedule shortened to 66 games by the lockout, the Spurs went

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