Basketball Ideas
Branch of Larry Costello’s treePat Riley↗The NBA coaching forest
Explore the
coaching forest.
Explore basketball through its coaching trees. Start with a name, follow the generations, and see where the branches meet.
Pick a coach. Follow the tree.
Branch of Larry Costello’s treePat Riley↗
Branch of Larry Brown’s treeGregg Popovich↗
Tree founderRed Auerbach↗
Tree founderLarry Brown↗The biggest trees in the forest
All 116 trees →Complete trees, ranked by the number of coaches in the published model.
50 coaches · 6 generations
Larry Costello
Don Nelson · Hubie Brown · Jack McKinney · and more
Explore the complete tree →33 coaches · 5 generations
Larry Brown
Alvin Gentry · Bill Blair · Donnie Walsh · and more
Explore the complete tree →12 coaches · 5 generations
Bill Sharman
K.C. Jones
Explore the complete tree →Find a branch through your team
Collections reflect recorded head-coaching seasons. Tree lines follow the published methodology; they do not imply that every relationship is direct mentorship.