Chuck Daly
Charles Jerome Daly (July 20, 1930 – May 9, 2009) was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to two consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 1989 and 1990—during the team's "Bad Boys" era—and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team") to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Daly in 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||
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| Born | July 20, 1930 Kane, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Died | May 9, 2009 (aged 78) Jupiter, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||
| Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) | |||||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||||
| High school | Kane (Kane, Pennsylvania) | |||||||||||
| College | Bloomsburg (1950–1952) | |||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1955–1999 | |||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||
| As coach: | ||||||||||||
| 1955–1963 | Punxsutawney HS | |||||||||||
| 1963–1969 | Duke (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 1969–1971 | Boston College | |||||||||||
| 1971–1977 | Penn | |||||||||||
| 1978–1981 | Philadelphia 76ers (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Cleveland Cavaliers | |||||||||||
| 1983–1992 | Detroit Pistons | |||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | New Jersey Nets | |||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Orlando Magic | |||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||
As head coach:
As assistant coach: | ||||||||||||
| Career coaching record | ||||||||||||
| NBA | 638–437 (.593) | |||||||||||
| College | 151–62 (.709) | |||||||||||
| Basketball Hall of Fame as coach | ||||||||||||
| FIBA Hall of Fame as coach | ||||||||||||
| College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 | ||||||||||||
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Daly is a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, being inducted in 1994 for his individual coaching career, and in 2010 was posthumously inducted as the head coach of the "Dream Team". The Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is named after him.
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