Overview
- The National Basketball Coaches Association announced his death Monday and said a cause has not been released.
- Adelman coached 29 NBA seasons, including 23 as a head coach, and finished with 1,042 career wins, the 10th-most in league history.
- He guided the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1990 and 1992 NBA Finals and led the Sacramento Kings to eight straight playoff berths and the 2002 Western Conference Finals.
- Teams across the league and NBA commissioner Adam Silver issued tributes, and Adelman is survived by his wife Mary Kay, six children and 12 grandchildren, including son David, the Denver Nuggets head coach.
- Widely regarded as an offensive innovator who emphasized ball movement and passing bigs, Adelman’s coaching style is credited with influencing the way today’s teams attack and will be a focus of retrospectives and remembrances.