The National Basketball Coaches Association announced the death of former Sacramento Kings coach and Hall of Famer Rick Adelman.<\/p>\n
SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The National Basketball Coaches Association announced Monday the death of former Sacramento Kings coach and Hall of Famer Rick Adelman, one of the winningest coaches in NBA history.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the association said its membership joined the NBA community in mourning Adelman’s passing. No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n
Adelman spent 29 years coaching in the NBA, including 23 seasons as a head coach with the Portland Trail Blazers, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n
According to the NBCA, Adelman won 1,042 games during his coaching career, ranking 10th on the league’s all-time wins list. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021 and received the NBCA’s Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.<\/p>\n
Before becoming a coach, Adelman played eight seasons in the NBA with the San Diego Rockets, Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Jazz and Kansas City-Omaha Kings.<\/p>\n
The coaches association said Adelman will be remembered as a coach, player and mentor to many throughout the basketball community.<\/p>\n
The NBCA said Adelman is survived by his wife, Mary Kay, whom he was married to for 56 years, six children \u2014 Kathy, RJ, Laura, David, Caitlin and Patrick \u2014 and 12 grandchildren.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Adelman family during this difficult time,” the association said.<\/p>\n
The Sacramento Kings provided the following statement to ABC10.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sacramento Kings organization is deeply saddened by the passing of Rick Adelman, a beloved coach whose leadership, character, and vision helped define an era of Kings basketball that inspired our city and captivated fans around the world. During his eight seasons in Sacramento, he led the team to unprecedented success and helped create some of the most memorable moments in franchise history. For an entire generation of Kings fans, Coach Adelman represented the very best of Sacramento basketball, and he will be remembered for the way he inspired those around him \u2013 with humility, integrity, kindness, and an unwavering belief in the power of teamwork. His leadership helped establish a culture that continues to resonate throughout our organization today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our thoughts are with Mary Kay, his family, friends, former players, and all who loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Basketball Coaches Association announced the death of former Sacramento Kings coach and Hall of Famer Rick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-342113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}