The

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are an American professional

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team based in

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. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the

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(NBA). Founded in , the Suns are chronologically the second-oldest team in the Western Conference. The Suns are also chronologically the third-oldest team in the NBA to have never won an NBA Championship while having played in the

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at least once. The Suns play their home games at the

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(formerly the Phoenix Suns Arena, American West Arena and the US Airways Center). The Phoenix Suns franchise has had 23

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es. John MacLeod is the franchise's all-time leader in coaching years and games won, winning the most regular-season and playoff games.

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Mike D'Antoni Michael Andrew D'Antoni (born May 8, 1951) is an American-Italian professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as a coaching advisor for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). While h ...

and

Monty Williams Tavares Montgomery Williams (born October 8, 1971) is an American professional basketball coach, executive, and former player of the National Basketball Association (NBA) who is the head coach of the TMI Episcopal’s boys basketball team. He pre ...

are the only coaches to have won the

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with the Suns. The Suns never have been coached by a

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inductee.

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has the highest all-time winning percentage with the Suns with a .685 percentage.

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was named head coach after

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was dismissed by the Suns after 51 games in 2008. Gentry left the Phoenix Suns under mutual agreement to part ways on January 18, 2013. He was replaced by

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halfway through the

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. He has since been replaced by former Suns player

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. Hired in 2018, Serbian coach

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became the first head coach born and raised outside of North America to be hired as a head coach in NBA history. Former Pelicans coach

was hired as head coach on May 3, 2019, and served until May 13, 2023. On June 6, 2023, the Suns hired

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as head coach.

Key

Coaches

''Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the .'' File:Colangelo.jpg, Jerry Colangelo coached the Suns in and in the season. File:Paul Westphal in 2014.jpg, Paul Westphal coached the Suns from to , leading the team to their second NBA Finals appearance in

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

. File:012308-TC-Twolves002-MikeDantoni.jpg, Mike D'Antoni coached the Suns from to , with Western Conference Finals appearances in 2005 and 2006. File:Alvin Gentry cropped.JPG, Alvin Gentry coached the Suns from to , with a Western Conference Finals appearance in 2010. File:Coach Jeff Hornacek (cropped).jpg, Jeff Hornacek coached the Suns from –. File:Monty Williams (cropped).jpg, Monty Williams coached the Phoenix Suns from to , leading the team to their third NBA Finals appearance in

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Notes

* A running total of the number of coaches of the Suns. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once. * Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

References

;General * * ;Specific {{DEFAULTSORT:Phoenix Suns head coaches Lists of NBA head coaches by team *

Head coaches A head coach, senior coach, or manager is a professional responsible for training and developing athletes within a sports team. This role often has a higher public profile and salary than other coaching positions. In some sports, such as associat ...