The Oklahoma City Thunder

Oklahoma City Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ; their home court is at Chesapeake Energy Arena....

 is an American professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 franchise based in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...

, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. It plays in the Northwest Division

Northwest Division (NBA)

The Northwest Division is one of the three divisions in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association . The division consists of five teams, the Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Utah JazzThe division was...

 of the Western Conference

Western Conference (NBA)

Below is a list of current Western Conference NBA team rosters.-Western Conference:There are a total of 15 teams in the Western Conference. The current leading team of the Western conference are the Dallas Mavericks....

 in the National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 (NBA). It was known as the Seattle SuperSonics

Seattle SuperSonics

The Seattle SuperSonics were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington that played in the Pacific and Northwest Divisions of the National Basketball Association from 1967 until 2008. Following the 2007–08 season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City, and now plays as...

 from 1967 to 2008. The team plays its home games at the Oklahoma City Arena. As of October 2008, the Thunder is currently owned by Professional Basketball Club LLC

Professional Basketball Club LLC

Professional Basketball Club LLC is an investment group headed by Clayton Bennett that owns the Oklahoma City Thunder‎ and Tulsa 66ers....

 and coached by Scott Brooks

Scott Brooks

Scott William Brooks is a retired American professional basketball player from Lathrop, California and is the current head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA...

, with Sam Presti

Sam Presti

Sam Prestigiacomo is an American basketball executive. Since June 7, 2007, he has been the General Manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the team formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics...

 as its general manager. The team was formed in 1967. After spending 41 years in Seattle, Washington, the SuperSonics moved

Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City

The Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City was a successful effort by the ownership group of the Seattle SuperSonics to move the team to Oklahoma City...

 to Oklahoma City. Owner Clay Bennett

Clayton Bennett

Clayton "Clay" Ike' Bennett is an American businessman and chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, the ownership group of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise that was formerly the Seattle SuperSonics...

, who purchased the team in 2006, sought to get public funding for a new arena in Seattle, or a major renovation of the KeyArena

KeyArena

KeyArena at Seattle Center , is a multipurpose arena, in Seattle, Washington. It is located north of downtown in the entertainment complex known as Seattle Center, the site of the 1962 World's Fair, the Century 21 Exposition...

 in 2007. After failing to do so, he decided to move the team to Oklahoma City. Seattle sued Bennett's group to enforce the lease that required the team to stay until 2010. The two sides reached a $45 million settlement to pay off the team's lease with KeyArena in July 2008.

There have been 16 head coach

Head coach

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es for the Thunder franchise. The franchise won its only NBA championship

NBA Finals

The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association . The series was named the NBA World Championship Series until 1986....

 in the 1979 NBA Finals

1979 NBA Finals

The 1979 NBA World Championship Series at the conclusion of the 1978-79 season were won by the Seattle SuperSonics defeating the Washington Bullets 4 games to 1. The series was a rematch of the 1978 NBA Finals which the Washington Bullets had won 4-3...

 while coached by Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens

Lenny Wilkens

Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is a retired American basketball player and coach in the NBA...

. Wilkens is the only member of the franchise to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached, regular-season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won. Wilkens, Nate McMillan

Nate McMillan

Nathaniel "Nate" McMillan is a retired American professional basketball player and current head coach of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers...

 and Bob Weiss

Bob Weiss

Robert William "Bob" Weiss is a retired American professional basketball player and head coach in the NBA. He is currently coaching Shanxi Zhongyu in the Chinese Basketball Association....

 formerly played for the team in Seattle. Current head coach Scott Brooks

Scott Brooks

Scott William Brooks is a retired American professional basketball player from Lathrop, California and is the current head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA...

 is the only coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award

NBA Coach of the Year Award

The National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1962–63 NBA season. The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the head coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA Championships from 1956 to 1966...

 with the franchise.
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Key

GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
Win%	Winning percentage Winning percentage In sports, a winning percentage is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. It is defined as wins divided by wins plus losses . Ties count as a ½ loss and a ½ win...
#	Number of coaches
*	Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Sonics/Thunder
	Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the .

#	Name	Term	GC	W	L	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%	Achievements	Reference
			Regular season				Playoffs
11		–	164	53	111	.323	—	—	—	—
22		– (as player-coach)	246	121	125	.492	—	—	—	—	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
33			45	13	32	.289	—	—	—	—
44			37	13	24	.351	—	—	—	—
55		–	328	162	166	.494	15	6	9	.400
66	*		22	5	17	.227	—	—	—	—
7—		–	634	357	277	.563	69	37	32	.536	1 NBA championship NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association . The series was named the NBA World Championship Series until 1986....  (1979 1979 NBA Finals The 1979 NBA World Championship Series at the conclusion of the 1978-79 season were won by the Seattle SuperSonics defeating the Washington Bullets 4 games to 1. The series was a rematch of the 1978 NBA Finals which the Washington Bullets had won 4-3... ) One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history
87		–	322	160	162	.497	27	12	15	.444
98	*		1	0	1	.000	—	—	—	—
109			5	1	4	.200	—	—	—	—
11—			82	41	41	.500	—	—	—	—
1210		–	118	59	59	.500	5	2	3	.400
13—			4	2	2	.500	—	—	—	—
1411		–	534	384	150	.719	80	40	40	.500
1512		–	147	76	71	.517	5	2	3	.400
1613		–	395	212	183	.537	16	8	8	.500
1714			30	13	17	.433	—	—	—	—
1815		–	134	53	81	.396	—	—	—	—
1916		–	95	21	74	.221	—	—	—	—
2117	*	–present	151	72	79	.477	6	2	4	.333	NBA Coach of the Year NBA Coach of the Year Award The National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1962–63 NBA season. The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the head coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA Championships from 1956 to 1966...