Mike D'Antoni Biography

Mike D’Antoni played his college basketball at Marshall University and was a second round pick of the Kansas City-Omaha Kings in the 1973 NBA Draft. He’d go on to play four seasons in the NBA with the Kings, Spirits of St. Louis and San Antonio Spurs before heading to Italy and playing 13 seasons with Olimpia Milano. After retiring as a player he began a successful coaching career with Recaoaro Milano and Benetton Treviso in Italy from 1990 to 1997 before heading back to the NBA as the head coach of the Denver Nuggets in 1998. After one year with the Nuggets he served as an assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers and then headed back to Italy for one year before being hired as the head coach of the Phoenix Suns in 2003. As the head coach of the Suns he won the NBA Coach of the Year award in 2005 and coached in the NBA All-Star game in 2007. After five seasons with the Suns he headed to the New York Knicks from 2008 to 2012 and then signed on as the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers from 2012 to 2014. During his NBA coaching career he has compiled a 455-426 record and led his teams to six NBA playoff appearances. 

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