(1923-07-19)July 19, 1923 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died
January 18, 2002(2002-01-18) (aged 78) San Diego, California, U.S.
Nationality
American
Listed height
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight
210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school
Alexander Hamilton (Los Angeles, California)
College
USC (1942–1943; 1946–1948)
NBA draft
1948: – round, –
Selected by the Indianapolis Jets
Playing career
1948–1957
Position
Power forward / center
Number
10, 11, 20, 4, 6, 33, 18
Coaching career
1956–1974
Career history
As player:
1948–1949
Oshkosh All-Stars
1949–1951
Syracuse Nationals
1951–1952
Baltimore Bullets
1952–1954
Rochester Royals
1954–1956
Milwaukee / St. Louis Hawks
1956
Fort Wayne Pistons
1956–1957
St. Louis Hawks
As coach:
1956–1958
St. Louis Hawks
1960–1963
Syracuse Nationals
1963–1966
San Francisco Warriors
1966–1968
Philadelphia 76ers
1968–1969
Oakland Oaks
1969–1971
San Diego Rockets
1971–1974
Denver Rockets
Career highlights and awards
As player:
First-team All-PCC (1948)
As coach:
2× NBA champion (1958, 1967)
NBA Coach of the Year (1964)
2× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1958, 1965)
ABA champion (1969)
ABA Coach of the Year (1969)
Career NBA playing statistics
Points
3,078 (6.0 ppg)
Rebound
2,013 (4.5 rpg)
Assists
857 (1.7 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Career coaching record
ABA & NBA
649–564 (.535)
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
Alexander Murray Hannum (July 19, 1923 – January 18, 2002) was a professional basketball player and coach. Hannum coached two National Basketball Association (NBA) teams and one American Basketball Association (ABA) team to league championships. He had a combined NBA-ABA record of 649–564 (.535) in the regular season and 61–46 (.570) in the playoffs over 16 seasons. In 1998, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.
Alexander Murray Hannum (July 19, 1923 – January 18, 2002) was a professional basketball player and coach. Hannum coached two National Basketball Association...
76ers in the middle of the 1965 season. Under first-year head coach AlexHannum (who had been fired by the Warriors the previous season) and an approach...
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have won multiple championships with more than one team (Pat Riley and AlexHannum are the others). Red Auerbach won nine championships with the Boston...
original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019. Hollander, Zander; Sachare, Alex (1989). The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia. Villard Books. pp. 49–51...
Their second title was won as the Philadelphia 76ers in 1967, coached by AlexHannum, who has the highest career winning percentage for the 76ers. Billy Cunningham...
with the New York Knicks while AlexHannum arrived a few weeks later after being released by the Fort Wayne Pistons. Hannum became the team's third coach...
games won (327), playoff games coached (60), and playoff games won (26). AlexHannum is the only head coach to have won an NBA championship with the Hawks...
all-time leader in both regular-season and playoff games coached and wins. AlexHannum, Tex Winter, Kevin McHale, Bill Fitch, Rudy Tomjanovich and Rick Adelman...
franchise. AlexHannum, Don Nelson, and Bill Sharman are the only other members of the franchise that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Hannum, Nelson...
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Larry Brown, John Calipari, Chuck Daly, Bill Fitch, Cotton Fitzsimmons, AlexHannum, Tom Heinsohn, Red Holzman, Phil Jackson, Alvin Julian, John Kundla,...
NBA player and ex-soldier AlexHannum, and was joined by rookie center Nate Thurmond, who later entered the Hall of Fame. Hannum, who later entered the Hall...
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Teague – 2015 Trae Young – 2020, 2022 NBA All-Star Game head coaches AlexHannum – 1958 Ed Macauley – 1959, 1960 Paul Seymour – 1961 Richie Guerin – 1969...
v t e Denver Nuggets general managers Vince Boryla (1967) AlexHannum (1971–1974) Carl Scheer (1974–1984) Vince Boryla (1984–1987) Pete Babcock (1987–1990)...
Schayes was fired. He was succeeded by his predecessor with the Nats, AlexHannum, who led the team to the best record in league history at the time and...
Johnston (1959–1961) Frank McGuire (1961–1962) Bob Feerick (1962–1963) AlexHannum (1963–1966) Bill Sharman (1966–1968) George Lee (1968–1970) Al Attles...
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