(1951-05-12) May 12, 1951 (age 73) Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight
185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school
Penn Hills (Penn Hills, Pennsylvania)
College
North Carolina (1970–1973)
NBA draft
1973: 4th round, 66th overall pick
Selected by the New York Knicks
Playing career
1973–1978
Position
Point guard
Number
22
Coaching career
1978–2016
Career history
As player:
1973–1978
San Antonio Spurs
As coach:
1978–1980
San Antonio Spurs (assistant)
1980–1983
Montana Golden Nuggets
1984–1986
Cleveland Cavaliers
1986–1988
Golden State Warriors
1988–1989
Albany Patroons
1989–1990
Real Madrid
1990–1991
Albany Patroons
1991–1992
Real Madrid
1992–1998
Seattle SuperSonics
1998–2003
Milwaukee Bucks
2005–2013
Denver Nuggets
2015–2016
Sacramento Kings
Career highlights and awards
As player:
First-team All-ACC (1973)
2× Second-team All-ACC (1971, 1972)
As coach:
NBA Coach of the Year (2013)
4× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1994, 1996, 1998, 2010)
2× CBA Coach of the Year (1981, 1983)
FIBA Saporta Cup winner (1992)
Career ABA/NBA playing statistics
Points
1,703 (6.5 ppg)
Rebounds
369 (1.4 rpg)
Assists
795 (3.0 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Career coaching record
NBA
1175–824 (.588)
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
George Matthew Karl (born May 12, 1951) is an American former professional basketball coach and player. After spending five years as a player for the San Antonio Spurs, he became an assistant with the team before being appointed as a head coach in 1980 with the Montana Golden Nuggets of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). Three years later, Karl became one of the youngest National Basketball Association (NBA) head coaches in history when he was named coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers at age 33. By the time his coaching career came to an end in 2016, Karl coached nine different teams in three different leagues (CBA, NBA, Liga ACB), which included being named Coach of the Year three combined times (twice in the CBA and once in the NBA) with one championship roster in the FIBA Saporta Cup. He is one of nine coaches in NBA history to have won 1,000 NBA games (which included twelve seasons with fifty or more wins) and was named NBA Coach of the Year for the 2012–13 season. While he never won an NBA championship, Karl made the postseason 22 times with five different teams, which included a trip to the 1996 NBA Finals with the Seattle SuperSonics.
Karl was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.[1]
^"Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announces 13 members for the Class of 2022". NBA.com.
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