Lifetime Achievement Award! Old Nelson supports Doncic! Protests on the Mavericks and Lakers deal

The National Basketball Coaches Association announced that Don Nelson was awarded the Chuck Daley Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is named after Dream One coach Chuck Daly, and is designed to recognize coaches who have been coaching in the NBA for a long time and have achieved outstanding results. The winner of the 2024 is Rudy Tomjanovic and Rick Adelman in 2023.

After learning that he won the award, Old Nelson specifically emphasized in an interview: "Doncic is my good friend. I want to protest the Mavericks' trade to the Lakers. I will wear a pair of his new signature shoes when receiving the award." Old Nelson did what he said, Doncic posted a photo of Old Nelson receiving the award and wrote: "Congratulations to coach, the shoes are good!"

talked about this decision , Nelson, the old man said: "I played for Cardinal Auerbach for a year. His philosophy is that when you have great players, such as Bill Russell, Haflicke, Sam Jones, you must not lose this player. So my philosophy has always been to respect great players and not trade them!"

Nelson, born on May 15, 1940, is 85 years old this year. The last time he coached in the NBA was dated back to the 2009-10 season, and in 2012, the old Nelson was inducted into the Hall of Fame! For the past seven years, Old Nelson has been living in Maui, Hawaii, and has almost never left the island. He is in a good spirit now.

The old Nelson coached in the NBA for 31 seasons, with 2,398 games in coaching, second only to Lanny Wilkens (2,487 games). Nelson has 1335 wins, also second in history, second only to Popovich (1422 wins). Unfortunately, Old Nelson has never won the championship in his coaching career! From 1962 to 1976, Nelson played in the NBA for 14 seasons when he was a player, and his No. 19 jersey was retired by the Celtics. Nelson played 1,053 regular season games in his career, averaging 10.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game, with mediocre data. But he helped the Celtics win five championships and the jersey was retired. In 1976, Nelson, who had just retired, became the Bucks general manager and head coach, when he was only 36 years old. Nelson led the Bucks to the playoffs in 10 years and he won the NBA Coach of the Year twice. In the 1988-89 season, Nelson became the head coach of the Warriors and served as vice president, and he carried forward the run and gun tactics!

Old Nelson advocates position blurring, and he hopes that the front line will also have organizational capabilities, and this concept is very advanced. In the 1991-92 season, Popovich became the Warriors' assistant coach and assisted Nelson. In the 1995-96 season, Nelson, the old man became the head coach of the New York Knicks. He wanted to exchange Ewing for O'Neal, but the Knicks management refused. In the 1997-98 season, Nelson, the Mavericks' head coach and general manager. In the summer of 1998, the Mavericks selected Nowitzki and got Nash through the trade. Later, because Cuban let Nash go, Old Nelson turned against him. In the 2006-07 season, Nelson brought the small ball concept back to the Warriors and performed the Black Eight Miracle in 2007.

Finally, I want to say that Old Nelson is also the inventor of the shark chopping tactic! What memories do you still have for Old Nelson?