Stanley Alan Van Gundy is an American basketball coach and current head coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association. He served as the head coach and president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons from 2014 to 2018. He is the brother of former New York Knicks and Houston Rockets coach Jeff van Gundy. In 2003, he was named head coach of the Miami Heat when Pat Riley abruptly resigned.
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Stanley Alan Van Gundy is an American basketball coach and current head coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association. He served as the head coach and president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons from 2014 to 2018. He is the brother of former New York Knicks and Houston Rockets coach Jeff van Gundy. He was a starting guard at Alhambra High School in Martinez, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. He played basketball for his father at SUNY-Brockport, a Division III school, until he graduated in 1981 with a B. A. in English and a. B. S. in Physical Education. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at the University of Vermont, 1981–83, and was head coach at Castleton State College in Vermont for three seasons from 1983 to 1986. He then became an assistant at University of Wisconsin under Stu Jackson. In 2003, he was named head coach of the Miami Heat when Pat Riley abruptly resigned as coach prior to the 2003–04 season. He led them to a 42-win season, in which they won a very high percentage of their late season games and surprised many by advancing to the second round of the 2004 NBA playoffs, nearly defeating the team with the league’s best record, the Indiana Pacers.
In 2005, he resigned in 2005 mid-season, turning the job over to Pat Riley. In 2007, he then coached the Orlando Magic for five seasons from 2007 to 2012, leading them to the 2009 NBA Finals. Overall, he compiled a record of 135–92 in eight years as a college head coach. In 2010, he became the first coach to coach to the All-Star Game, where he led the East to a victory in the first half of the season. The Heat went on to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they lost to the Detroit Piston 7-7 in Game 7 of the Finals. During the 2005-06 season, it was widely speculated that Pat Riley was attempting to run out of his coaching job and take over the team that was now the Piston. When Pat Riley left the New York. Knicks to coach the Miami. Heat, the Knicks refused to let him hire Jeff Van Gundi, perhaps his most valuable assistant. Riley hired Stan, his brother, saying \”I wanted at least one Van Gundies with me\”. Stan Van GundY spent 12 years with the Heat. He coached the Heat to the first-half of the first season of the 2010-11 season.
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