the eight-year championship streak of the Boston Celtics. He also played with the Buffalo Braves, Chicago Bulls, Cincinnati Royals, Houston Rockets, and Kansas City Kings, all of the NBA. In the 1972–73 season, Guokas finished second (to Chamberlain) in the NBA in field goal percentage with a .570 clip during that season. Coaching and broadcasting Guokas later returned to the Sixers as an assistant coach under Billy Cunningham, and was named head coach when Cunningham retired in 1985. He led the Sixers to two second-place finishes, but was fired after a slow start to the 1987–88 season. After a year away from the game, he served as the first coach of the Orlando Magic, steering the team through its first four years, the last of which saw the Magic come within one game of making the playoffs in Shaquille O'Neal's rookie year. He compiled a combined 230–305 career record in parts of seven seasons. He formerly worked as a TV color commentator and sports analyst for the Magic on Fox Sports Florida and Sun Sports cable channels, teaming with veteran NBA and college sportscaster David Steele. He also served as a color commentator for NBA on NBC broadcasts during the 1990s and was a color commentator for the Cleveland Cavaliers for Fox Sports Ohio'' cable channel for a number of years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Head coaching record |- | style="text-align:left;"|Philadelphia | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||54||28|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Atlantic||12||6||6|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Philadelphia | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||45||37|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Atlantic||5||2||3|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Philadelphia | style="text-align:left;"| | 43||20||23|||| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|Orlando | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||18||64|||| style="text-align:center;"|7th in Central||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Orlando | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||31||51|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Midwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Orlando | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||21||61|||| style="text-align:center;"|7th in Atlantic||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Orlando | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||41||41|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Atlantic||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 535||230||305|||| ||17||8||9|||| Personal life Guokas's father (Matt Sr.), uncle (Al) and son (Matt III) have all played for Saint Joseph's University. References External links 1944 births Living people All-American college men's basketball players American men's basketball players American people of Lithuanian descent Basketball coaches from Pennsylvania Basketball players from Philadelphia Buffalo Braves players Chicago Bulls players Cincinnati Royals players College basketball announcers in the United States Houston Rockets players Kansas City