in Central||7||3||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee | style="text-align:left;"| |82||55||27|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||6||2||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee | style="text-align:left;"| |82||51||31|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||9||5||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee | style="text-align:left;"| |82||50||32|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||16||8||8|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee | style="text-align:left;"| |82||59||23|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||8||3||5|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee | style="text-align:left;"| |82||57||25|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||14||7||7|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Milwaukee | style="text-align:left;"| |82||50||32|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Central||12||6||6|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||43||39|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Pacific||8||4||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||37||45|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Pacific||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||44||38|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Pacific||9||4||5|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||55||27|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Pacific||4||1||3|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||34||48|||| style="text-align:center;"|6th in Pacific||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||50||32|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Pacific||3||0||3|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |45||14||31|||| style="text-align:center;"|(resigned)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|New York | style="text-align:left;"| |59||34||25|||| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |66||16||50|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Midwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |50||19||31|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Midwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |82||40||42|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Midwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |82||53||29|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Midwest||10||4||6|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |82||57||25|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Midwest||8||4||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |82||60||22|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Midwest||20||10||10|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |82||52||30|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Midwest||5||1||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Dallas | style="text-align:left;"| |64||42||22|||| style="text-align:center;"|(resigned)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||42||40|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Pacific||11||5||6||.455 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||48||34|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Pacific||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||29||53|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Pacific||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Golden State | style="text-align:left;"| |82||26||56|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Pacific||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"|Career | ||2,398||1,335||1,063|||| ||166||75||91|| References External links Basketball-Reference.com: Don Nelson (as a coach) 1940 births Living people All-American college men's basketball players American men's basketball coaches American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from Michigan Basketball players from Michigan Boston Celtics players Chicago Zephyrs draft picks