The National Basketball League Coach of the Year is an annual
National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the
1989 New Zealand NBL season
The 1989 NBL season was the eighth season of the National Basketball League. Ponsonby's last-place finish in 1988 saw them dropped from the league and replaced by 1988 Conference Basketball League (CBL) champions Palmerston North. Canterbury won ...
to the best head coach of the regular season.
In September 2021, the Coach of the Year award was named in honour of
Steve McKean following his death.
McKean was coach of the
Tall Blacks
The New Zealand men's national basketball team is the senior men's national basketball team of New Zealand. The team is nicknamed the Tall Blacks. The ''Tall Blacks'' name is one of many New Zealand national team nicknames related to the All ...
from 1972–1981 and received the Basketball New Zealand Coach of the Year Award in 1978 and 2002.
He was the NBL's Coach of the Year in 1992.
Winners
See also
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List of National Basketball League (New Zealand) awards
The National Basketball League (NBL) presents a number of annual awards to recognise its teams, players, and coaches for their accomplishments. This does not include the NBL championship trophy, which is given to the winning team of the NBL Gr ...
References
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Awards established in 1989
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