Who is the most inspiring NBA / basketball coach?
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Phil Jackson with his Triangle Offense of course... He had all the superstars but he controlled them well and led them to Championship such as Jordan,Pippen,Rodman, and Kukoc from the Bulls and Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal from the Lakers.
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has to be melo. Marcus Camby was never great before melo arived, melo just raised Camby's game.
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allen iverson\nthen latrel spreewell\nbut A.I. is the originator
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lamar odom.  I've always liked him since the day he came into the league.  He's in my opinion one of the top 3 most complete players in the game today.  He can literally do everything on the basketball court. shoot, rebound, dribble, pass, post up, shoot the 3, block shots, and play solid D.
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dude comon its dirk nowitzki!!!!!!!!!!hes awesome!
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Tim Duncan of course. Ever since he arrived in San Antonio they have been a consistently good team. He may not be able to explode for 81 points but he gives you 20 points and 10 rebounds every night while also distributing the basketball to his teammates.
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I too would have to say Michael Jordan as well. That nigga is the best thing that ever happend to B-ball!!!
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michael JORDAN!!!!THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER!!!
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think there are four names worthy of mention here: \n\ndr. j for inventing the art form.\n\ndominic wilkens for  bringing it into our living rooms virtually everynight, i.e. the human highlight, on sportscenter.\n\nmj.  period.  \n\nwould also give spud webb honorable mention for being able to dunk like that (makes the rest of us look pretty bad because if he can do it why can't we? :)
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The man is a great talent... If you ever heard the mans' life story you too would love the man... He was constantly told in his life that he was never going to make it to the NBA... Boy did he prove the world wrong.  Besides the man has shoots the ball well he distributes the basketball and even get a couple of boards.  His work ethic also is second to none.  Gilbert Areanas in my book is GREAT!!!
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The most skilled player in the history of the NBA has to be Michael Jordan.  However the most dominant I would have to say would be the Diesel, Shaquille O'Neal.  During his prime all you had to do was throw him the ball and there was no stopping it.  He changed the way the NBA looked at the big man and generally when you talk about domination you talk about big men.  If only he learned how to shoot a free throw....
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Red Auerbach, he won eight titles in a row and nine overall, and he was named greatest coach in the history of the NBA by the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America.  Tell me who has done better than that.
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No doubt! San Antonio Spurs & Robert Horry!\nThe Spurs because they compete as a "team" on a good-sportsmanship level that rarely gives in to heated moments. They set the standard by which all teams should be measured.\nRobert Horry because when all the "big guns" were retiring, (taking their loot & quitting), Big Shot Rob continued to give back to the fans & is still a major contributor to the excitement of the game, becoming one of the most winningest players in history. His accomplishments may only be second to the fact that he is the most respected player, past or present, in the eyes of most NBA greats, are nows or has beens!
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Definitely Phil Jackson.  Both Larry and Phil started the season coaching teams that weren't very deep, and Phil Jackson has made the better of it, leading the Lakers to a better record than the Knicks.
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when he could call it quits, his election to hall of fame is just around the corner. he is more than great, he is phenomenal. i mean i could not remember seing any coach having 9 rings in his fingers (plus one as a knick player). the only common thing for other coaches were change of address and not rings. as of 2005, he has the highest win percentage among NBA coaches all-time with 872-353 (0.712). that percentage is pretty hard. its like winning at least 58 games since your first year. he also lead chicago to 55 wins in his first coaching stint.\n\nphil has holistic approach to the game. not that he had good players but he utilize fully his best players to jive with less unheralded players to attaining strong team chemistry. sure he had jordan-pippen, kobe-shaq, now kobe-lamar but basketball is a team sport and as coach he did a very nice job of emphasizing team work. he had tamed hot-heads like rodman, discovered unknowns like kokuc and smush and made longley, wennington, mihm, kwame (not quite so far)fluid passing big men. though there were some instances like 1.8 sec scottie drama or kobe-shaq-phil issue, he was never involve in a feud with players like sprewell-carlesimo. he also has unique zen philosopshy and discipline that affects his basketball aura. though it was tex winter's invention, he successfully applied the rigorous triangle offense strategy. \n\nlastly, he gave young raw players the chance to develop. Just look at what he did to scottie and horace while with the bulls, and while with the lakers fisher, smush, bynum, lamar and kwame enjoyed rigorous motivation including scottie-lamar session and kareem-kwame-mihm-bynum tutorials. Compare that with what larry brown did to darko and arroyo while with the spurs; lebron, dwayne and melo in the olympics. frye, lee, nate and ariza now with the knicks. player motivation is the key. phil is brilliant and has that great charisma.
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Michael Jordan, no doubt about it. in every catagory basketball has, michael jordan is at least top ten(exept for the worst catagories)
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I hate to tell you this, but all of those players have made at least a shot from beyond the arc. Seeing as it would be hard to find anybody who didnt make "one shot from behind the arc", i think i will say  Wilt Chamberlain .