Rick Adelman Enters Top 10 in All-Time Coaching Wins

by Jonathan Santiago / @itsJONsantiago

With a win last night in his old stomping grounds of Sacramento, Houston Rockets Head Coach Rick Adelman joined an exclusive club.

Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle:

Rick Adelman moved into a tie with Dick Motta for 10th in all-time coaching wins. Among the members of that exclusive club, only Phil Jackson and Red Auerbach have a better winning percentage. (And for those that for some reason want to point out that nearly 400 of those wins came with Sacramento, Adelman has a better winning percentage as Rockets coach than any coach in franchise history.)

Was it any more special tying Motta at the place he once called home?

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Rockets guard Kevin Martin, who played for Adelman in Sacramento, felt otherwise.

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Adelman, whose career coaching  record now stands at 935-609,  can surpass Motta with a win tonight in Phoenix.  He is four wins away from passing the great Red Auerbach, who finished his 19-year coaching career with 938 victories.