Budenholzer, Donovan share NBCA
Coach of the Year award
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[August 04, 2020]
(Reuters) - The National
Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) named the Milwaukee Bucks'
Mike Budenholzer and Oklahoma City Thunder's Billy Donovan as
co-coaches of the year on Monday.
The award is based on votes from each of the NBA's 30 head coaches.
Voting for this year was based on games played up until the
suspension of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11.
Budenholzer, who guided the Bucks to a league-best 53-12 record at
the time of the season's suspension, is the first head coach to win
the award more than once.
Donovan became the fourth active coach to guide his team to the
playoffs in each of his first five seasons in charge after leading
the Thunder to a 40-24 record.
"Congratulations to Mike Budenholzer and Billy Donovan on this
prestigious recognition," Dallas Mavericks Head Coach and NBCA
President Rick Carlisle said.
"To win the vote of our peers makes the Michael H. Goldberg NBCA
Coach of the Year Award one of the most meaningful in all of pro
sports."
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Milwaukee Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer reacts REUTERS/Benoit
Tessier
The NBA season resumed last week at the ESPN Wide World of Sports
Complex in the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando with games
played without supporters.
(Reporting by Arvind Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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