TheUtah Jazz is an American professionalbasketball team based inSalt Lake City,Utah. They play in theNorthwest Division of theWestern Conference in theNational Basketball Association (NBA).
The team joined the NBA in 1974 as anexpansion team called theNew Orleans Jazz. The Jazzrelocated toSalt Lake City, Utah in 1979. The Jazz have won two consecutive Western Conference championships in 1997 and 1998.[1] The Jazz have played their home games atVivint Arena, first known as Delta Center and then the EnergySolutions Arena, since 1991.[2] The Jazz is owned by Ryan Smith.[3]
There have been eight head coaches for the Jazz franchise. The franchise's first head coach wasScotty Robertson, who coached for 14 games.Jerry Sloan is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (1,673), the most regular-season game wins (1,043), the highest regular-seasonwinning percentage (.623), the most playoff games coached (186), the most playoff-game wins (92), and the highest playoff winning percentage (.495). Sloan is the first coach to win over 1000 games with one NBA team,[4] the leader for the most consecutive seasons coached with the same team inmajor professional sports history, having coached for 21 seasons with the Jazz,[5] and the only Jazz coach to have been elected into theBasketball Hall of Fame as a coach, having been enshrined in 2009.[6]Frank Layden, who coached the Jazz for eight seasons, is the only Jazz coach to have won theNBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the1983–84 season.[7] Layden is also the only coach to have a number retired by the Jazz ("1" in 1988).[8]Elgin Baylor and Layden have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Jazz. Sloan had been the head coach of the Jazz from 1988 until his retirement in 2011. From 2011 to the end of the 2013/2014 season the Jazz were coached byTyrone Corbin. He was followed by Quin Snyder. The current coach isWill Hardy.
| GC | Games coached |
| W | Wins |
| L | Losses |
| Win% | Winning percentage |
| # | Number of coaches[a] |
| * | Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Jazz |
| † | Elected into theBasketball Hall of Fame as a coach |
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the2024–25 season.
| # | Name | Term[b] | GC | W | L | Win% | GC | W | L | Win% | Achievements | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular season | Playoffs | ||||||||||||||
| New Orleans Jazz | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Scotty Robertson | 1974 | 15 | 1 | 14 | .067 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | [9] | ||||
| 2 | Elgin Baylor* | 1974 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | [10] | ||||
| 3 | Butch van Breda Kolff | 1974–1976 | 174 | 74 | 100 | .425 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | [11] | ||||
| — | Elgin Baylor* | 1976–1979 | 220 | 86 | 134 | .391 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | [10] | ||||
| Utah Jazz | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Tom Nissalke | 1979–1981 | 184 | 60 | 124 | .326 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | [12] | ||||
| 5 | Frank Layden* | 1981–1988 | 571 | 277 | 294 | .485 | 41 | 18 | 23 | .439 | 1983–84NBA Coach of the Year[7] Had the number 1 jersey retired by the Jazz in 1988[8] | [13] | |||
| 6 | Jerry Sloan† | 1988–2011 | 1809 | 1127 | 682 | .623 | 196 | 96 | 100 | .490 | 2Western Conference championships (1997,1998)[1] Most consecutive games coached with the same team in NBA history[5] First coach to have more than 1,000 wins with a single NBA team[4] | [14] | |||
| 7 | Tyrone Corbin* | 2011–2014 | 258 | 112 | 146 | .434 | 4 | 0 | 4 | .000 | [15] | ||||
| 8 | Quin Snyder* | 2014–2022 | 636 | 372 | 264 | .585 | 51 | 21 | 30 | .412 | [16] | ||||
| 9 | 2022–present | 246 | 85 | 161 | .346 | — | — | — | – | [17] | |||||
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