{"id":12964,"date":"2025-05-06T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/12964\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:40:30","slug":"cavs-head-coach-kenny-atkinson-named-nbas-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/12964\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs Head Coach Kenny Atkinson named NBA\u2019s Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Kenny Atkinson has been named the NBA\u2019s Coach of the Year for the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>In just his first season with Cleveland, Atkinson led the team to a 64-18 record, marking the second-most wins in a season in franchise history. He is the fifth NBA coach to win 64 or more games in their first season.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland also won 30 road games this past season, a new record for wins on the road in a single season for the Cavs.<\/p>\n<p>Under Atkinson&#8217;s coaching, the Cavs won the Central Division title and was the top seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson is the third Cavaliers coach in history to win Coach of the Year and the 19th in NBA history to earn this award in their first season.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Atkinson was named the 2025 Michael H. Goldberg NBCA Coach of the Year, and earlier this year, he was honored with coaching the 2025 NBA All-Star game in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/sports\/basketball\/cavaliers\/cavs-head-coach-kenny-atkinson-named-nbca-coach-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cavs Head Coach Kenny Atkinson named NBCA Coach of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Kenny Atkinson has been named the NBA\u2019s Coach of the Year for the 2024-25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6,4128,4129],"class_list":{"0":"post-12964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news5cleveland","15":"tag-northeast-ohio-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114460231470394720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}