Marie Mahé, Media365, published on Tuesday May 06, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.
This Monday, the NBA announced that the title of coach of the year had been awarded to Kenny Atkinson, Cleveland Cavaliers coach.
The title of coach of the year was awarded. This Monday, the NBA announced that the lucky man is the American Kenny Atkinson (57), a coach, since the start of this 2024-2025 season, of the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise. The 100 media personalities, who voted, preferred him to JB Bickerstaff, the coach of the Pistons de Detroit, and to Ime Udoka, his counterpart in the Houston Rockets. last year, Cleveland ended in fourth place in the Eastern Conference classification, with a balance sheet of 48 victories for 34 defeats. This season, the riders, with Atkinson as a coach, did much better, since they finished at the top of the classification of the Eastern Conference, with a record of 64 victories for 18 defeats. Such a review had not arrived at them since 2016. At that time, LeBron James was present within the local workforce, on the occasion of his second passage in this same franchise based in the State of Ohio.
Atkinson, member of the Staff des Bleus in Paris 2024
For his part, last summer, Kenny Atkinson was part of the staff of the French male basketball team, trained, at the time, by Vincent Collet, on the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Blues had won the silver medal. In history, Kenny Atkinson is the third coach of the Cleveland ridge franchise to receive this distinction from the NBA, after Bill Fitch in 1976 then Mike Brown in 2009. This season, for the first time in its history, Cleveland had notably experienced a total of three series of at least twelve successes. Before making his comeback as the main NBA coach, Atkinson had already had a first experience in the League, and more precisely among the Nets of Brooklyn, between the years 2016 and 2020. After that, the American had chained with deputy roles, first within the franchise of the Clippers of Los Angeles (2020-2021) then with the Warriors of Golden State (2021-2024).
