Behind the Coaching March 2026: Coach Profiles & Articles Updates

Hello Behind the Coaching readers and website visitors! Thank you for your support that you give to our website and vision by simply reading, sharing, or viewing anything we have to offer. In this post, I will be giving you updates on what our coach profile pages will consist of, what and who to expect to have coach profiles, and future updates and goals Behind the Coaching wants to carry out.

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Coach Profiles

This section will be broken up into 2 different types of coach profiles we will have on our website.

1. Professional Levels
   • National Basketball Association (NBA)
   • American Basketball Association (ABA)
   • Basketball Association of America (BAA)
   • Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)
2. Youth Sports, High School, and other instructional coaching businesses (Coaches Corner).

Professional Levels

As we mentioned in our March 2026 roadmap newsletter via Substack, I announced that Behind the Coaching is working on compiling and creating pages about individual coaches called “Coach Profiles”. These coach profiles are information hubs for a coach that includes their experience, tenures with teams, notable players they coached, and possibly their coaching philosophy.

Think of these profile pages as references and easily accessible and organized information about the coach and our supporting articles will be the outlet we fully capture their journey and story.

The inspiration for doing these on our website was finding a way we can better shine the spotlight on all types of coaches, especially those who aren’t as well covered or known. Historically, a lot of coaches are deceased from mostly 1947 to the early 1970s and there isn’t a lot of ways people can find deep and meaningful information besides quick recaps. Our profiles are our way of documenting their careers and the articles are to keep telling their stories and journeys.

The primary goal is to have every single coach from the NBA/BAA’s inaugural season in 1947 to 2009, with the exception of a few coaches in the 2010s. We only focus on historical and retired coaches due to the active coaches being covered and heavily covered by the NBA Coaches Association, so there’s no need for us to create profiles for coaches that already have one. We still will have articles of course to share present day events and go back further in their careers, but no profiles.

The timeline of this project has been started since middle of February 2026 and due to the amount of research and formatting for each profile, it does take a while to complete just 1 or two at a time. By May 1st, 2026, we want to finish every single coach’s profile from 1947-1989.

After completing “part 1” of our project. The rest of the American Basketball Association coaches and the beginning of creating WNBA profiles will begin. A lot of the ABA coaches also coached in the NBA at some point, so those will be checked off simultaneously as the NBA coaches.

Part 2 will compile of NBA coaches from 1990 to 2009, which the 90s have a higher number of coaches compared to the 40s-80s on its own, so these may not be available until end of August, updates will be provided on that.

Feel free to check on the progress of this! I have linked our “master” directory of every single coach profile we’ve worked and our current NBA era, the 1970s. More names will be added to both of these pages as they’re made available.

Construction Phase & Disclaimer

Please note that currently, we’re in the construction phase and all formatting and information placement is subject to change to better suit the needs of our readers and users. For example, once a milestone has been reached, such as part 1 completion, we will go back and update select profiles to make them stand out more based on their accomplishments, for example, the top 15 NBA head coaches of all time named by the NBA. As for those who weren’t named to a prestige category, every coach page will have its own identity to be fully unique. Updates will be provided on that as well.

Also, please note that as more profiles are created, updates will be made to the older profiles/pages to better connect these coaches with other teams and coaches, in other terms, it’s a WORK IN PROGRESS. A lot of older profiles will be updated (formatting and adding links to basketball reference).

Disclaimer: These profiles are created purely for information purposes and are only maintained and updated by the site’s editors, not the person of interest. These profiles have no official relation to the actual coach, league, team, or person unless stated otherwise.

Coaches Corner & Profiles for Non-Professional Levels

In the past, our Coaches Corner has been a way to interview all types of sports coaches based on their career, experience, philosophy, and other ways they teach and motivate their athletes. That will still be the case, with only more opportunities for more coaches and sports content creators.

What we want to introduce and accomplish is provide more coverage of how the X and O’s are broken down, how to properly identify playcalling and sets within sports. There are plenty of coaches and content creators, who are former players and coaches themselves that can fill that gap, so we would love to partner with those types of people and resources. If you or someone you know match that description, please let us know by emailing us behindthecoaching@gmail.com. Otherwise, we will be doing our own outreach regardless.

We’re always looking for new coaches to feature, check out Coaches Corner for more information.

NBA Assistant Coach Coverage

I’m personally a huge fan of assistant coach coverage across the basketball levels, specifically in the NBA as we’re on the topic of it. Last year, I wrote an NBA assistant coach tracker for the 2025 off-season, but unfortunately, didn’t get the chance to finish it as a personal matter came up shortly after. Recently, I wrote an article that shines the Spotlight on the NBA’s Emerging Assistant Coaches, with only just a few names who are rising stars in the league. I do plan on doing a series that captures the most impactful assistant coaches in most of the NBA eras that apply (1970s and more recent as the 40s-60s weren’t known to hire assistant coaches as often). In the modern/present day, these coaches will also have the spotlight.

Starting in September more of these current assistant coaches will have articles written, as we will have a better picture of who remains with their team, changes positions, or is even hired as a head coach anywhere. Historical lists will begin to be written sometime in May, shortly after a majority of our coach profile list is complete.

Conclusion

I am very excited to continue working on these informative coach profiles and to be able to return to a position where I can innovate our content and brand presence. There is so much more to come and be done within Behind the Coaching and with each day, it’s a step closer to be able to deliver.

As mentioned, any major updates regarding Behind the Coaching and/or these projects will be communicated. If you subscribe to our Substack newsletter, you’ll get these updates to your email and don’t worry, we only do bi-weekly or weekly emails, so don’t worry about being inconvenienced or spammed.

Thank you once again for your support to Behind the Coaching, it is deeply appreciated and it’s one of the many reasons why we continue.

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