List of foreign NBA coaches

Note: These lists are correct through the start of the 2019–20 season.

List of head coaches

Nationality[A]	Birthplace[B]	Head Coach	Career[C]	Yrs	Notes	Ref.
Canada	—	Jay Triano	2008–2011; 2017–2018	4	—	[4]
Israel	United States	David Blatt	2014–2016	2	Born in the United States to Jewish parents, has dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship.	[5]
Italy	United States	Mike D'Antoni*	1998–1999; 2003–2014; 2016–present	16	Born in the United States to Italian parents, has dual U.S. and Italian citizenship.	[6]
Serbia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Serbia)	Igor Kokoškov	2018–2019	1	Also holds U.S. citizenship as of 2010.	[7]
United States	Lebanon	Steve Kerr*	2014–present	6	Born in Lebanon to Malcolm H. Kerr, a Lebanese-born American citizen.[8]	[9]
United States	Russian Empire[E] (now  Ukraine)	Eddie Gottlieb	1946–1955	9	Born in the Russian Empire, moved to the United States as a child, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
United States	West Germany (now  Germany)	Kiki VanDeWeghe	2009–2010	1	Born in West Germany[F] to a Canadian father and an American mother. Holds both American and Canadian passports.	[10]

List of assistant coaches

Nationality[A]	Birthplace[B]	Assistant Coach	Career[C]	Yrs	Notes	Ref.
Argentina	—	Pablo Prigioni*	2018–present	2	Also holds Italian citizenship.	[11]
Belize	United States	Marlon Garnett*	2015–present	5	Born in the United States to Belizean parents, has dual U.S. and Belize citizenship.
Brazil	—	Tiago Splitter*	2019–present	1	—
Canada	—	Gordon Herbert	2008–2009	1	—
Canada	—	Jamaal Magloire	2013–2016	3	—
Canada	—	Scott Morrison*	2017–present	3	—
Canada	Great Britain  England	Roy Rana*	2019–present	1	—
Canada	—	Jay Triano*	2002–2008; 2012–2017; 2018–present	13	—	[4]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Zaire (now  Democratic Republic of the Congo)	Patrick Mutombo*	2012–2015; 2016–present	7	Also holds Belgian citizenship.
Croatia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Croatia)	Neven Spahija*	2014–2017; 2019–present	4	—
Eswatini	—	Jama Mahlalela	2012–2018	6	Also holds Canadian citizenship.
Germany	West Germany[F] (now  Germany)	Detlef Schrempf	2005–2007	2	—
Georgia	United States	Tyrone Ellis	2017–2018	1	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Georgian citizen.
Great Britain  Scotland	—	Alex McKechnie*	2013–present	6	—
Greece	—	Fotios Katsikaris	2018–2019	1	—	<
Ireland	United States	Jay Larrañaga*	2012–present	8	Born in the United States to Irish parents, has dual U.S. and Irish citizenship.
Ireland	United States	Jim Moran*	2015–present	5	Born in the United States to Irish parents, has dual U.S. and Irish citizenship.
Israel	United States	Josh Oppenheimer	2013–2017	5	Born in the United States, has dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship.
Italy	United States	Mike D'Antoni	1997–1998; 2002–2003; 2015–2016	3	Born in the United States to Italian parents, has dual U.S. and Italian citizenship.	[6]
Italy	—	Riccardo Fois*	2019–present	1	—
Italy	—	Ettore Messina	2014–2019	5	—
Italy	—	Sergio Scariolo*	2018–present	2	—
Jordan	United States	Maz Trakh*	2010–2014; 2016–present	8	Born in the United States, has dual U.S. and Jordanian citizenship.
Lithuania	Soviet Union[G] (now  Lithuania)	Darius Songaila	2018–2019	1	—
Nigeria	United States	Ime Udoka*	2012–present	7	Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, has dual U.S. and Nigerian citizenship.
Philippines	United States	Chip Engelland*	1999–2000; 2003–present	18	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Filipino citizen.
Russia	United States	Becky Hammon*	2014–present	6	Born in the United States, became a naturalized Russian citizen.
Serbia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Serbia)	Aleksandar Džikić	2005–2007	2	—
Serbia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Serbia)	Igor Kokoškov*	2000–2018; 2019–present	19	Also holds U.S. citizenship as of 2010.	[12]
Serbia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Serbia)	Darko Rajaković*	2014–present	6	—	[13]
Serbia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Serbia)	Ognjen Stojaković*	2016–present	4	—	[14]
Serbia	SFR Yugoslavia[D] (now  Serbia)	Nenad Trajković	2010–2011	1	—
Spain	—	Jordi Fernández*	2016–present	4	—	[15]
Turkey	—	Mehmet Okur	2016–2017	1	—
Ukraine	Soviet Union[G] (now  Ukraine)	Vitaly Potapenko*	2010–2011; 2013–present	8	—
United States	Cuba	Octavio De La Grana*	2010–2012 2016–present	6	Born in Cuba, moved to the United States at the age of 6, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
United States	Jamaica	Patrick Ewing	2002–2017	15	Born in Jamaica, moved to the United States at the age of 11, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
United States	Romania	Ernie Grunfeld	1989–1991	2	Born in Romania, moved to the United States at the age of 8, became a naturalized U.S. citizen.	[16]
United States	U.S. Virgin Islands	Tim Duncan*	2019–present	1	—
U.S. Virgin Islands	United States	David Vanterpool*	2012–present	8	Born on the United States mainland, represented U.S. Virgin Islands internationally.[17]

• List of foreign NBA players
• Race and ethnicity in the NBA
• List of current NBA head coaches

• ^A Nationality indicates a coach's representative nationality.
• ^B Birthplace indicates a coach's country of birth. A blank column indicates that the coach's birth country is the same to his nationality.
• ^C Career in the NBA
• ^D SFR Yugoslavia dissolved in 1992 into five independent countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. FR Yugoslavia was renamed into Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003 and dissolved in June 2006 into two independent countries, Montenegro and Serbia.
• ^E The Russian Empire was overthrown during the Russian Revolution in 1917; the resulting areas would eventually lead to being involved with 22 different modern-day countries.
• ^F Germany was previously divided into two independent countries, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1949 to 1990.
• ^G The Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991 into 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.