Eastern Conference Coach of the Month on three occasions (January, March and April) and is the first Bulls head coach to win the award three times in a season. In year two with the Bulls,
Chicago posted a league-best record of 50-16 (.758), including a league-best road record of 24-9 (.727), en route to a second consecutive Central Division crown and the NBA Playoffs. Thibodeau broke the NBA record for reaching the 100-win plateau the fastest by winning his 100th game in his 130th contest as a head coach (03/19/12). He directed the Eastern Conference All-Stars at the 2012 All- Star Game in Orlando, Fla., and fin- ished as runner-up for the 2011-12 NBA Coach of the Year. In 2012-13, despite missing all-
star guard Derrick Rose for the entire season, Chicago compiled a 45-37 record, finished second in the Central Division.
Thibodeau served as the associate
head coach of the Boston Celtics from 2007-10, where the Celtics made two trips to the NBA Finals and won the 2008 NBA Championship. All told, he has been part of teams that have advanced to the NBA postseason 17 times, including three trips to the NBA Finals (1999, 2008 and 2010).
Monty Williams Having previously represented
USA Basketball as a player, this is Williams first coaching assignment with USA Basketball. “I want to thank Mr. Colangelo for
his confidence in me and I am truly honored and looking forward to work- ing on Coach K’s staff,” said Williams. “For me to be involved as an assistant coach for USA Basketball where I can represent my country is a privilege and the ultimate honor. I was fortunate back in the early ‘90s to be on the USA 22- and-under roster where we won the gold medal in Spain, and I felt a tremendous amount of pride. With this honor, I feel the same sense of pride again for my country, but I also want to make the Benson’s, Pelican organization, New Orleans community and my family proud.” On June 7, 2010, Williams was
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Tom Thibodeau (above) and Monty Williams (below) join Jim Boeheim to make up the 2013-16 USA National Team coaching staff.
after being named the NBA’s Western Conference Coach of the Month for January of 2011. In his sophomore campaign,
Williams managed 22 different play- ers and 26 different starting lineups through an injury-plagued season where six players missed upwards of 15 games due to injury or illness. Through it all, Williams’ squad increased its wins in every month
from January to April, and closed out the regular season with a 6-1 stretch at the New Orleans Arena. Williams spent the previous five
seasons as an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. At the date of his hiring, Williams became the youngest head coach in the NBA at 38 years old. Prior to joining the Trail Blazers,
he won an NBA Championship as a coaching staff intern with the San Antonio Spurs in 2004-05, and, during the summer of 2005, coached the Spurs’ Summer League entry in the Rocky Mountain Revue. Selected by New York in the first
round (24th overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft, Williams was a nine-year veteran of the NBA before chronic knee prob- lems forced him into retirement in 2003. He was an honorable mention All-
appointed head coach of the New Orleans Hornets (now Pelicans), and 2012-13 saw him complete his third year as the franchise's head mentor. Williams’ began his first stint as a
head coach with a successful season in 2010-11, leading the Hornets to a 46-36 record and the seventh seed in the 2011 NBA playoffs. In post-season play, the Hornets pushed former NBA-champion Lakers to six games and Williams placed seventh in Coach of the Year voting,
American at Notre Dame after averaging 22.4 points and 8.4 rebounds during his senior season. Williams was away from basketball for two years during college (from 1990 to 1992) after being diag- nosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a rare condition of thickened muscle between the chambers of the heart. He earned a degree from Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, majoring in communications and theatre. In high school, he was a 4.0 student at Potomac in Oxon Hill, Md. Williams played on a pair of USA
Basketball teams. Selected as a member of the 1993 USA 22 & Under World Championship Qualifying Team, he averaged 5.5 ppg. and assisted the U.S. to a 6-1 record, the silver medal and a qualifying berth for the FIBA 22 & Under World Championship. At the 1993 FIBA 22 & Under World Championship he averaged 5.8 points and 3.5 rebounds a game as the U.S. finished a perfect 8-0 record to win the gold medal.
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