Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is an annual award given by the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) to a longtime NBA coach's life in basketball and his "standard of integrity, competitive excellence and tireless promotion" of the game. The inaugural award winner was Tom Heinsohn. The award is named after former NBA head coach Chuck Daly.
Winners
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- Jack Ramsay, Bill Fitch, Pat Riley, Jerry Sloan, Tex Winter, Hubie Brown, Rudy Tomjanovich and Don Nelson were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches. Ramsey was also inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.
- Tom Heinsohn and Lenny Wilkens were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as players and coaches. They were also inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame as players.
- K. C. Jones was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player. He also inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame as a player.
- Five of these winners were named Top 10 Coaches in NBA History in 1996: Bill Fitch, Pat Riley, Lenny Wilkens, Jack Ramsay and Don Nelson.
- Seven of these winners were named Top 15 Coaches in NBA History in 2022: Pat Riley, Lenny Wilkens, Jack Ramsay, Jerry Sloan, K. C. Jones, Larry Brown and Don Nelson.
- None of the recipients were posthumous at the time they won the award.
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