Mavericks General Manager/Head Coach Don Nelson owns more than 40 years of NBA experience as a player, coach and general manager. In league history only Lenny Wilkens has more combined games as a player or a coach. Nelson also has more than two decades of service as an NBA general manager...Book Don Nelson for Your Event

The 2003-4 season is his seventh with the team, and the signs of improvement by the Mavericks under Nelson can be seen each year. When he arrived, the team won 19 games in a shortened season which would have equated to 32 in a full year. Then during the 1999-2000 campaign, Nelson led the Mavericks to a 40-42 record which included a 9-1 April which was the best month in team history.

The great turnaround continued during 2000-01 as the Mavericks became one of the best teams in the NBA. Nelson led the Mavericks to just their third 50-win season in franchise history, their first playoff appearance in 11 years, their first winning season in 11 years and the best road record in franchise history. The team posted a winning record in each month for the first time in 13 years.

Nelson is the third-winningest coach in NBA history entreing the 2003-04 season with a record of 1096-828. He and Pat Riley are the only coaches ever to be named Coach of the Year three times (1983, 1985 and 1992). He was chosen one of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA History by a panel of former coaches, players and media selected by the NBA in commemoration of the NBA at 50 celebration. He coached Dream Team II to a gold medal at the 1994 World Championships in Toronto. The front-office architect of the Milwaukee Bucks' seven consecutive division title teams from 1979-1986, as well as the force behind the revival of the Golden State Warriors into a perennial playoff team in the late '80s and early '90s, Nelson has established himself as one of the NBA's premier basketball executives over the last three decades.

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