The Thunder’s Mark Daigneault has been selected as the league’s Coach of the Year, NBA Communications announced.
Daigneault coached one of the league’s youngest rosters to the top spot in the Western Conference this season. He won in a landslide, racking up 89 first-place votes, compared to 10 for all the remaining candidates. He had nine second-place votes and one third-place vote for 473 points (X link).
The Magic’s Jamahl Mosley finished second with four first-place votes and 158 points. The Timberwolves’ Chris Finch wound up third with 105 points, followed by the Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla (79 points) and the Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau (59 points).
Daigneault, in his fourth season as the Thunder’s head coach, joins Scott Brooks (2009-10) as the only coaches in franchise history to earn the award.
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