List of Toronto Raptors head coaches

The Raptors have played their home games at the Air Canada Centre since 1999.

The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Raptors are the only Canadian-based NBA team.^[1] The team joined the NBA in 1995 as an expansion team with the Vancouver Grizzlies (which relocated to Memphis, Tennessee in 2001).^[2] The Raptors first played their home games at the SkyDome (now known as the Rogers Centre), before moving to the Air Canada Centre in 1999, where they have played since. The Raptors are owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and Jeff Weltman is their general manager.^[3][4]

There have been eight head coaches for the Raptors franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Brendan Malone, who coached for one season. Dwane Casey is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (397) and the most regular-season game wins (210). Casey is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (31), the most playoff-game wins (13), and the highest winning percentage in the regular-season (.533). Lenny Wilkens has the highest winning percentage in the playoffs (.471) and is the only Raptors coaches to have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. Sam Mitchell is the only Raptors coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 2006–07 season.^[5] Butch Carter, Kevin O'Neill, Mitchell, and Jay Triano have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Raptors. Triano was the interim head coach of the Raptors since Mitchell was fired.^[6][7] Triano is the first Canadian head coach in NBA history.^[8]

Key

GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
Win%	Winning percentage
#	Number of coaches[a]
*	Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Raptors
	Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015–16 season.

#	Name	Term[b]	GC	W	L	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%	Achievements	Reference
			Regular season				Playoffs
1	Malone, BrendanBrendan Malone	1995–96	82	21	61	.256	—	—	—	—		[9]
2	Walker, DarrellDarrell Walker	1996–1998	131	41	90	.313	—	—	—	—		[10]
3	Carter, ButchButch Carter*	1998–2000	165	73	92	.442	3	0	3	.000		[11]
4	Wilkens, LennyLenny Wilkens	2000–03	246	113	133	.459	17	8	9	.471	One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[12]	[13]
5	O'Neill, KevinKevin O'Neill*	2003–04	82	33	49	.402	—	—	—	—		[14]
6	Mitchell, SamSam Mitchell	2004–2008	345	156	189	.452	11	3	8	.273	2006–07 NBA Coach of the Year[5]	[15]
7	Triano, JayJay Triano*	2009–2011	229	87	142	.380	—	—	—			[16]
8	Casey, DwaneDwane Casey	2011–present	394	210	184	.533	31	13	18	.419		[17]

• 
  Sam Mitchell was the head coach for the Raptors from 2004 to 2008.
• 
  Jay Triano was the head coaches from 2009 to 2011.
• 
  Dwane Casey is the current head coach.

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the Raptors. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

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