{"id":179418,"date":"2025-05-09T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/the-nba-coaches-of-the-year-since-1979-80-quiz\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:00:29","slug":"the-nba-coaches-of-the-year-since-1979-80-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/the-nba-coaches-of-the-year-since-1979-80-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;NBA Coaches of the Year since 1979-80&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/cleveland_cavaliers\/69\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> head coach Kenny Atkinson led the Cavs to their first 60-win season without LeBron James and the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs en route to being named 2024-25 NBA Coach of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>Now, with the Cavaliers heading to Indiana down 2-0 in the series, Atkinson has a chance to prove why.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to today&#8217;s quiz. How many NBA Coach of the Year winners since the 1979-80 season can you name in five minutes?<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/the_nba_coaches_of_the_year_since_1979_80_quiz\/s1__42171437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson led the Cavs to their first 60-win season without LeBron James and the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs en route to being named 2024-25 NBA Coach of the Year. Now, with the Cavaliers heading to Indiana down 2-0 in the series, Atkinson has a chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}