Igor Kokoškov
Kokoškov in 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 17 December 1971 Banatski Brestovac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian / American | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| College | University of Belgrade | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1992–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| As a coach: | |||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | OKK Beograd (youth) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | OKK Beograd (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | OKK Beograd | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Partizan (youth) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Missouri (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Los Angeles Clippers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2008 | Detroit Pistons (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Serbia and Montenegro (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2015 | Georgia | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2013 | Phoenix Suns (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Cleveland Cavaliers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Orlando Magic (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Utah Jazz (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Slovenia | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Phoenix Suns | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Sacramento Kings (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Serbia | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Fenerbahçe | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Dallas Mavericks (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Brooklyn Nets (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2026 | Atlanta Hawks (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| Career highlights | |||||||||||||||
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Igor Stefan Kokoškov (Serbian Cyrillic: Игор Стефан Кокошков; born 17 December 1971) is a Serbian professional basketball coach.
He had spent 19 years in the NBA as an assistant coach, with a brief stint as head coach for the Phoenix Suns for a full season. He spent a season in Turkey with Fenerbahçe, before returning to the NBA to become an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks in 2021.
Kokoškov was the first European to be a full-time assistant coach in NCAA Division I college basketball, and the first non-American to hold such a position in the NBA. In 2004, he became the first non-American assistant coach to win an NBA championship, and the first to serve on an NBA All-Star Game coaching staff. He is also the first coach born and raised outside of North America to be hired as a head coach in the NBA.
He won EuroBasket 2017, while working as the head coach of the Slovenian men's national team.