NBA Head Coach Hot Seat: Next Head Coach Fired Odds

With the calendar officially flipped over to 2025, it’s high time to reassess where each of the 30 teams competing in the NBA stand, with a handful of head coaches either on the league’s short list for Coach of the Year honors or on the precipice of losing their jobs.

In the latter camp, you’ll find league cellar dwellers like the 5-29 (.147) New Orleans Pelicans, who stand below other bottom feeders like the 6-25 Washington Wizards and the Charlotte Hornets and Utah Jazz, who are 7-25 apiece this season.

While the hometown Boston Celtics are currently atop Bet365 Massachusetts’ NBA title odds board entering the new year, at +225, it’s worth wondering which NBA coach will be the next out the door in the 30-team league.

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Next NBA Coach to be Fired Odds

Team	Coach	Odds	Percent Chance
Utah Jazz	Will Hardy	22.2%	+350
New Orleans Pelicans	Willie Green	20.0%	+400
Portland Trail Blazers	Chauncey Billups	20.0%	+400
Chicago Bulls	Billy Donovan	12.5%	+700
Toronto Raptors	Darko Rajakovic	8.3%	+1100
Philadelphia 76ers	Nick Nurse	6.3%	+1500
Indiana Pacers	Rick Carlisle	6.3%	+1500
The Field	--	8.3%	+1100

Which NBA Head Coach Gets Fired First?

Right now, we have Jazz head coach Will Hardy as our leading candidate to get axed next, at +350, while Willie Green of the Pelicans and Chauncy Billups of the 11-21 (.344) Portland Trail Blazers are next, at +400 apiece.

Throw in former two-time national championship winning head coach Billy Donovan of the Chicago Bulls at +700 and Darko Rajakovic of the Toronto Raptors at +1100 and you have the upper end of the NBA firing line pool, while longshots include another former Raptors head coach (Nick Nurse of the Philadelphia 76ers) and Rick Carlisle of the Indiana Pacers, with the latter two checking in at +1500 apiece.

For now, though, the leading candidate to get booted out of the NBA next is the second-year head coach of the Jazz, as Utah skids its way through another miserable season under the former San Antonio Spurs and Celtics assistant head coach in 2024-25.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan has been covering sports and sports betting for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.