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NBA Coach of the Year Odds 2025: Kenny Atkinson Takes Top Spot
After a summer sojourn, the 82-game regular season that we’ve become accustomed to from the chilly confines of Boston west towards the Pacific Northwest returns this week, with teams across the 30-team NBA completing at least 10 games worth of action so far, including the 9-2 Celtics.
This year, the defending champion Boston Celtics are once again the favorites to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy again, with the team at Bet365 Massachusetts giving the franchise +260 title odds in 2025.
Throw in the Oklahoma City Thunder (+475), New York Knicks (+850), Dallas Mavericks (+1000), Minnesota Timberwolves (+1200) and Denver Nuggets (+1400) and you have the upper end of the NBA title odds board this year.
With so many teams holding decent title or playoff odds, it’s worth wondering which NBA head coach will take home Coach of the Year honors, which is why BetMassachusetts.com used its Massachusetts sports betting mindset and compiled a list of hypothetical odds on which candidates we see having the best chance at doing just that this season.
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NBA Coach of the Year Odds 2025
Coach | Team | Odds |
Kenny Atkinson | Cleveland Cavaliers | +170 |
Joe Mazzulla | Boston Celtics | +700 |
Mike Budenholzer | Phoenix Suns | +750 |
Steve Kerr | Golden State Warriors | +750 |
JJ Redick | Los Angeles Lakers | +2000 |
Mark Daigneault | Oklahoma City Thunder | +2500 |
Jamahl Mosley | Orlando Magic | +2500 |
Ime Udoka | Houston Rockets | +2500 |
Gregg Popovich | San Antonio Spurs | +2500 |
Tyronn Lue | Los Angeles Clippers | +2500 |
*Odds according to DraftKings Massachusetts Sportsbook on Nov. 12th, 2024.
A week into the regular season, top contenders to win the NBA’s Coach of the Year award include former Golden State Warriors assistant and first-year Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson, who has the Eastern Conference club at 12-0 to start the year, netting him +170 COY odds right now on DraftKings Sportsbook.
Throw in Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla at +700, Mike Budenholzer of the Phoenix Suns and Steve Kerr of the Warriors at +750 each. You have the upper end of the NBA’s Coach of the Year pool sorted. At the same time, JJ Redick of the Los Angeles Lakers, Ime Udoka of the Houston Rockets, Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs, Tyronn Lue of the Los Angeles Clippers and Jamahl Mosley of the Orlando Magic are listed at +2500 to win the award this season.
Right now, Atkinson and the Cavaliers have a three-game advantage over the Celtics for first place in the East, with the club currently sitting as the only team in the association with double-digit wins during the opening stretch of the NBA’s marathon of a regular season.
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NBA Coach of the Year Winners
Year | Manager | Team |
2024 | Mark Daigneault | Oklahoma City Thunder |
2023 | Mike Brown | Sacramento Kings |
2022 | Monty Williams | Phoenix Suns |
2021 | Tom Thibodeau | New York Knicks |
2020 | Nick Nurse | Toronto Raptors |
Since 2020, the NBA’s winner of the Coach of the Year award have included luminaries like Nurse, Thibodeau and Daigneault, who won the honor last year after guiding the Thunder to a 57-25 (.695) record last season.
That win total represented a 17-game improvement over the team’s standing at the end of the 2022-23 season, illustrating how far OKC has come under Daigneault’s watch, which illustrates the type of improvement that voters are looking for this season.
This year, coaching hot shots like Udoka, Thibodeau, Mazzulla and Daigneault will all look to add another accolade to their respective trophy cases, taking home the game’s top honor for sideline leaders in 2024-25.
No one has ever won the award in back-to-back seasons, something to keep in mind at MA betting apps this season.
USA Today photo by Paul Rutherford.
NBA Coach of the Year FAQ
Mark Daigneault of the Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2023-24 NBA Coach of the Year award after leading the team to 57 wins, 1st place in the Northwest Division and a Western Conference semifinals appearance.
As of November 12th, 2024, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson is the favorite to win NBA Coach of the Year at +170, according to DraftKings Sportsbook.
NBA Coach of the Year voting is conducted by a panel of 100 media members. Each voter casts a ballot ranking the top five coaches in the league, with the first-place vote earning five points, the second-place vote earning four points, and so on. The coach with the most points at the end of the voting process is awarded the Coach of the Year.
The NBA Coach of the Year award is typically announced in May, near the end of the NBA playoffs. This allows voters to assess the performance of coaches throughout the regular season and postseason before making their final decisions.
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