Alex Hannum
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Alexander Murray Hannum (July 19, 1923 — January 18, 2002) was a professional player and Hall of Fame coach.
Hannum is mostly known for coaching the Wilt Chamberlain-led Philadelphia 76ers of 1966-67 to the NBA championship, ending the eight-year title streak of the Boston Celtics. He had also coached the Bob Pettit-led St. Louis Hawks team to the 1958 NBA Championship over the Celtics. He was the first of only three head coaches in NBA history to win championships with two different teams. (The other two are Phil Jackson and Pat Riley.) The aforementioned seasons were the only two in Celtics center Bill Russell's 13-year career in which he did not win an NBA championship. In 1964, Hannum was named NBA Coach of the Year while at the helm of the San Francisco Warriors.
In 1969, Hannum led the Rick Barry and the Oakland Oaks to an American Basketball Association title, becoming the first of two coaches to win championships in both the NBA and ABA. (Bill Sharman is the other.) Hannum won the ABA Coach of the Year honors for the 1968-69 season.
Hannum was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. Twelve Hall-of-Famers played for Hannum — in addition to Pettit, Chamberlain and Barry, he had also coached Cliff Hagan, Ed Macauley, Slater Martin, Dolph Schayes, Nate Thurmond, Billy Cunningham, Hal Greer, Elvin Hayes and Calvin Murphy. Hannum, a native of Los Angeles, California, and graduate of the University of Southern California, died at the age of 78 in San Diego, California.
