Nate McMillan will serve as the club’s 11th Head Coach in team history. McMillan joins the Trail Blazers after serving as Head Coach of the Seattle Supersonics since November 27, 2000, compiling a record of 212-183 (.537). This past season, he led the Sonics to a 52-30 record and a Northwest Division Championship. The Sonics made it to the Western Conference Semi-Finals before bowing to the eventual NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs in six games. Also during this past campaign, McMillan won his 200th game as Sonics Head Coach.

Having spent his entire 12-year playing career with Seattle, Nate McMillan was named the Sonics interim Head Coach on Nov. 27, 2000 after serving as assistant coach for the previous two seasons.

As the 12th Head Coach in the franchise’s history, and the youngest in the NBA, he made his debut with a 105-93 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers at the Rose Garden on Nov. 28, 2000.

Two nights later, he coached his first home game, leading the Sonics to a 121-88 win over the L.A. Lakers at KeyArena -- the team’s second largest margin of victory in the 2000-01 season.

Under McMillan’s leadership, the Sonics swept their season series 4-0 against the Lakers for just the second time in franchise history (1993-94). He led the Sonics to their most successful month in March, when the team won 10 of 11, including a season-high six-game winning streak from March 11 to March 19, to finish the month with a 12-5 record.

In McMillan’s first full NBA campaign as a head coach, he guided Seattle to a 45-37 regular-season record and the seventh seed in the 2002 Western Conference Playoffs. Losing their opening postseason series to the San Antonio Spurs, the Sonics were the only team in the West to take their First Round opponent to a Game Five.

McMillan was born Aug. 3, 1964. He and wife Michelle have two children, Jamelle and Brittany Michelle.

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