College - Oklahoma
Terry Stotts enters his second season as the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. He was hired as the ninth head coach in team history on July 8, 2005. Last season, he guided the Bucks to a 40-42 regular season record and a spot in the NBA playoffs, where the team lost in the first round to Detroit, 4-1. The season included many highlights, including NBA single-game records for most three-pointers in one quarter (11 in the third quarter on 3/28/06 vs. Phoenix) and fewest turnovers in a game (2 on 4/1/06 vs. Indiana), as well as a new NBA record for becoming the first team in the shot clock era to win their first 13 games decided by 6 points or less (the previous record was 11).

A 13-year NBA veteran coach, Stotts spent the 2004-05 season as the lead assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors under first-year NBA head coach Mike Montgomery. With the youngest roster in the NBA (25 years, 225 days), the Warriors closed out the season with an 18-10 record, including a franchise best 14-4 finish over their final 18 games. Prior to the 2004-05 campaign, Stotts spent two seasons in Atlanta, the last year and one-half as head coach of the Hawks after he replaced Lon Krueger on December 26, 2002.

Before joining the Hawks in August of 2002, Stotts enjoyed a highly successful stint as an assistant coach for nine seasons under George Karl - five with the Seattle SuperSonics and four with the Bucks. During that stretch, his teams concluded each season with a .500-or-better record and qualified for the playoffs in eight of the nine seasons. Stotts’ relationship with Karl extends beyond the Sonics and Bucks: the two coached together with the Albany Patroons of the CBA in 1990-91 and Karl coached Stotts when he played for the CBA’s Montana Golden Nuggets.

In four seasons as lead assistant in Milwaukee, Stotts helped the Bucks amass a 163-133 mark, punctuated by three appearances in the playoffs, a Central Division Championship and a berth in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2001. While in Seattle, the Sonics posted a 357-135 record, captured four Pacific Division titles, reached the Western Conference Finals twice and appeared in the 1996 NBA Finals.

Stotts was a second round choice of the Houston Rockets in the 1980 NBA Draft and began his professional playing career in Italy before joining the Montana Golden Nuggets of the CBA. He returned to Europe for several seasons, playing in Spain and France, before returning to the United States to join the coaching staff of the CBA’s Albany Patroons in 1990-91. During his first year on a professional coaching staff, he helped lead the Patroons to an all-time CBA-best 50-6 record. Stotts remained in the CBA for one more season with the Fort Wayne Fury before moving on to the Sonics.

A four-year starter at the University of Oklahoma, Stotts earned All-Big Eight honors as a senior and was named Academic All-America in each of his final two collegiate seasons. He was named the university’s outstanding senior student-athlete and was one of three individuals chosen nationally to receive an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship. Stotts earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology and, in 1988, earned his Masters of Business Administration from his alma mater.

Stotts was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in Illinois, Wisconsin, Guam and Indiana. His parents, Frank and Jayne, were both teachers. His late father was also a basketball coach with one of his coaching tenures coming in Marshfield, WI, from 1965-69. Coach Stotts and his wife, Jan, celebrated their 23rd anniversry this year and live in Mequon, WI. Stotts has participated in the NBA’s “Basketball Without Borders” program the past two summers (Argentina in 2005 and South Africa in 2006) and served as the honorary chair for the “Light the Night Walk” for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation this past September. He has also served as the Vice President of the National Basketball Coaches Association for the past six years.