Chuck Daly

Basketball Player

1930 – 2009

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Who was Chuck Daly?

Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to consecutive National Basketball Association Championships in 1989 and 1990, and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He had a 14-year NBA coaching career, and eight seasons in the college ranks prior.

Daly is a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, being inducted in 1994 for his individual coaching career, and in 2010 was posthumously inducted as the head coach of the "Dream Team". The Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is named after him.

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Born
Jul 20, 1930
St. Marys
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
  • St. Callistus Catholic School
  • St. Bonaventure University
    (1948 - 1949)
Died
May 9, 2009
Jupiter

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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