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Don Nelson

1940 - Today

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Donald Arvid Nelson (born May 15, 1940) is an American former professional basketball player and head coach. Nelson is second all-time in regular season wins of any coach in NBA history, with 1,335 (he held the record for most wins for almost 12 years before he was surpassed by Gregg Popovich in 2022). He coached the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Golden State Warriors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Nelson has received more than 1,860,982 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Don Nelson is the 45th most popular basketball player (up from 59th in 2019), the 3,622nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,816th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Don Nelson ranks 45 out of 1,268Before him are Pat Riley, Moses Malone, Stephen Curry, Manute Bol, Allen Iverson, and Aleksandar Đorđević. After him are Rick Barry, Red Auerbach, Svetislav Pešić, Yao Ming, Reggie Miller, and Pau Gasol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Don Nelson ranks 204Before him are Graham McRae, Angela Carter, Marie-José Nat, Gloria Leonard, Louis Pilot, and Charles Robert Jenkins. After him are Sharad Pawar, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Jana Brejchová, Christoph Blocher, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., and Isdal Woman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Nelson ranks 3,622 out of 18,182Before him are Friz Freleng (1906), Halton Arp (1927), John Petrucci (1967), Burl Ives (1909), James Edward Keeler (1857), and Charles Robert Jenkins (1940). After him are R. A. Salvatore (1959), Gore Verbinski (1964), Michael Jai White (1967), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), Crawford Long (1815), and John Mearsheimer (1947).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Don Nelson ranks 31Before him are Bob Pettit (1932), Isiah Thomas (1961), Pat Riley (1945), Moses Malone (1955), Stephen Curry (1988), and Allen Iverson (1975). After him are Rick Barry (1944), Red Auerbach (1917), Reggie Miller (1965), Muggsy Bogues (1965), Kevin Durant (1988), and Robert Parish (1953).