(LEARFIELD) – Former Bucks coach Don Nelson has been honored by the National Basketball Coaches Association.
Nelson received the Chuck Daley Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday’s NBA Finals contest between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers.
Nelson is 85 years old.
Yahoo Sports reports that when he retired in 2010, he was the league’s all-time winningest coach with 13-hundred-35 victories – 540 in Milwaukee.
The Bucks won seven straight division titles under his leadership, playing in the Eastern Conference finals three times.
