ATLANTA Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer was named as this season’s NBA Coach of the Year.
Budenholzer received 67 first-place votes and 513 total points from a panel of 130 sportswriters and broadcasters.
He led Atlanta to a 60-22 record in his second season. The 60 wins were a franchise-record, beating the previous best of 57 during the 1986-87 season. The Hawks earned the No. 1 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference and won the Southeast Division title for the first time since 1993-94.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr finished in second place with 56 first-place votes and 471 total points while Milwaukee Bucks coach Jason Kidd was third with 57 points (one first-place vote).
The Hawks had a 22-win improvement after going 38-44 in 2013-14. Atlanta tied for sixth in the league in offensive rating (points scored per 100 possessions) and ranked seventh in defensive rating (points allowed per 100 possessions). Six Hawks averaged double figures in scoring, and the team set a franchise-record for three-pointers with 818. Noli Cruz
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