Joe Prunty

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Prunty
Occupation	Basketball Coach
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1969(1969-02-12)
Age	55
Birthplace	Sunnyvale
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Joe Prunty Biography

Joe Prunty is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on February 12, 1969 in Sunnyvale, California, United States. Joseph Michael Prunty (born February 12th 1969) is an American professional basketball coach. He was the most recent head assistant coach of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to that, he was Head Coach of the Milwaukee Bucks during the 2017-2018 season. In 37 games in the Prunty time in the era of Prunty, the Bucks were 21-16 (.568) which is the fourth highest winning percentage in the history of the franchise in the sixteen head coaches. At one time, Prunty owned the Milwaukee record for the most playoff wins by an head coach in the first year (3). Prunty was also the director of the Great Britain men’s national basketball team from June 2013 to September 2017. Prunty is a three-time NBA Champion as an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs (1999, 2003, and 2005) and was the 2005 Western Conference Champion with the Dallas Mavericks. Prunty has spent 23 years in the NBA with seven different teams. He was a part of an impressive 17 playoff appearances, and is widely regarded to be one of the top coaches within the American professional basketball. Prunty has been a coach of many of the greatest players of all time such as Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki and Giannis Antetokounmpo just to name some.

Then, in the year 2006, his quit San Antonio to become a Dallas Mavericks assistant coach, joining the team of the former Spurs head coach Avery Johnson. The team reached in the NBA Finals, losing to the Miami Heat in six games. The team finished the season with the most impressive performance in the league, with the MVP Dirk Nowitzki, but were disappointed in the first round of playoffs by the Don Nelson-led Golden State Warriors. Prunty quit the Mavericks to join to join the Portland Trail Blazers in 2008 after Avery Johnson was fired and was replaced by Rick Carlisle.

While Prunty was a member of the Trail Blazers’ coaching staff, the team had back-to-back 50 win seasons for the first time since the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 NBA seasons. He also served as the Blazers’ head coach during the NBA Summer League in 2008 and 2009. He joined the Cleveland Cavaliers as an assistant coach in 2010, spending three seasons as a member of Byron Scott’s team. On August 20, 2013, he was hired as an assistant coach by the Brooklyn Nets. Nets’ head coach Jason Kidd was suspended for the first two games of the season after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor DWI charge stemming from an incident in July 2012. Kidd named Prunty to serve as acting head coach for the team’s season opener against Cleveland Cavaliers and their home opener against Miami Heat. The team went 1–1 in these games with a loss against Cleveland and a win against Miami and LeBron James. The Nets had previously lost 13 straight games against the Heat before Prunty ended the streak in his first game against them.

Despite the future of the British national team looking bleak due to the budget constraints, Prunty stayed on as coach as the team attempted to qualify for Eurobasket 2015. The cut in funding meant the team could not afford the insurance costs required to recruit top players, had to cancel training camp, and required players to sleep in dorm beds and live on £15 a day. After losses to Bosnia and Iceland, the team failed to qualify for the tournament.

Prunty as well as his spouse Laura have been married since 2002. They have two children: Luke as well as Emma.

Joe Prunty Net Worth

Joe Prunty is one of the richest Basketball Coach from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Prunty 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Prunty was born in Sunnyvale, California and graduated from Fremont High School in 1987. He was a top high school athlete, before he went to play basketball in the NCAA tournament in De Anza College in Cupertino, California. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1991. He started with coaching at San Diego, California, as a coach at the University of San Diego High School. While he was an assistant coach at high school, Sacramento Kings head coach Luke Walton and former Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Prior, were among his players. Walton as well as Prunty would get together sixteen years after, only this time, with his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA. Prunty was the head of the freshman coach as well as a high school assistant in University High, helping the team to win three consecutive CIF San Diego Section titles.

While at University of San Diego High School was in session, an ex- University of San Diego head coach Hank Egan informed Prunty of an opportunity within the San Antonio Spurs organization. In response to this information, Prunty joined the coaching team at the Spurs as an assistant video coordinator. He resigned on April 27, 1997 in order to be an assistant coach for the University of San Diego, where his brother John Prunty, had played basketball in college. Then he returned to the Spurs during the 1997-98 season and was appointed assistant coach the year 2000. While with the Spurs the team was able to win championships in 1999, 2003 and 2005.

Joe Prunty was named the head coach of the Great Britain men’s national basketball team in June 2013 after an extensive interview process following Chris Finch’s resignation. The choice was initially somewhat controversial as Prunty had little previous international coaching experience. Prunty’s first campaign as GB head coach was summer 2013. Despite being without top players Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, Joel Freeland, and Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Prunty began his tenure with a 61–55 win over Puerto Rico in an International Test Match at The Copper Box Arena, London. The team went on to upset Israel in their first game of Eurobasket 2013, earning a dramatic overtime victory. However, Great Britain ended the group phase with a 2–3 record, not good enough to advance. Because of this result, UK Sport cut its funding for the team.

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Facts & Trivia

Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joe Prunty celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

Top Facts about Joe Prunty

1. Joe Prunty is an American professional basketball coach born in 1969.
2. He has coached for various NBA teams since 1996.
3. Prunty was the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks in 2018.
4. He also served as an assistant coach for Team USA in 2019.
5. Prunty has a career coaching record of 21-35 (.375).
6. He played college basketball at Cal Poly Pomona from 1987-1990.
7. Prunty began his coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater.
8. He has also coached internationally, including in Great Britain and Russia.
9. Prunty won a bronze medal with Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics.
10. In addition to coaching, he has worked as a scout and front office executive in the NBA.