Igor Kokoškov profile
- Club
- _Free Agent Basketball
- Position
- Manager
- Nationality
- Serbia
- Date of birth
- 1971-12-17
- Birthplace
- Banatski Brestovac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
- Height
- 6 ft 4 1⁄2 in (1.94 m)
About Igor Kokoškov
Igor Stefan Kokoškov (Serbian Cyrillic: Игор Стефан Кокошков; born 17 December 1971) is a Serbian professional basketball coach.
He had spent 19 years in the NBA as an assistant coach, with a brief stint as head coach for the Phoenix Suns for a full season. He spent a season in Turkey with Fenerbahçe, before returning to the NBA to become an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks in 2021.
Kokoškov was the first European to be a full-time assistant coach in NCAA Division I college basketball, and the first non-American to hold such a position in the NBA. In 2004, he became the first non-American assistant coach to win an NBA championship, and the first to serve on an NBA All-Star Game coaching staff. He is also the first coach born and raised outside of North America to be hired as a head coach in the NBA.
He won EuroBasket 2017, while working as the head coach of the Slovenian men's national team.