page_title: Dave Cowens
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Dave Cowens / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dave Cowens posing with other NBA Legends and the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy (not shown) for the 2005 NBA Legends Tour: Destination Finals kick off held at the NBA store. The Tour visited various cities and United Service Organizations (USO) supported military installations as part of the NBA's on going effort to support service members during the upcoming playoff season.
context_page_description: David William Cowens is an American retired professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6'9", he played the center position and occasionally played power forward. Cowens spent most of his playing career with the Boston Celtics. He was the 1971 NBA Rookie of the Year and the 1973 NBA Most Valuable Player. Cowens won NBA championships as a member of the Celtics in 1974 and 1976. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.
  Cowens has held numerous NBA head coaching positions. Most recently, Cowens served as an assistant coach and then as a special assistant to Detroit Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars.
context_section_description: He began his coaching career by serving as a player-coach for the Boston Celtics during the 1978–79 season, but he quit coaching after the season and returned as a full-time player before retiring in 1980.
  Cowens coached the Bay State Bombardiers of the Continental Basketball Association in 1984–85.
  Cowens returned to  NBA coaching ranks, as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs in 1994–96 and was considered for the coaching job of the Boston Celtics during the 1995 off-season.
  Cowens was head coach of the Charlotte Hornets from 1996 to 1999.
  He was head coach with the Golden State Warriors from 1999 to 2001, a tenure of 105 games.
  In 2005–06 Cowens was head coach of the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
  Cowens was an assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons from 2006 to 2009.
caption: Cowens in 2005
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