Our GOAT coach

Rip to the GOAT Sacramento Kings coach. His teams he coached led me to fall in love with basketball, hopefully his name is hanging in our rafters by game 1 of next year.

Man this hits hard. He created some of the most beautiful basketball I’ve ever seen on the Kings. It’s safe to say I wouldn’t be a fan today if it weren’t for him. He should have been our Popovich or Pat Riley but God seems to hate us.

REST IN PEACE FOREVER KING 👑

Most impressive number might be 56 years of marriage. RIP

Best Kings coach oat?

What a great coach who got unlucky several times in his career. Should be remembered as an all-time great.

He was an amazing basketball mind, RIP. Loved the way he coached our post Yao/T-Mac team full of scrappy fun vets.

Rest in peace to an absolute legend.

One of the best to ever do it.

May his family be able to grieve in peace.

Serious question. Is he the greatest coach to never win an NBA title?

Terrible loss for that family and David

They had already lost his brother just a few years ago

RIP that man led and deserved to beat those lakers

RIP

Must be hard times for David Adelman (his son), the Nuggets’ head coach. This sucks.

Rip

Condolences to David, poor guy is having a brutal year

Aw, man. That’s a shame.

I loved the 2001-2002 Sacramento Kings.

He was a fantastic coach.

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People also forget that he coached Portland to two NBA Finals in an incredible run with Clyde Drexler losing to the Bad Boy Pistons in 90 and Jordan in 92. He then led the Kings to that incredible run and had some good years with the Rockets too. He had a lackluster Timberwolves run but that organization was not going anywhere

Fuck this shitty planet where we all inevitably die. 

those kings-lakers playoff series in the 2000s were appointment television

bummer

Man, sometimes I forget that these legends are actually getting old. Rest in peace, GOAT. I wish I had been old enough to witness your contributions to the Kings.

I grew up in Chicago but lived in Citrus Heights during the 2001-2002 season.

I was so, so impressed how much Sacramento and the surrounding areas love their Kings. The passion for basketball that town has completely amazed me. I found their love for the game very admirable.

And even as a Bulls fan, I legit loved watching those Kings play.

They had some of the best structurally sound poise/passing of any team I’ve ever seen.

I believe they lost only five games at the Arco Arena during that entire season.

Absolutely robbed in the WCF.

RIP The Quiet Innovator

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Great coach that challenged shaq and kobe RIP

The only coach to turn the Kangz in to a championship contender. Therefore, the GOAT. Rest in peace, coach.

Is he David Adelmans dad? Rip

Damn. I grew up in Oakland & a Warriors fan, but my brother & grandparents lived in Sac, so I always rooted for the Kings too (until this whole Light the Beam nonsense). Went to hoop camps trying to style my game after Chris Webber with the passing.

RIP! No one can convince me the Kings weren’t robbed of a trip to the finals.

RIP GOAT, David Stern really did you dirty.

His dumbfounded face during Q4 of Game 6, when our championship was being stolen by Ted Bernhardt, will forever be emblazoned in my mind.

He let his guys play freely and capitalized on their strengths. Great great coach.

RIP. His Kings were a fun team to watch.

Damn, ouch, RIP Coach Adelman. Condolences to my Kings brothers and sisters.

Went to Rick Adleman’s Hoop Heaven two years in a row in the early nineties, such a blast and learning experience both on and off the court. One of the kids was homesick, we stayed there for like a week in the Louis and Clark dorms and we were like 10, 11 years old, I remember seeing Rick consoling the crying kid, even though there were college aged counselors there that could have been taking care of him.

Damn I’m sad cause his time with the Rockets during the TMac-Yao years is what got me as a fan of the league. RIP Coach.

Last head coach to run an all-white starting lineup. 🤣

People talk about MJ being in the way of players getting rings, but the only thing preventing Adelman from getting rings was Phil Jackson. He was the coach for the Blazers when the Bulls won in ‘92 and the Kings when they lost in 7 to the Lakers in 2002.

RIP to one of the most underrated coaches ever.

Great coach. I miss that mini Kings-Mavs playoff rivalry in the early 2000s

Rest in Peace, Rick. One of the sport’s greatest ever contributors. His contributions live on through David and will be remembered fondly.

An excellent coach . 2002 NBA champion . 

Rick adelman was a damn good coach. Right around the caliber of Rick Carlisle for those of you that don’t know him well. Or Mike D’Antoni. He was just one of those steady, sure fire hires and brought out the best of his teams.

RIP coach

RIP. Thank you for the memorable playoff battles.

I remember back in 2009 or whatever year, the Yao rockets were making a nice run towards the end of the year and someone made a viral theme song, that had line like “Rick Adelman the coach of the #1 team, THE HOUSTON ROCKETS”

Always think of that when I think of Rick, RIP.

His Rockets teams were fun as hell. Rest easy, Coach.

This week fuckin sucks.

Nooooooo

FUCK.

Best Kings coach of all time, we know it ain’t saying much. T10 GOAT coach, an innovator of old school ways that set the modern era with the Princeton/motion offenses; SSOL Suns and Dub dynasty owe a heavy debt(and to Pete Carril!). A player’s coach, not a bad word can be found about him from his rosters and an example of a good person off the court.

A good player in his own right.

My all time favorite NBA coach. I missed seeing him on the sidelines. RIP to one of the greats.

Guy was the coach of the team I cared about last in NBA. Sacramento. Shame he could never get a title but should have had one the year refs screwed em

The main thing I remember about him was his many expressions of disbelief during the 2002 WCF.

His Sacramento Kings were the definition of a well-coached team.

RIP to a true GOAT

Rest in peace goat

RIP thanks for the memories 

Rest in Peace 🕊️

RIP

Rest easy

RIP to a legend.

Very sad news. Thank you for the 22 game winning streak ♥️

Goat Sacramento coach. Thank you for the memories coach. You will be missed. RIP.

RIP to a Sacramento legend. Thank you for everything.

Damn RIP… hands down greatest coach in Chemeketa Community College history.

TIL Rick, Weird Al, and I are from the same town. RIP My fellow townsman

Sad Kings noises… i will ring my cowbell in his honor

RIP coach

you whipped our ass in the 00s

RIP Coach Adelman, I loved those early 2000 King squads that he coached, very fun basketball to watch. Also enjoyed his time in Houston, helped us go 7 against the 09 Lakers with both Yao and T-Mac injured

RIP coach. Probably the most underrated coach in the league history

Legendary coach. Phil Jackson got in his way of winning a championship more than a few times.

RIP. What an excellent coach he was.

Grew up in the Sacramento Valley in the early oughts, haven’t watched a full NBA game since something like 2009, yet the joyful Kings memories are flooding in. Almost in tears. RIP.

That offense he brought to Sacramento was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen as a fan and those Blazers teams of the 90s were fun as hell too. RIP to a legend.

Those years and all those battles. We knew the Kings were coached well and always ready. RIP. Sad day for basketball.

Fuck Tim Donaghy

“The Greatest Show On Court”

RIP well respected Coach Adelman.

I know 79 is old but damn… I need to soak up time with my family.

Rip Condolences to his family 

Helluva coach and seemed like a good dude. His SAC teams were awesome but he also was great in POR.

RIP

RIP. One of the best coach if not the best for Rockets 🙏🙏🙏

A Great coach, RIP

WOW RIP MY FAVE COACH AND SUCH A GREAY PERSON OMFG. HE SHOULD BE REMEMBERED AS AN ALL TIME TOP LVL COACH AND GREAT PERSON WOW RIP

RIP Big Rick

RIP coach

the pioneer of the corner offense

rip to a shining beacon of basketball

The Rockets were never in San Diego right?

what a legend

rest in peace.

Rip

RIP.

https://youtu.be/Xs-VxAGWLPI?si=1xV-0F-_5SVOWryx What I’ll forever think about when I hear his name 

RIP.

Thank you for the good years, Coach. RIP.

He was the prototype for modern NBA play, just got cheated out of a well deserved ring. RIP Coach

Absolute legend

RIP

This one hurts. Definitely should have a banner or a part of the arena named after him.

Damn, can’t believe this. The first coach’s name I knew as a kid, and the best ever for the Kings. RIP.

RIP

Rip

RIP to a great coach and great man.

Chuck won’t forget him

RIP

2nd best blazers coach of all time

RIP to a Legend

Sad day, he coached the team for my first Blazers memories.

Met him briefly once, shook his hand. It was very brief, but he seemed nice. I hope his family and friends get through this okay.

damn. rip coach

Damn…RIP. He gave us some really great years at Houston.

Oh no 😔

The best team to never  win the title…rip

My guy.

rip 🙏

Didn’t Phil Jackson motivate the Lakers by splicing footage of Rick with Hitler? Or is that pure fabrication. Anyway sad news great coach and seemed like a great leader.

The Kings’ Head Coach when I first started watching basketball. Thank you, sir. Rest in Peace.

RIP Coach

Clyde Drexler called him a good, loyal person and blasted his firing from the Trail Blazers. RIP

RIP to the true 2002 WCF Champion

I remember him as the coach Chuck was trying to give a shoutout to but forgot his name in the middle of it.

Loved this guy. So underrated. He did more with less.