Del Harris

Winning records – H.S, College, NBA, FIBA– 53 yr. career
Coached on 5 National Teams in FIBA international
Author of 5 outstanding coaching books between 1971 and 2015
Basketball lectures, clinics–30 states, 14 nations, 5 continents—over 5 decades
Coach of Year NBA 1995—Finalist National COY in NAIA 1968

19th head coach to win 500 NBA games in 1997.
All Time Great Coaches Listed in NBA Register under.
Member of 6 Halls of Fame
542 NBA victories in only 12 full seasons as a head coach; 11 made the playoffs.
-202 NBA playoff games on bench as head or first assistant coach
GM or VP Texas Legends NBA G-League 2009-current

Coached with 5 different national teams—teams won 2 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals. (Puerto Rico, Canada, USA, China, Dominican Republic)
Two World Championships, (Canada 1994 and USA 1998)
2004 Olympics in Athens, Head Coach of National Team of China. Finished in top 8, defeated defending World Champion, Serbia, to get into the medal round.
Many camps, clinics as well as the books and magazines articles that were translated into at least 5 languages—Greek, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Italian

Lifetime Ambassador Award for Milligan University 2024
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame 2022
NBA Coaches Association Chuck Daily Lifetime Achievement Award 2020
Tennessee Independent College and University Association Hall of Fame 2020
Hall of Fame John Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award 2019
Lifetime Achievement, NABC, International National Ass’n of Basketball Coaches, 2017
Del Harris Court, Boys/Girls Club, Richmond IN, 2016
Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana’s highest honor for a private citizen, 2015
Coach John Wooden “Keys to Life” award for character, etc. 2014
Special Service Award, Boys and Girls Club, Richmond IN, 2014
Philanthropy Award, Wernle Children’s Home, Richmond, IN, 2012
Jerry Colangelo Award, leadership on and off the court, 2010
Man of Year Nominee—Milwaukee, 1988
Houstonian Award—Houston, 1981

In only 12 full years as Head NBA coach, 8 assistants became head NBA coaches and 2 more became GMs.
Many of his high school/college players went on to become coaches.

On Point, Four Steps to Better Life Teams, Advantage Media, (2012)
Several Books and Articles on Coaching Basketball
Attacking the Zone Defenses, Championship Productions, (2015)
Winning Defense — McGraw-Hill, 1994, 1995
Playing the Game — young readers novel, Word Pub. Co., (1984)
Basketball’s Zone Offenses — Prentice Hall, (1975)
Multiple Defenses for Winning Basketball — Prentice-Hall, (1971)
Big Bang of Basketball, a history of early Indiana basketball, wrote the foreword
NBA Coaches Instructional Book, wrote final chapter on game-ending play (2008)
Many articles in coaching magazines, publications, internet (1968—current)
Publications have been translated into five different languages.

2009-current; Vice President, Texas Legends NBA G-League
2012-2018; Analyst Fox Sports Southwest, NBA pre/post game–Pelicans
2010-2012 Analyst for Dallas Mavericks, Fox Deportes Spanish TV Network
MIT Sloan Conference on Analytics in Sports, panelist—Boston, 2010
SAG-AFTRA member, having done various TV and movie roles including “Space Jam,” and sitcoms such as “Diagnosis Murder,”“In the House,” etc.
Adjunct Professor, Dallas Christian College 2011-12.
Board of Trustees, Dallas Christian College, 2014-current

Selected best assistant in league by GM poll on NBA.com three times and third twice in his last five years, including first in each of his last two years in Dallas.
Three coaches he worked for made Coach of the Year during his time with them.