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Tex Winter (1953)

Morice Fredrick "Tex" Winter (born February 25, 1922 in Huntington Park , California - † October 10, 2018 in Manhattan , Kansas ) was an American basketball coach . He won nine NBA titles as assistant coach to the multiple NBA champion Phil Jackson and was considered a co-inventor of the triangle offense . As head coach, Winter coached the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for two years in the early 1970s . However, from the 1940s through the 1980s, he was best known as a college coach.

Career

Winter introduced the " Triangle offense " (triangle attack strategy) in the 1950s and wrote a book of the same name about it in 1962. When he and young coach Phil Jackson were assistant coaches for the Chicago Bulls in the 1980s , Jackson took up his ideas. When he became head coach, he made Winter his assistant. Together they implemented the triangle offense and won the NBA title six times with the Bulls around Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen and later with the Los Angeles Lakers around Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant three times.

Tex Winter (2009)

Winter received the 1998 John Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for life's work , and in 2010 the NBA's Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award . Phil Jackson , who won eleven NBA titles with Winters “Triangle Offense”, described Winter as a role model and “basketball god”. In 2011 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Winter was married to Nancy and had three sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (AP agency report): Tex Winter, innovative basketball coach, dead at 96. On: The Associated Press website; New York, NY October 11, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018 (in English).
  2. ↑ (AP agency report): Tex Winter, innovative basketball coach, dead at 96. On: Star Tribune website; Minneapolis, MN, October 11, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kerry Eggers: Basketball finds a lion in winter. ( Memento of June 23, 2012 on Internet Archive ) First of two pages archived in 2012 by: The Portland Tribune website; Portland, OR, April 15, 2005; last revised October 30, 2009 (in English).
  4. ↑ NN: Phil Jackson - Related Biography: Basketball Coach Tex Winter. On: Net Industries website; Las Vegas, NV, undated. Retrieved October 12, 2018 (in English).
  5. ^ NN: K-State Mourns the Passing of Fred “Tex” Winter. On: K-State Sports website; Manhattan, KS, October 10, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Tex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Morice Fredrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington Park , California
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2018
Place of death Manhattan , Kansas