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Nicknamed the “Destroyer“,[2][3] he played the point guard position and spent his entire 11 seasons (1960\u20131971) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the team, joining it when it was still based in Philadelphia and following it to the Bay Area in 1962. He took over as player-coach for the last season of his career, and remained as head coach until 1983 (save for 21 games in 1980).Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]Playing career[edit]Coaching career[edit]Personal life[edit]Head coaching record[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]He is a graduate of Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey and North Carolina A&T State University.[4] He has a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and History along with a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction.[5] He intended to return to Newark and coach at his local junior high school when he was drafted by the Warriors. He initially declined before accepting and going to training camp.[6]Playing career[edit]  Attles with the San Francisco Warriors in 1970Attles joined the then-Philadelphia Warriors in 1960. On March 2, 1962, he was the team’s second-leading scorer with 17 points on the night Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points. There is a probably apocryphal story to the effect that one of the sportswriters covering the game began his filing with the lede “HERSHEY, Pa. \u2013 Wilt Chamberlain and Al Attles combined for 117 points last night as the Philadelphia Warriors defeated the New York Knicks 169\u2013147.” Attles moved with the team to the Bay Area at the end of the 1962 season, playing until 1971. Attles was known as “The Destroyer” due to his defensive specialities along with once punching a player in the jaw.[7] He was a role player on the 1964 Warriors team (with Wilt Chamberlain and Guy Rodgers) that made the NBA Finals and eventually lost the championship series to the Boston Celtics, four games to one. Attles also played on the Warriors’ 1967 team that lost to Chamberlain’s 68\u201313 Philadelphia 76ers in an evenly matched, six-game championship series.Coaching career[edit]Attles became an assistant coach in 1968, while still a player. He was named player-coach of the Warriors midway through the 1969\u201370 season, succeeding George Lee. He was one of the first African-American head coaches in the NBA. He retired as a player after the 1970\u201371 season, and stayed on as head coach, guiding the Rick Barry-led Warriors to the 1975 NBA championship over the heavily favored Washington Bullets, making him the second African-American coach to win an NBA title (the first was Bill Russell). Attles’s team tried to repeat the following season, but they lost to the Phoenix Suns in the Conference Finals in seven games. The team would make the playoffs only once more for the remainder of his tenure as coach. Attles was replaced by Johnny Bach for the last 21 games of the 1979\u201380 NBA season (a season in which the Warriors finished tied for last place), though he returned for the next season (Bach would become Attles’s permanent successor after 1983). Attles coached the Warriors until 1983, compiling a 557\u2013518 regular-season record (588\u2013548 including playoffs) with six playoff appearances in 14 seasons. During the 1983\u201384 NBA season, Attles worked as the Warriors’ general manager. He is the longest-serving coach in Warriors history, and also has the most wins in franchise history.  In 2014, Attles was the recipient of the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award\u2014an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to an individual who has contributed significantly to the sport of basketball, the award is the highest and the most prestigious honor presented by the Basketball Hall of Fame other than enshrinement.Attles’s number 16 is retired by the Warriors and he attends every Warriors home game. He also serves as a team ambassador.[8] On February 7, 2015, Attles’s number 22 was retired by North Carolina A&T, the first ever retired by the team.[9] He was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.Attles has been on the Warriors’ payroll in one capacity or another for 62 years, the longest uninterrupted streak of any person for one team. He is one of the last living members of the franchise who dates to their time in Philadelphia.On April 6, 2019, Attles was chosen as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.[10]Personal life[edit]Attles is Catholic.[11]Head coaching record[edit]LegendRegular seasonGGames coachedWGames wonLGames lostW\u2013L\u00a0%Win\u2013loss\u00a0%PlayoffsPGPlayoff gamesPWPlayoff winsPLPlayoff lossesPW\u2013L\u00a0%Playoff win\u2013loss\u00a0%References[edit]^ “Al Attles, Hubie Brown recipients of 2017 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award”. nba.com. Retrieved May 25, 2021.^ “Al Attles”. Basketball-Reference.com. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2020.^ Barry McDermott (April 21, 1975). “Attles Battles No Longer”. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved May 30, 2020.^ Johnson, Roy S. “ATTLES COACHES IN A PERSONAL WAY”, The New York Times, January 28, 1982. Retrieved November 22, 2007.^ “Alvin Attles”. NBA.com.^ “50 years on, reluctant Warrior al Attles is the team’s mainstay”. January 11, 2010.^ Rhoden, William C. (May 27, 2015). “Al Attles, a Warrior for Life, is a Bridge to a Lone Bay Area Title”. The New York Times.^ “Warriors staff directory”. NBA.com. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2022.^ “North Carolina A&T to Retire Alvin Attles’ Number”. January 28, 2015.^ Attles III, Alvin (September 6, 2019). “On the occasion of his father’s induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, a son pays tribute”. Bay Area News Group.^ “Smallwood Praises Al Attles”. The A&T Register. September 19, 1975. 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