On Sunday, former Golden State Warriors head coach Don Nelson was honored with an esteemed award from the NBA community. At Game 2 of the NBA Finals, Nelson was presented with the 2025 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nelson, 85, retired in 2010 as the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 1,335 wins. The first 540 of those victories came during his tenure coaching the Bucks. Nelson, a three-time coach of the year,

To be fair, Daigneault was 25 years old, in his third year as an assistant at Holy Cross, when Nelson coached his final NBA season with Golden State in 2010. But that doesn’t mean the OKC leader wasn’t aware of Nelson’s lasting legacy across the league 15 years after his retirement.