The NBA officially announced today that Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson won the 2024-25 season "Red Auerbach Trophy" and became the NBA Coach of the Year this season.

This is the first time Atkinson has won this honor in his coaching career, and he is also the third coach in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the award. The first two were Bill Fitch (1975-76) and Mike Brown (2008-09).

This season is Atkinson's first season as the Cleveland Cavaliers coach. Under his leadership, the team has a record of 64 wins and 18 losses, setting the second best record in team history and winning the first playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. This achievement also puts him in the fourth place in the NBA history in terms of the number of wins in the first season of coaching a new team.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have shown amazing stability this season, becoming the second team in NBA history to achieve 12 or more consecutive wins three times in a single season after the Dallas Mavericks in 2006-07. The team won 15 consecutive games at the beginning of the season, tying the second best start in league history, and even played a 16-game winning streak from February to March, the longest in team history.

Under Atkinson's coaching, the Cleveland Cavaliers also broke many team records: average points per game of 121.9 points (first in the league), net score of 9.5 points, 30 away wins, and 1,303 three-pointers made. Their performance on both offense and defense was among the best in the league.

With his outstanding record and coaching performance, Atkinson won the NBA Eastern Conference Coach of the Month twice and served as the head coach of the All-Star Game for the first time. His success was also recognized by a jury of 100 media around the world, and finally the highest vote-getter of this season was counted by Ernst & Young, which can be said to be well-deserved.