When former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Brian Grant teamed up before the 2003-04 NBA season, they were set to be coached by a basketball legend: Hall of Famer Rudy Tomjanovich. While ...

Former Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich was officially elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday. Tomjanovich was named a Hall-of-Fame finalist on Feb. 14 along with ...

Rudy Tomjanovich, a basketball icon, received the 2024 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Basketball Coaches Association, recognizing his outstanding career and contributions to ...

It's been 30 years since Rudy Tomjanovich brought the heart of a champion to the Houston Rockets organization, winning the franchise's first title. Fast forward to the present day, Tomjanovich is ...

In the telling and retelling of the tales that built champions 30 years ago, Rudy Tomjanovich’s seemingly outlandish but largely forgotten coaching decision is rarely mentioned. That is typical. His ...

Calvin Murphy isn’t the only Houston Rockets legend who is excited about the impending arrival of All-Star forward Kevin Durant. Rudy Tomjanovich, a playing teammate of Murphy and subsequently the ...

BOSTON — Rudy Tomjanovich was moved to tears by his latest award, only because he had no idea it was coming or that he was even under consideration. The Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and two-time ...

DENVER — A year ago, it was Rudy Tomjanovich’s team, his town to take over, his position near the top of the Laker flow chart hammered home daily as fans stopped the coach during his Manhattan Beach ...

NEW YORK -- Golden State's Steve Kerr has won the Rudy Tomjanovich Award, given by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to a coach who best combines excellence on the court with cooperation ...

Tomjanovich, now 75 and nearly 20 years removed from his last coaching gig, used Sunday’s press conference at TD Garden to stump for former Rockets guard and current Celtics assistant coach Sam ...

BOSTON – When Rick Carlisle telephoned Rudy Tomjanovich to inform him that he had won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, Tomjanovich was as surprised as anyone. “The great thing about this ...