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,

Don Nelson served as an NBA head coach for 31 seasons, becoming 1 of the most influential coaches in basketball history along the way.

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.