After coaching in the high school and minor-league ranks for the early postwar years, Dr. Jack Ramsay became head coach at his alma mater, Saint Joseph's College, in 1955. In his first season, Ramsay would lead the Hawks to their first Big 5 crown and their first-ever postseason berth in the NIT. He would remain there through 1966, leading the Hawks to six more Big 5 crowns and ten postseason appearances in all.
Immediately after leaving Saint Joseph's, he was hired as general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, who won an NBA title in his first season in the front office. In 1968, he left the front office to take over as head coach of the Sixers. In his four seasons as coach, he led the team to three playoff appearances. After the 1971-72 season, he took the head coaching job with the Buffalo Braves.
His next coaching stop in the NBA was his most famous, with the Portland Trail Blazers. When he arrived in 1976, the Blazers had not made the playoffs or compiled a winning record in their six-year history. However, he arrived just as a young team, led by Bill Walton, started to gel, and also benefited from the ABA dispersal draft in the 1976 off-season, in which the Blazers picked up hard-nosed power forward Maurice Lucas.
In his first season in Portland (77), Ramsay led the Blazers to their only NBA title to date. In his second season, the Blazers were 50-10 after 60 games and favored to repeat as champions before Walton, in the midst of a season in which he would be named the league MVP, broke his foot, the first of the numerous major injuries that radically shortened his career. Ramsay continued to coach the Blazers until 1986 with general success, although he was never able to approach the level of his first seasons there. He was also a coach in the 1978 All-Star Game. Ramsay coached the Indiana Pacers for the 1986-87 season before retiring. At that time, he was second on the all-time wins list for NBA coaches, trailing Red Auerbach.
Ramsay later spent nine years as a television color commentator for the Miami Heat, and continues to do commentary for ESPN on TV and radio.
Ramsay was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on May 11, 1992.
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