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Suns playing, coaching icon Westphal dead at 70
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Paul Westphal, who won a National Basketball Association title with Boston and became an icon over 14 seasons as a player and coach for the Phoenix Suns, has died. He was 70.
“Westy will not be immortalized for just playing basketball. He will be remembered for how he lived his life, and how he treated others,” the Suns said in a statement. Westphal was taken 10th overall by Boston in the 1972 NBA Draft and won an NBA crown with the Celtics in 1974 but became a star in Phoenix after being traded to the Suns in 1975. Westphal, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019, helped the Suns reach the 1976 NBA Finals as a guard, losing to Boston, and coached the Suns into the 1993 NBA Finals, where they lost to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. Westphal, who also played for Seattle and New York, had his jersey No. 44 retired by the Suns, ended with a final season at Phoenix in 1983-84. As a coach, Westphal spent five years as an assistant with Phoenix and more than three seasons as head coach. He spent slightly more than two seasons each as head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics and Sacramento Kings. Westphal finished his career as an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets from 2014-2016.
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