Alvin Harris Gentry (conceived November 5, 1954) is an American b-ball mentor. A previous school b-ball player, Gentry has driven five diverse NBA groups. He filled in as a break lead trainer for the Miami Heat toward the finish of the 1994–95 season, and later instructed the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Pelicans. 

Early and individual life 

Gentry was conceived in Shelby, North Carolina, where he grew up and went to Shelby High School. His first cousin is previous NC State and NBA star David Thompson. 

Gentry played school b-ball at Appalachian State University, where he was a point monitor under Press Maravich and Bobby Cremins. In 1978 he went through one year as an alumni right hand at the University of Colorado.

Following one year working in personal business, he came back to the seat when he got his first full-time university aide training work at Baylor University under Jim Haller in 1980.

Following one year at Baylor, Gentry came back to the University of Colorado as an associate mentor from 1981-1986 under Tom Apke. From 1986-1989, Gentry filled in as a colleague at the University of Kansas under Larry Brown, where they won the 1988 NCAA National Championship. 

Gentry has been hitched twice and is the dad of two children and one little girl. 

Instructing vocation 

Early vocation 

In 1989, Gentry started his NBA instructing vocation as an associate mentor for the San Antonio Spurs under Larry Brown. 

Gentry joined Gregg Popovich, R. C. Buford, and Ed Manning as a major aspect of Larry Brown's associate training staff for the Spurs when Brown left Kansas before the 1988–89 NBA season. After two seasons in San Antonio, Gentry left to turn into a right hand for the Los Angeles Clippers starting in the 1990–91 season. 

Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons 

For the 1991 season Gentry joined Kevin Loughery's staff as an associate mentor for the Miami Heat, where he trained for three seasons. He at that point moved to Detroit following the 1994–95 season where he filled in as an aide for over two seasons before being named lead trainer late in the 1997–98 season. 

LA Clippers 

Nobility came back to San Antonio as head right-hand mentor following the 1999–2000 season, where he was brought together with previous co-partners Gregg Popovich (the Spurs lead trainer and VP of ball activities) and R .C. Buford (the Spurs' head supervisor).

However, that task was brief, as Gentry acknowledged the head instructing position for the Los Angeles Clippers weeks in the wake of taking the San Antonio work.

He drove the Clippers to 31 successes and 39 successes separately in his initial two seasons as their lead trainer. Those seasons were set apart by the strong play of youthful players, for example, Darius Miles, Elton Brand, and Lamar Odom.

In Gentry's third season, be that as it may, the group relapsed (in spite of the expansion of Andre Miller), and Gentry was terminated in February 2003. 

Phoenix Suns 

Gentry later turned into an associate mentor for the Phoenix Suns for a long time, serving under lead trainers Mike D'Antoni and Terry Porter.

At the point when Porter was terminated in his first season as lead trainer, Alvin Gentry took over on a between time premise. He was named Suns' lead trainer for the 2009-2010 season. Gentry's record in his first year as a lead trainer during the 2009-2010 season was 54 successes, a lifelong high, against 28 misfortunes.

The Suns progressed toward the Western Conference Finals and lost to the Lakers in six games. He turned into the fifth lead trainer in establishment history to lead his group to a Western Conference Finals compartment in his first full season.

Gentry made sense of how to mix the two styles of D'Antoni and Porter. Contrasting his instructing with D'Antoni, Gentry said "We are not seven seconds or less. We're 12 seconds or under. We don't take a great deal of extremely speedy shots. We don't play with that very quick pace. We play with a mood."

Spurs lead trainer Gregg Popovich commented "One thing about Phoenix is they are preferred protectively over before. They're substantially more dynamic, considerably more dedicated, they've assumed the liability to a significantly more huge degree than any time in recent memory." 

On January 18, 2013, Gentry commonly went separate ways with the Phoenix Suns. In July 2013, he came back to the Clippers association, taking the title of partner lead trainer, making him Doc Rivers' lead collaborator. 

After one season with the Clippers, Gentry marked a three-year contract as partner lead trainer for the Golden State Warriors, working under new lead trainer Steve Kerr. 

New Orleans Pelicans 

On May 18, 2015, the New Orleans Pelicans were allowed consent by the Warriors to talk with Gentry for their head training opportunity.

He marked with the Pelicans on May 30, preceding the beginning of the 2015 NBA Finals, however, was to stay with Golden State until the arrangement was finished. The Warriors won the NBA Championship after they crushed the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games to give Gentry his first NBA title. 

On August 15, 2020, after a disillusioning presentation in the NBA Bubble following the resumption of the 2019–20 season, Gentry was terminated as the Pelicans' mentor. He was 175–225 out of five seasons.

Regularly tormented by wounds, New Orleans utilized 140 beginning setups in that range, 11 more than the following nearest group in the association.

Gentry left the Pelicans with the second-most successes in establishment history behind Byron Scott and was their solitary mentor with a triumphant post-season record (5–4).