By Mike Monroe, Staff Writers | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-02-17 13:58:23
1978年比赛中的圣安东尼奥马刺队主教练道格·莫耶。
前马刺主教练道格·莫耶 (Doug Moe) 酷爱大笑——通常是自嘲。
这一特质在他生活的方方面面都让他受益匪浅。
对莫耶来说，真正重要的是他的家人和朋友，只要没人把事情搞得太严肃。
这意味着他的妻子简·莫耶 (Jane Moe) 学会了以惊人的优雅来容忍莫耶在50多年前为她起的昵称：“大简 (Big Jane)”。换做其他人都会形容简身材娇小，但那些只听过她丈夫描述的人往往会产生截然不同的想象。
其他人则必须忍受莫耶给他们起的那些更具针对性的绰号。但对莫耶来说，每一次带刺的嘲讽都伴随着笑声与爱。
他能靠他热爱的篮球运动过上富足的生活，这大概是莫耶最开怀大笑的事。
这位特立独行的教练曾在1979年带领马刺队闯入NBA总决赛的边缘，并在队史上执教场次数（377场）和胜场数（177场）仅次于格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich)，他在周二因病去世。
莫耶在执教马刺期间从未经历过胜率低于五成的赛季，享年87岁。据一名护理人员透露，他在圣安东尼奥的家中去世，简和其他家人陪伴在侧。
曾在马刺作为球员效力于莫耶麾下的前丹佛掘金主教练乔治·卡尔 (George Karl) 在社交媒体上表达了哀悼。莫耶的教练生涯终点是在2008年担任卡尔的助理教练。
“道格·莫耶是我的老大哥。今天我很悲伤。我会想念他的，”卡尔在X平台上发帖称。“永远爱你，道格。”
作为篮球界最具竞争力的教练之一，这位布鲁克林土生土长的教练也是最受人爱戴的人物之一。
“当你想到道格·莫耶时，你会想到这个星球上最真实的人之一，”NBA历史胜场数最多的教练波波维奇说道。“无论在场上、场下、高尔夫球场还是社交场合，你看到的永远是那个道格·莫耶，分秒如一。他总是那么风趣、诚实，我们中没多少人能说自己也能做到那样。”
前马刺球星詹姆斯·赛拉斯 (James Silas) 称莫耶是个“了不起的家伙”。
“他是个精神矍铄、相处起来很有趣的人，一个好家长，”赛拉斯说。“我对他没有任何负面评价。他对我意义重大。”
2004年，前马刺主教练道格·莫耶与妻子简在圣安东尼奥的家中。
莫耶在15个NBA主教练赛季中取得了628胜529负的战绩。从1976-77赛季（马刺在NBA与美国篮球协会合并后的首个赛季）开始，他执教了马刺三个完整赛季，以及1979-80赛季的前66场比赛。他最终留下了177胜135负（胜率56.7%）的常规赛战绩和9胜13负的季后赛战绩。
1979年，马刺在东部决赛中一度3-1领先，但最终被华盛顿子弹队翻盘。1980年，在球队开局取得33胜33负后，马刺大老板安杰洛·德罗索斯 (Angelo Drossos) 解雇了他，这一举动令球迷们大为不满。
尽管结局仓促，但莫耶在圣安东尼奥的执教时期仍被视为队史上最富娱乐性和自由奔放的阶段之一。他率领的“跑轰”球队由未来的名人堂成员“冰人”乔治·格文 (George “The Iceman” Gervin)、赛拉斯和拉里·凯农 (Larry Kenon) 领衔，使半球体育馆 (HemisFair Arena) 成为20世纪70年代整个南德克萨斯州最令人向往的胜地。
“他想要跑轰，”赛拉斯说。“看看合并前NBA的打法，那是一种流动性很强的比赛——慢慢推进并呼叫战术。道格只会叫‘传切配合’——传球后移动，传球后掩护。我们没有死板的战术。这很有趣。他让我做我自己。我真的很享受和他共度的时光。他是一位球员型教练，而这正是球员梦寐以求的——一个让你尽情发挥的教练。”
莫耶在圣安东尼奥被解雇后很快东山再起，成为丹佛掘金队的主教练。他在那里执教了九年多，取得了398场常规赛胜利，并在1985年闯入西部决赛。他还曾在1992-93赛季的前56场比赛中执教费城76人队。
1987-88赛季，莫耶率领掘金队取得54胜并闯入西部半决赛，荣膺NBA年度最佳教练。而在此前一个赛季，他们仅获得37胜并在季后赛首轮出局。
莫耶于2015年入选圣安东尼奥体育名人堂。2004年，掘金队在百事中心球馆（Pepsi Center）上空悬挂了一面印有他名字和“398”字样的旗帜以示致敬。
莫耶和妻子在执教马刺期间爱上了圣安东尼奥。即使在被德罗索斯解雇后，他们也在这座“阿拉莫城”保留了房产，在他丹佛执教的赛季间隙都会回到这里。
“我对（执教马刺的）记忆全是美好的，因为我在这里一直拥有优秀的团队，”莫耶在2005年马刺与掘金的季后赛系列赛期间回忆道。“他们总是很有竞争力，我们曾有过一些伟大的机会。”
“不过我担心，我最深刻的记忆仍然是（在分区决赛中）输给华盛顿的失望感。”
许多资深的马刺球迷至今仍坚信NBA“偷走”了第七场比赛的胜利，因为联盟不希望一支来自ABA的球队在1976-77年合并后这么快就有机会赢得总冠军。
“你确实可以说服我接受这个观点，”莫耶在2005年笑着说道。
在转行做教练之前，莫耶曾是一名得分能力极强的6英尺5英寸小前锋。在传奇教练弗兰克·麦奎尔 (Frank McGuire) 招募他加入北卡罗来纳大学后，他在大四赛季场均能为焦油脚跟队贡献20.4分。
1960-61大学赛季结束后，莫耶的NBA梦想因被错误地卷入一场操纵比分丑闻而破灭。尽管后来被证明清白，但他仍被联盟放逐。不过他在ABA找到了归宿，在五年的职业生涯中三次入选全明星，其中包括1967-68首个赛季，作为新奥尔良海盗队的一名新秀，他以1894分领跑全联盟。
莫耶在新秀赛季场均贡献24.2分和10.2个篮板，在ABA MVP投票中仅次于匹兹堡吹笛手队的康尼·霍金斯 (Connie Hawkins)，位列第二。
一年后，他场均贡献19.0分，帮助奥克兰橡树队夺得ABA总冠军。
他还曾效力于卡罗来纳美洲狮队和弗吉尼亚绅士队。在他的职业生涯中，他场均得到16.3分、6.8个篮板和3.2次助攻。
当膝伤迫使他在1971-72赛季后退役时，莫耶在好友兼布鲁克林老乡拉里·布朗 (Larry Brown) 手下担任美洲狮队的人员总监和助理教练。1974年，当ABA的丹佛火箭队被出售并更名为丹佛掘金队时，莫耶和布朗从卡罗来纳搬到了丹佛。
1975年，当掘金队成为并入NBA的四支ABA球队之一时，莫耶协助布朗带领球队夺得了中西赛区冠军。1976年夏天，德罗索斯聘请莫耶担任马刺队主教练。
莫耶的教练门生包括两届NBA年度最佳教练迈克·德安东尼 (Mike D’Antoni)，他曾在1976-77赛季在莫耶麾下的马刺队打过两场比赛。
“他是少数能将好人和优秀教练这两个身份完美结合的人之一，”德安东尼说。“和他在一起很有趣；接受他的指导也很有趣。而且他是个赢家。”
莫耶也以不修边幅著称，他曾在一个赛季中只穿两件运动外套：主场穿蓝色，客场穿棕色。他的领带结通常在第一节还没结束，就会在他对裁判或球员咆哮时被他扯松。
当莫耶出现在宣布他从丹佛下课的新闻发布会上时，尽管他从未有过负场赛季且从未缺席过季后赛，但他却穿着一件花哨的夏威夷衬衫。他以尊严和惯有的幽默回答了记者的提问，但当他开始向许多眼含泪水的掘金员工告别时，莫耶自己也流下了眼泪。
“大简”带着一瓶香槟和两个杯子来救场，并指出在1980年，他们也曾用香槟为他被马刺解雇而干杯。
全场哄堂大笑。
道格·莫耶的笑声最响亮。
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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Doug Moe, who coached Spurs to brink of NBA finals in 1979, dies at 87
San Antonio Spurs coach Doug Moe in a 1978 game.
Former Spurs coach Doug Moe loved to laugh — often at his own expense.
It was a trait that served him well in all aspects of his life.
What truly mattered to Moe were his family and friends, as long as nobody got too serious about anything.
That meant that his wife, Jane, learned to tolerate with remarkable grace the pet name Moe created for her more than 50 years ago: “Big Jane.” Anyone else would describe Jane Moe as petite, but those who knew her only by her husband’s description often imagined otherwise.
Others had to tolerate nicknames Moe gave them that were decidedly more pointed. But with Moe, every barb was delivered with laughter and love.
That he made a comfortable living from basketball, the sport he loved, likely gave Moe the biggest laugh of all.
The iconoclastic coach who guided the Spurs to the brink of the NBA Finals in 1979 and ranks only behind Gregg Popovich in franchise history in games coached (377) and wins (177), died Tuesday after an illness.
Moe, who never had a losing season while coaching the Spurs, was 87. He died at his home in San Antonio surrounded by Jane and other family members, a caregiver said.
Former Denver Nuggets coach George Karl, who played for Moe as a Spur, posted a tribute to Moe on social media. Moe finished his coaching career as an assistant under Karl in 2008.
“Doug Moe was my big brother. I am sad today. I will miss him,” Karl posted on X. “Love you forever Doug.”
One of basketball’s most competitive coaches, the Brooklyn native also ranks as one of its most endearing characters.
“When you think about Doe Moe, you think of one of the most genuine people on the planet,” said Popovich, the NBA’s all-time winningest coach. “Exactly what you got — on the court, off the court, on the golf course, out socially — was Doug Moe, every minute of the day. It was always fun, it was always honest and not many of us can say that’s the way we are.”
Former Spurs star James Silas called Moe a “heck of a guy.”
“He was a good-spirit guy, fun to be around, a good family man,” Silas said. “There’s nothing I could say bad about him. He meant a lot to me.”
Former Spurs coach Doug Moe and his wife, Jane, at their San Antonio home in 2004.
Moe compiled a 628-529 record in 15 seasons as an NBA head coach. Beginning in 1976-77, the Spurs’ first season in the NBA after the league merged with the American Basketball Association, he coached the Spurs for three full seasons, plus the first 66 games of the 1979-80 season. He finished with a 177-135 regular season record (.567) and a 9-13 postseason mark.
In 1979, the Spurs blew a 3-1 series lead to lose to the Washington Bullets in the Eastern Conference Finals. With the team off to a 33-33 start in 1980, Spurs majority owner Angelo Drossos fired him in a move that upset fans.
Despite that abrupt finish, Moe’s stint in San Antonio ranks as one of the most entertaining, free-wheeling periods in franchise history. His run-and-gun teams led by future Hall of Fame George “The Iceman” Gervin, Silas and Larry Kenon made HemisFair Arena a coveted destination for all of South Texas in the 1970s.
“He wanted to run and gun,” Silas said. “When you look at how the NBA was playing before we merged, it was kind of a flow game — walk it down and call plays. All Doug would call was the passing game — pass and move, pass and pick. We had no plays. It was fun. He let me be me. I really enjoyed my time with him. He was a player’s coach and that’s all a player wants – a coach who will let you play.”
Moe bounced back from his firing in San Antonio to become head coach in Denver, where he had a nine-years-plus run with the Nuggets, a tenure that produced 398 regular season victories and a trip to the Western Conference finals in 1985. He also coached the Philadelphia 76ers through the first 56 games of the 1992-93 season.
Moe was the 1987-88 NBA Coach of the Year after he led the Nuggets to 54 wins and the Western Conference semifinals. They had won just 37 games and lost in the first round of the playoffs the season before.
Moe was inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. The Nuggets honored him in 2004 by hanging a banner with his name and “398” from the rafters at The Pepsi Center.
Moe and his wife fell in love with San Antonio during his time guiding the Spurs. They kept a home in the Alamo City even after Drossos fired him, returning there between seasons when he coached in Denver.
“My memories (of coaching the Spurs) are all good because I always had good teams here,” Moe recalled during the Spurs-Nuggets playoff series in 2005. "They were always competitive and we had some great opportunities.
“I’m afraid, though, that my strongest memory is still the disappointment of losing to Washington (in the conference finals).”
Many longtime Spurs fans are still convinced the NBA “stole” Game 7 from the Spurs because it didn’t want a team from the ABA to have a shot at winning a league title so soon after the 1976-77 merger.
“You could talk me into that,” Moe said with a laugh in 2005.
Before Moe moved into coaching, he was a high-scoring 6-foot-5 small forward. After legendary coach Frank McGuire recruited him to play at North Carolina, he averaged 20.4 points as a senior for the Tar Heels.
Moe’s dream of playing in the NBA ended after the 1960-61 college season when he was falsely implicated in a point-shaving scandal. Though later exonerated, he was banished from the league. But he found a home in the ABA, where he was a three-time All-Star during his five-year career, which included leading the league in points (1,894) in its inaugural season of 1967-68 as a rookie with the New Orleans Buccaneers.
Moe averaged 24.2 points and 10.2 rebounds as a rookie to finish second in the voting for ABA MVP behind the Pittsburgh Pipers’ Connie Hawkins.
A year later, he helped the Oakland Oaks win the ABA title by averaging 19.0 points per game.
He also played for the Carolina Cougars and the Virginia Squires. For his career, he averaged 16.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists.
When knee injuries forced him to retire after the 1971-72 season, Moe became the player personnel director and assistant coach of the Cougars under close friend and fellow Brooklyn native Larry Brown. Moe and Brown moved from Carolina to Denver in 1974 when the ABA’s Denver Rockets were sold and became the Denver Nuggets.
When the Nuggets became one of the four ABA teams merged into the NBA in 1975, Moe helped Brown coach them to the Midwest Division title. In summer 1976, Drossos hired Moe to coach the Spurs.
Moe’s coaching tree includes Mike D’Antoni, a two-time NBA Coach of the Year who played for Moe with the Spurs for two games in 1976-77.
“He was one of the few people who combined being a good person and being a good coach, and put them together,” D’Antoni said. “It was fun to be with him; fun to be coached by him. And he was a winner.”
Moe was also known for being a notoriously bad dresser who went through one season with just two sports coats: A blue one for home games and a brown one for the road. The knots in his ties never lasted long into the first quarter before he yanked them loose during a tirade at a referee or one of his players.
Moe showed up at the news conference announcing his firing from Denver despite never having a losing season and never missing the playoffs wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt. He answered questions from reporters with dignity and his customary humor, but when he began saying goodbye to Nuggets staffers, many of whom were teary-eyed, Moe broke down in tears himself.
“Big Jane” came to his rescue with a bottle of champagne and two glasses, pointing out that in 1980 they had also toasted his firing from the Spurs with champagne.
The room broke into laughter.
Doug Moe’s laugh was the loudest.
By Mike Monroe, Staff Writers, via San Antonio Express-News