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Oklahoma City Thunder Head Coach Mark Daigneault Contract, Salary, Net Worth, Coaching Record, and Wife
Mat Issa is based in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Yes, he spells his name with one "t." He's obsessed with NBA history, so much so that he's dedicated nearly two years of research to his two mini-series', "Blazing the Trail" and "The Quest for the Best." Right now, Mat goes to law school and writes about the NBA for The Analyst, Forbes, and of course, Basketball Insiders. His work has also been featured in ESPN, SB Nation, FanSided, Basketball News, ONE37pm, and Raptors Republic. Also, he's a lifelong Spartans fan. Go Green!
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After enduring years of rebuilding as the leading man of Sam Presti’s hunt for draft capital, Head Coach Mark Daigneault is finally getting the chance to coach some winning basketball. As it stands, the Oklahoma City Thunder are second in the Western Conference, and they have the statistical indicators of a team that looks like a title contender.
But how much does Daigneault make? In this post, we discuss Daigneault’s salary, his net worth, his coaching record, and more.
Mark Daigneault Contract And Salary
Daigneault has been Oklahoma City’s head coach since 2020. After four seasons with the team, it was announced that the Thunder and Daigneault agreed to a multi-year extension. Unfortunately, the terms of the contract (both length and salary) were not publicly disclosed. With that said, we can estimate Daigneault’s salary based on what other NBA coaches are getting paid.
We know that Daigneault is making less than 7.25 million dollars per year, as we know the salaries of the top-five highest-paid coaches in the NBA in 2023-24, and Rick Carlisle (the fifth-highest-paid coach that year) makes that amount.
Daigneault likely makes somewhere in the ballpark of four to five million dollars a year. Joe Mazzulla, another coach with no NBA playing experience who was signed to an extension after impressing early on in his tenure as head coach, makes about 4.7 million dollars annually. Daigneault shouldn’t be too far off that mark.
Mark Daigneault Net Worth
Daigneault’s net worth is estimated to be around three million dollars (as of 2023). While we don’t know for certain, we can assume that most of Jenkins’ wealth has been amassed from his time as a coach.
Daigneault joined the Thunder organization as an assistant in 2014 as an assistant on the team’s G-League affiliate. He got called up to the big leagues in 2019 to be an assistant coach on Billy Donovan’s staff. He took over for Donovan as the head coach in 2020. Before that, Daigneault spent seven years (from 2007 to 2014) as an assistant basketball coach at the college level.
Mark Daigneault Head Coaching Record
As we mentioned, most of Daigneault’s tenure with the Thunder has been during a rebuild phase. And as a result, his overall coaching record suffers because of it. In 318 career games, Daigneault holds a 143-175 record (win percentage of 45%). Those marks put him 125th all-time in wins and 156th all-time in win percentage.
At this time, Daigneault has only coached in 10 playoff games, going 6-4 (60%) in those contests.
Mark Daigneault Wife
Daigneault is married to Ashley Kerr. Kerr is a women’s gymnastics assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma. She has been there since 2020. The couple has one kid together – a two-year-old boy named Alex John Daigneault.
