Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $87M
- Total assets
- 53
- Participants
- 90th
- Percentile by assets
- $1.6M
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by National Basketball Association · New Jersey · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
What the 2023 filing shows
Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers holds $87M for 53 participants - about $1.6M per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, down 1.1% over the 2023 plan year.
- $87M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 53
- covered participants
- 90th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $1.6M
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $866K for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers
Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by National Basketball Association, headquartered in New Jersey. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $87M in total end-of-year assets and covers 53 participants across the Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 135582586, and the plan has been effective since 1977-06-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $87M at the beginning of 2023 to $87M at year-end - down 1.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $86M, with reported net income of -$866K driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 3 plan years National Basketball Association has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.1B to $760M, a decline of 29.6%, while reported participants moved from 2,129 to 1,831 (-14.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $1.3B; the softest was 2024 at $760M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.1B in assets across 3 plans covering 2,129 participants; 2023 - $1.3B in assets across 3 plans covering 2,344 participants; 2024 - $760M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,831 participants.
By assets, Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers outranks 90% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 0.9x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.
Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.
How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.
Financial Summary (2023)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $87M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $87M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $86M |
| Net Income | -$866K |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 135582586 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1977-06-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (National Basketball Association)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 2,129 | $1.1B |
| 2023 | 3 | 2,344 | $1.3B |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,831 | $760M |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in New Jersey
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Retirement Plan of Johnson and Johnson $21.2B · 37,749
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers's numbers.
- By total assets, Nba Pension Plan for Coaches, Assistant Coaches and Trainers ranks in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in New Jersey. Compare plans
- National Basketball Association's sponsor-wide assets have declined 29.6% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Arts, Entertainment & Recreation plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2023.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 135582586.
Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.
Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-15.