Hill played basketball and baseball collegiately at Bowling Green State University and was also a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

[2] He was appointed to a similar capacity at the University of Kansas by Ted Owens in 1979 and stayed for six years until 1985, the last two with Larry Brown.

After being fired by the Pacers and being an assistant coach for the Orlando Magic for a season, Hill piloted the San Antonio Spurs to an NBA-best 62 wins in 1994–95 before losing to the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals.

He was fired over the phone as Sonics head coach on April 24, 2007,[citation needed] after their penultimate season in Seattle, after which they became the Oklahoma City Thunder.

On February 1, 2016, it was announced that Hill would be the Phoenix Suns' newest assistant head coach for the rest of the 2015–16 season[citation needed] after it was announced that the Suns would fire Jeff Hornacek as their head coach and replace him for the season with his former player under the Seattle SuperSonics, Earl Watson.

[citation needed] During the summer of 2011, Hill was invited by Nike to help the Taiwan men's basketball team as a consultant.

Most recently, Hill was the assistant coach of the Ukrainian national team at the 2014 FIBA World Cup and the 2015 Euroleague.

The oldest, Cameron, is currently the head women's basketball coach at Trinity University in San Antonio and is the owner of CHB, specializing in player development and team training.

His second son, Chris, is the head basketball coach at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, and his youngest, Casey, is an assistant for the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans.