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Hahn: Mike Brown is 'absolutely' the close prosecute for Knicks (0:59)
Alan Hahn explains wherefore Mike Brown is the champion caput coaching enactment to pb the Knicks to an NBA Finals appearance. (0:59)
ESPN News Services
Jul 7, 2025, 05:36 PM ET
NEW YORK -- The New York Knicks hired Mike Brown connected Monday, turning to the two-time NBA Coach of the Year aft firing Tom Thibodeau.
"After a thorough and extended hunt process, we are pleased to denote Mike Brown arsenic the caput manager of the New York Knicks," Knicks president Leon Rose said successful a statement. "Mike has coached connected the biggest stages successful our athletics and brings title pedigree to our organization.
"His acquisition starring the seat during the NBA Finals, winning 4 titles arsenic an adjunct coach, and his quality to turn and make players volition each assistance america arsenic we purpose to bring a title to New York for our fans."
The Knicks offered the occupation to Brown past week and announced Monday that helium would beryllium taking implicit the squad that reached the Eastern Conference finals past play for the archetypal clip successful 25 years.
They decided to occurrence Thibodeau contempt that and yet picked Brown, who wasn't retired of enactment agelong aft getting fired by the Sacramento Kings during past season.
Brown had led the Kings to the postseason successful 2023 -- their archetypal quality since 2006 -- and was voted the Coach of the Year. He besides won the grant successful Cleveland, wherever helium led the Cavaliers to the 2007 NBA Finals.
He was a four-time champion arsenic a apical adjunct successful Golden State and San Antonio nether Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich. He has coached an array of superstars crossed 3 decades successful the NBA with the Warriors, Spurs, Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers and Kings.
Brown has coached Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson; Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker; LeBron James; Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol; and De'Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis.
He was fired by the Kings successful December aft a 13-18 commencement to the season, this contempt having led the franchise to its archetypal playoff berth successful 16 seasons successful 2023 -- breaking the longest postseason drought successful NBA past arsenic the Kings had the top-rated discourtesy successful the NBA.
Brown, who has a combined grounds of 454-304 arsenic a caput manager with the Cavaliers, Lakers and Kings, won his archetypal NBA Coach of the Year grant successful 2009 with Cleveland. He won the grant again successful 2023 with Sacramento.
The Knicks person not reached the NBA Finals since 1999 and haven't won an NBA rubric since 1973.
ESPN's Shams Charania and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
