The New York Knicks are ready to hire the twice coach of the NBA year Mike Brown as their chief coach, according to multiple reports.
Brown, 55, was the chief coach of the Sacramento Kings. The Kings hired Brown in 2022 and took the team to the consecutive winning seasons before being fired in December after 13-18.
Brown will now have large shoes to fill New York.
The Knicks finished 51-31 with Tom Thibodeau in 2025, their best season of the regular season won the total since 2013. In the playoffs, New York reached the finals of the conference for the first time in 25 years.
Since 2000, Thibodeau is the only chief coach who has led New York for more than 300 regular seasonal games. Thibodeau also led the Knicks to more playoff victories than all coaches from 2001 to 2020 combined.
Thibodeau was 226-174 in five seasons with the Knicks, advancing to the postseason four times.
New York fired Thibodeau in June after the team lost to the Indiana Pacers in six games in the conference finals.
Before his period with Sacramento, Brown was an assistant of the Golden State Warriors, with whom he won three championships, as well as coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers (twice) and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Since 2005-10, Brown took LeBron James and the Cavaliers to two seasons of 60 wins, as well as an appearance in the NBA finals in 2007. He won his first prize to the coach of the year in 2009.
Then he would train the Lakers, arriving at the playoffs in 2012 before being fired only five games in the next season.
Brown spent another season at Cleveland of 2013-14, then joined the Warriors staff in 2016, spending six seasons with the club. He acted as a chief coach during 12 games during the 2017 playoffs, while Steve Kerr was absent due to a subsequent problem, publishing a 12-0 record.
In 2023, Brown was a coach of the year again after taking the Kings to his first postseason in 17 years. Sacramento won 46 games in 2024, but could not reach the playoffs after losing in the game tournament.
In 758 career games, Brown has a 454-304 record, a winning percentage of .599. Not including the games that they trained instead of Kerr, Brown also has a 50-40 record in the postseason.
