New York already hired Mike Brown as the new head coach of the Knicks.
The New York Knicks keep undergoing significant coaching staff changes under newly hired head coach Mike Brown.
Following the firing of Tom Thibodeau after the Knicks’ loss to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, the organization has cleared out much of the previous staff, as per Brown’s calls.
Former Knicks assistant coaches Othella Harrington, Daniel Brady, Dice Yoshimoto, and Andy Greer have all been let go, along with assistant video coordinator and Thibs’ nephew Nick Thibodeau.
The New York Knicks won’t retain assistant coaches Othella Harrington, Daniel Brady, Dice Yoshimoto, and assistant video coordinator Nick Thibodeau, nephew of Tom Thibodeau, league sources told @hoopshype. According to @SbondyNBA, Andy Greer is also not returning next season.
— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) July 25, 2025
Michael Scotto of HoopsHype reported that Brown is also bringing in two of his former Sacramento Kings assistants to join him in New York: Charles Allen and Riccardo Fois.
“The New York Knicks won’t retain assistant coaches Othella Harrington, Daniel Brady, Dice Yoshimoto, and assistant video coordinator Nick Thibodeau, nephew of Tom Thibodeau, league sources told @hoopshype. According to @SbondyNBA, Andy Greer is also not returning next season.” — Michael Scotto
Allen joined the Kings in 2022 as a video coordinator. Fois was previously with the Phoenix Suns as a player development coach before spending the 2024–25 season in Sacramento.
Brown is also retaining two members of the Thibodeau era in Maurice Cheeks—who joined the Knicks in 2024—and Rick Brunson—father of Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson. The elder Brunson, however, will stay in New York in a reduced role instead of having assistant coach duties, as he did during Thibs’ stint at the helm of the Knicks.
Brown and the Knicks will enter the 2025–26 season with higher expectations than they have carried into a new campaign for the past quarter-century.
The former Kings coach, however, comes with vast experience in high-stakes situations, whether that’s as the head or assistant coach of a few of his former teams. Brown led the LBJ Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2007 and later won four championships as an assistant with the dynastic Golden State Warriors.
Most recently, during his tenure in Sacramento, Brown ended the franchise’s 16-year playoff drought in 2023, winning 48 games after racking up 46 wins a year later, months before he got canned in the middle of the 2024-25 season with the Knigs boasting a putrid 3-11 record around the flipping of the calendar page to 2025 in late December.