(Photo : Nick Laham/Getty Images) NEW YORK – Head coach Maurice Cheeks of the Philadelphia 76ers seems on throughout a sport in opposition to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on November 26, 2005 in New York, New York. The Knicks received 105-102.
The New York Knicks will improve head coach Tom Thibodeau’s teaching workers with the addition of a Hall of Fame participant.
The group has employed Maurice Cheeks, who has had a distinguished teaching profession within the league since 2001, each as a head coach and an assistant.
The 67-year-old has been a part of Billy Donovan’s workers with the Oklahoma City Thunder since 2015, following Donovan to Cheeks’ hometown group, the Chicago Bulls, in 2020, the place he has continued to work earlier than this Knicks hiring.
Cheeks had a profitable enjoying profession from 1978 to 1993, profitable an NBA Championship with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983 and making the NBA All-Star Game 4 occasions.
The four-time All-NBA Defensive First Team member began his teaching profession as an assistant with the Sixers. He then assumed head teaching roles with the Portland Trail Blazers, returned to Philadelphia as a head coach, and had a quick stint with the Detroit Pistons.
Knicks made sturdy supply to Maurice Cheeks
Cheeks initially opted to step down from his full-time function with the Bulls below Donovan, preferring an advisory place inside the group.
However, the Knicks made an intriguing supply that was too interesting for him to say no, each on a private {and professional} degree, in line with Ryan Taylor of NBC Sports.
Having household ties within the New York space was additionally a big consider his determination.
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