Phil Ford & Dale Hanners

Phil Ford and Dave Hanners rejoined coach Larry Brown on Tuesday when they were hired as New York Knicks assistants.

Ford spent last season as an assistant under Brown at Detroit. He served 12 years as a North Carolina assistant, including the 1993 NCAA championship season. Ford was the 1979 NBA rookie of the year.

Hanners was an assistant the last two seasons with the Pistons. He has 17 years of coaching experience, including three with the Philadelphia 76ers under Brown. He also worked for 12 seasons on the North Carolina staff.

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no big surprise here and i think when you're comfortable and familiar with a situation (this being his staff) it makes it more easy to be successful..

with also Aguirre and Williams on the bench as well I see a bonified coaching staff. You have the Defensive specialist, the funamentals specialists and the big man specialists...

cant wait to hear the reports from the beginning of Training camp, starts October 4th boys!

Ok. We have all the coaching specialist. What a coaching staff. Atleast we're heading in the right direction. We just need the right players in place and we're in business.

werent we about to get that guy from pepperdine, i think paul westphal was his name (not sure about the spelling)

i think only if herb williams got the job... lb brought in his own clean up crew.