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Larry Brown
NBA's New York Knicks Head Coach | 2005-06
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- InsideHoops.com considers him the best teacher in the entire basketball coaching game
- Almost every team Larry Brown coaches tends to overachieve and do better than expected
- Named head coach of Knicks on July 28, 2005
- Enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2002
- Larry Brown has won three ABA Coach of the Year awards
- Won 2001 NBA Coach of the Year honors
- Won NCAA Championship in 1988
- Won NBA Championship in 2004
- Coached 2003-04 Detroit Pistons to the NBA Championship in his first year as head coach
- Became first coach to win a NCAA and NBA Championship
- Was 12th coach in NBA history to win an NBA title in his first season
- Has coached an NBA record seven different teams to the NBA Playoffs
- Won his 900th career NBA game in 2003-04, becoming the seventh coach in NBA history to win 900 games
- Larry Brown spent four seasons in the ABA, earning Coach of the Year honors three times
- Brown returned to the collegiate ranks in 1979 as head coach at UCLA. The Bruins immediately went to the national championship game
- Spent five seasons as head coach at the University of Kansas, where he won the national championship in 1988
- As a player, Larry Brown was a member of the 1964 gold medal U.S. Olympic basketball team
- Brown is the only U.S. male to both play and coach in the Olympics
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