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Enter Johnnie Bryant. The Cavs’ associate head coach was already a name to watch this summer. A finalist for the Phoenix Suns’ head coaching job, Bryant is now also a logical candidate to ...
Johnnie Bryant is reuniting with Donovan Mitchell, but not in the way the Knicks imagined. Bryant, the Knicks associate head coach for the last four seasons, is leaving to join the Cavaliers for ...
Johnnie Bryant, the Knicks associate head coach, has a deep and documented history with Mitchell, who has credited the development guru with lifting him into stardom with the Utah Jazz.
Cavaliers; The irreplaceable connection: Why Johnnie Bryant’s departure could leave a void in Donovan Mitchell’s leadership journey. Published: ; May. 24, 2025, 5:15 a.m.
Former Knicks associate coach Johnnie Bryant has been named a finalist for the Suns head coach vacancy. Getty Images. Now, he’ll meet with Suns owner Mat Ishbia, CEO Josh Bartelstein and general ...
The Phoenix Suns made a coaching hire, and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Jordan Ott will lead their franchise. This matters to the Knicks, too. Ott was one of 15 candidates to earn ...
Bryant, who turns 39 next month, was the associate head coach for the Knicks since 2020 when Tom Thibodeau arrived to lead the team. Before his time with the Knicks, Bryant spent six seasons on ...
The 39-year-old Bryant has been in the NBA for more than a decade as an assistant with the Utah Jazz and New York Knicks before joining the Cavaliers as associate head coach in 2024. He played in ...
Before Johnnie Bryant moved to the New York Knicks bench as Tom Thibodeau’s associate head coach, he spent the last three of his seven seasons with the Utah Jazz molding Donovan Mitchell into a ...
Success sometimes comes with a price. For the Cavaliers, that very well could mean losing associated head coach Johnnie Bryant, a favorite of Kenny Atkinson and star guard Donovan Mitchell.
The Knicks' coaching vacancy opens the door for Johnnie Bryant — once Tom Thibodeau’s protégés and still Donovan Mitchell’s most trusted voice — to step into the lead role.