How Gregg Popovich helped Knicks’ Mike Brown arrive at this moment: ‘A special human being’
- Posted on June 7, 2026
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How Gregg Popovich helped Knicks’ Mike Brown arrive at this moment: ‘A special human being’
Even though Knicks coach Mike Brown earned some of his coaching chops as a Spurs assistant under Gregg Popovich from 2000-2003, he didn’t dare to reach out to him ahead of the NBA Finals. The fear? Sabotage. “He’s savvy,” Brown said before Game 1 against the Spurs. “He’s very competitive. If I reached out to him and asked him for some advice, he’d give me some BS that worked against us.” Brown’s joke had Popovich’s fingerprints all over it. See,...
