Herb Williams will remain as a Knicks assistant coach, joining Phil Weber and Dan D’Antoni on head coach Mike D’Antoni’s staff, the team announced today.
“We have three top quality assistant coaches that will be great assets as we work towards our goal of bringing winning basketball back to New York,” team president Donnie Walsh said. “Phil and Dan enjoyed tremendous success with coach [Mike] D’Antoni in Phoenix, while Herb has been a great part of our franchise for many years.”
Williams will enter his eighth season on the Knicks’ bench, following an 18-year NBA career. He served 44 games as interim head coach, including the final 43 games of the 2004-05 season after Lenny Wilkens was fired.
Weber joins the Knicks after nine seasons as an assistant coach in Phoenix, which included 4 1/2 seasons under Mike D’Antoni.
After leading Long Island Lutheran High School to a state championship, Weber played for Jim Valvano at North Carolina State. He served as an assistant coach at the University of Florida, Chaminade University, and Iona College before joining the Suns in September 1999.
Dan D’Antoni spent the past three seasons as an assistant under his younger brother Mike in Phoenix. The Mullens, West Va., native played college basketball at Marshall University and began coaching as a senior, when he guided the school’s freshman team that featured Mike. Following school, Dan D’Antoni embarked on a 30-year high school coaching career in South Carolina.