SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are reportedly losing arguably their most important assistant coach.
The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Tuesday that Johnnie Bryant will be hired by the New York Knicks to be their associate head coach under new head coach Tom Thibodeau.
Bryant, who played collegiately at the University of Utah, joined the Jazz staff in 2012 as a player development assistant and rose to become an assistant coach. Throughout, he built a reputation as a great player developer, most notably being a central figure in the development of All-Stars Gordon Hayward and Donovan Mitchell.