Mike Brown is no fool.

He has been around the NBA long enough to see just how hard it is to keep a coaching job at Madison Square Garden. Brown broke into the coaching ranks as an assistant in Washington in 1997. In the intervening years, the Knicks have had 16 head and interim head coaches while Brown has been hired and fired as a head coach four times.

Suffice it to say, Knicks head coach has never been a title you seek if you are interested in job security. Even so, the Knicks job he is taking over from Tom Thibodeau may be the least secure it has been in decades. Considering that Thibodeau was fired in June days after leading the team to its first appearance in the Eastern Conference finals in 25 years, Brown has to have a pretty good idea of the situation he is walking into.

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