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Knicks announce hiring of 4 assistant coaches

Mike Blake / USA Today

New York Knicks president Phil Jackson announced the hiring of Jim Cleamons, Rasheed Hazzard and Brian Keefe as assistant coaches, and Joshua Longstaff as assistant coach of player development on Wednesday.

All four coaches have past connections with Jackson and new Knicks head coach Derek Fisher. Cleamons and Hazzard both served as assistants under Jackson, while Fisher knows Keefe and Longstaff from his days playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Cleamons has more than three decades of coaching experience - including seven seasons alongside Jackson with the Chicago Bulls and 10 with the Los Angeles Lakers - and spent last season with the Milwaukee Bucks. Hazzard worked under Jackson with the Lakers from 2006-11.

Keefe joined Oklahoma City in 2007 and spent the last five seasons as an assistant coach. Longstaff is a former high school basketball coach who was a video analyst for the Thunder for the last four seasons.

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