The Oklahoma City Thunder have added a man with head coaching experience to the staff of Mark Daigneault.
Mike Miller, who spent most of last season as the interim head coach of the New York Knicks, will be joining the Thunder staff, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
In 44 games with Miller at the helm, the Knicks went 17-27, a large improvement on the 4-18 start to the season they had under David Fizdale.
Like Daigneault, Miller has G League coaching experience.
Miller was an assistant coach for the Austin Toros/Spurs beginning in 2015 and then the head coach of the Westchester Knicks from 2015-19. The Knicks made the playoffs in three of the four seasons with Miller in charge.
He was hired as a New York Knicks assistant in 2019 then became interim head coach that season.
The bulk of Miller’s coaching experience comes at the college level. He first became an assistant coach in 1989 at Western Illinois, spending a year there before moving to Sam Houston State, which also lasted a season before he spent three as a Texas State assistant.
That’s where he earned his first head coaching experience, leading Texas State from 1994-2000. The team went 87-79 with him as head coach and made an NCAA Tournament for just the second time in program history.
After the 2000 season, Miller served as an assistant coach at Kansas State until 2005. He was hired as Eastern Illinois head coach, where he led from 2005-2012. The team went 75-130 with Miller at the helm.
After a one-year stint as a UC Riverside assistant, Miller moved to the G League level.
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