Knicks’ Mike Brown playfully picks up a reporter’s ringing phone at presser
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New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown was speaking about heart Mitchell Robinson’s free-throw capturing points when one other one rose: a reporter’s phone went off.
Brown, 56, playfully picked up the phone and spoke into it, whereas giving a lecture on reporters’ have to preserve their telephones muted.
“Whoever phone this is, you need to do a better job of muting when you get a text,” Brown stated, into the phone. “Because when you get a text, it interrupts the press conference. And people here don’t like when the press conference gets interrupted. So, I’d appreciate your help next time, whose phone this is. Thank you. I’m sorry, was there another question?”
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New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown appears on in the course of the first half towards the Charlotte Hornets at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, on April 12, 2026. (Vincent Carchietta/Imagn Images)
A reporter stepped up and claimed the unmuted phone as his.
“I’m sorry, coach. I’m guilty,” the reporter stated.
“Okay, no problem,” Brown stated whereas laughing. “You’re a stand-up guy. I like it.”
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New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown yells in the course of the first half of an NBA sport towards the Toronto Raptors in New York, New York, on April 10, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo)
Brown’s Knicks squad took a 1-0 sequence lead over the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday evening, successful 113-102. Jalen Brunson (28 factors) and Karl-Anthony Towns (25 factors) led the way in which within the series-opening victory.
Brown is in his first season because the Knicks head coach, because the workforce fired Tom Thibodeau after dropping to the Indiana Pacers within the Eastern Conference Finals final season.
There is a heightened-pressure on Brown and the Knicks to at least attain the NBA Finals, as workforce proprietor James Dolan stated as a lot in a uncommon radio interview with WFAN in January.
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New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown reacts in the course of the second half of an NBA sport towards the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta on April 6, 2026. (Colin Hubbard/AP)
“I’d say we want to get to the Finals and we should win the Finals,” Dolan stated in the course of the interview. “This is sports; anything can happen. Getting to the Finals, we absolutely have to do. Winning the Finals, we should do.”
The Knicks bought off on the fitting foot with their win on Saturday evening, a win Dolan hopes is the primary of 16 video games the workforce will win en path to a title. The Knicks play the Hawks in Game 2 on Monday at 8 pm ET.
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