Maurice Cheeks has been awarded the 2025 Tex Winter Assistant Coach Lifetime Impact Award by the NBCA. The award recognizes assistant coaches with storied careers and substantial impacts in the NBA. Cheeks, a Hall of Fame player with accomplishments including an NBA championship and four All-Star appearances, has over 300 wins as a head coach and extensive experience as an assistant coach. He rejoined the Knicks last year as an assistant after playing two seasons with the team. His future role with new coach Mike Brown remains uncertain.
Mo Cheeks has done it again! A man of quiet dignity but high impact, Mo has backed up a Hall of Fame playing career with yet another great honor. Congrats to one of the game's all-time greats.
The award, which is named after former Knicks' president Phil Jackson's assistant coach, is given annually to an assistant coach who has had a storied career as an NBA Assistant Coach and has made a consistent, substantial impact while on the bench.
This is just the latest achievement in Cheeks' Hall of Fame career, which includes an NBA championship, four All-Star appearances as a player, over 300 wins as a head coach, and six stops as an assistant coach over 21 years.
Cheeks, who spent two seasons with the Knicks during his playing career, returned to the team as an assistant coach last year.
Collection
[
|
...
]