“I love my father, the best coach I’ve ever known,” Michael Malone said after the Nuggets won the NBA championship in June.
He was not on the list.
Malone grew up in Astoria, Queens in New York City and graduated from Rice High School. Malone's father, also named Brendan, unloaded freight cars for the Railway Express Agency. Malone then attended Iona College. He played only one game in 1960 for the Iona Gaels men's basketball team and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1962.
After graduating from Iona, Malone then became a CYO
basketball coach for the Church of the Most Precious Blood Queens then became junior varsity basketball coach at
Power Memorial Academy in 1967. Malone also enrolled at New York
University and graduated with a master's degree in physical education in 1968.
From 1970 to 1976, Malone was varsity basketball coach at Power Memorial and
led Power Memorial to two city championships. During his six-season stint,
Malone earned three "Coach of the Year" honors.
Malone was named an assistant coach at Fordham on April 5,
1976. He also served in a similar capacity at the collegiate level with Yale
(1977–1978), and Syracuse (1978–1984 under Jim Boeheim) before becoming head
coach at Rhode Island from 1984 to 1986.
Malone then got his first NBA coaching job as an assistant
for the New York Knicks in 1986 and served two seasons in the staffs of head
coaches Hubie Brown, Bob Hill, and Rick Pitino. In 1988, Malone joined the
Detroit Pistons as an assistant coach under Chuck Daly. Malone stayed in
Detroit until 1995 and also coached under Ron Rothstein in the 1992–93 season
and Don Chaney from 1993 to 1995. Malone helped coach the Pistons to the 1989
and 1990 NBA championship titles.
Malone was named as the first head coach (1995–96) of the
Toronto Raptors, one of two 1995 NBA expansion teams in Canada. Malone was
appointed the job by the Raptors' general manager of the time, Isiah Thomas.
Malone was long considered the NBA's leading authority on defending Michael
Jordan, particularly after orchestrating Detroit Piston defenses that kept
Jordan's Bulls out of the NBA Finals for some time. Malone only lasted one
season as head coach of the Raptors, going 21–61, but handed the championship
Bulls one of their few losses that season. Following his time with the Raptors,
Malone served as an assistant coach with the Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks,
Detroit Pistons and as a consultant with the Seattle SuperSonics. He was the
interim head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2004–05.
On July 3, 2007, Malone was one of four assistants hired to
serve under new Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy. On June 25, 2013, he
was hired as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings, under new head coach
Mike Malone, his son, who himself was hired earlier that month. However, on
October 23, 2013, his resignation was announced, with the "rigors of
coaching in the NBA" cited as the reason. On May 30, 2014, Malone was
one of three assistants hired to serve under new Detroit Pistons head coach
Stan Van Gundy.
Career history
As coach:
1967–1970 Power
Memorial Academy (JV)
1970–1976 Power
Memorial Academy
1976–1977 Fordham
(assistant)
1977–1978 Yale
(assistant)
1978–1984 Syracuse
(assistant)
1984–1986 Rhode
Island
1986–1988 New
York Knicks (assistant)
1988–1995 Detroit
Pistons (assistant)
1995–1996 Toronto
Raptors
1996–2000 New
York Knicks (assistant)
2000–2003 Indiana
Pacers (assistant)
2003–2004 New
York Knicks (assistant)
2004–2005 Cleveland
Cavaliers (assistant)
2005 Cleveland
Cavaliers
2007–2012 Orlando
Magic (assistant)
2014–2016 Detroit
Pistons (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As assistant coach:
2× NBA champion (1989, 1990)
Big East tournament champion (1981)
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