Mike Brown's collaboration and leadership skills were determining factors toward the New York Knicks hiring him as their next head coach, per ESPN's Shams Charania on Wednesday's edition of NBA Today.

Brown has had a relatively unusual head coaching career. Rather than starting out with a young team and growing slowly, he was thrown into the fire as the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers right as LeBron James began to grow into a superstar.

The veteran NBA coach and former leader of the Lakers would replace Tom Thibodeau, who was fired last month despite leading the Knicks to the conference finals.