Brown, an ESPN NBA analyst, and the Warriors have registered mutual interest in discussing the job since Smart's dismissal on April 27 and are expected to meet formally soon, sources said.

The Warriors, sources said, have also requested and received permission from the Mavericks to interview Casey, with an interview expected to take place before Dallas begins its Western Conference finals series against either Oklahoma City or Memphis, which will start Sunday at the earliest.

It's believed that the Warriors also have strong interest in Boston Celtics assistant coach Lawrence Frank. ESPN.com reported Friday that Frank and Casey have emerged as two of the Houston Rockets' most serious candidates, with multiple media outlets reporting that TNT's Kevin McHale is also a Rockets finalist.

But Warriors officials have also spoken of their desire to take their time with the search to interview several candidates, not unlike the Rockets' approach in their search to replace Rick Adelman.

NBA coaching sources say that the Warriors also do intend to reach out to coaching veterans Jeff Van Gundy (also an ESPN NBA analyst) and Jerry Sloan to gauge their interest in succeeding Smart, but it is not immediately known if those conversations will progress to the interview stage.

Warriors general manager Larry Riley has said little publicly about the search but has not ruled out the possibility that the team would make a hire before the June 23rd NBA draft.

Brown, the 2008-09 NBA Coach of the Year, coached the Cavaliers for five seasons and posted a record of 272-138 before his dismissal after last season's second-round loss to the Celtics.

The 54-year-old Casey has been waiting for second shot at a top job since being dismissed by the Minnesota Timberwolves with a record of 20-20 during the 2006-07 season. He narrowly missed out on coaching jobs last summer with the Atlanta Hawks and Los Angeles Clippers and could see his chances in Houston boosted by his association with Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, who is highly regarded by the Rockets. Casey has been working largely as the Mavericks' defensive coordinator since coming to Dallas with Carlisle starting with the 2008-09 season.

Smart took over shortly before last season and posted a 36-46 record after Don Nelson was informed by new owner Joe Lacob and Riley in September that he would not be retained. The Warriors are thus looking for their third coach in three seasons, which prompted Riley to say "some stability once we make the next selection" is high on Golden State's list of goals.
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Nalod wrote:Franchises that failed fire coach and interview other coaches that were also fired to revive a franchise whose players are offensive minded and now want to bring in a defensive coach to balance the situation bought to attention by a MDA hater who forgets we made the playoffs and had a winning record better than those franchises who are trying to find their way.

What have we learned this week?

Of melo comes to camp with no tits and in shape he can play better defense.

When we play a defensive player like JJ many hate on how bad his offense is.

If we had better interior defenders we will play better defense.

Im sure one day Dwayne Casey will get a good gig and do well with it. Same for Mike Brown. Good guys. Their hope exceeds MDA in the eyes of some.

Ok.

crzymdups wrote:yeah, we should trade mike d'antoni to the Warriors for a first round pick or two. Warriors are a perfect fit for D'Antoni, they'd score 120ppg, win 45-50 games a year and lose in the first round every year.

Wow this revisionist history is interesting. Is that all MDA is capable of now, the 1st rd? I could swear he took his teams further than that in a tough western Conf. Now we judge him only on his time in NY? Unless one of these coaches wins a title I don't see much difference between them. There's the coach that wins the title and everyone else.

Nalod wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

Nalod wrote:Franchises that failed fire coach and interview other coaches that were also fired to revive a franchise whose players are offensive minded and now want to bring in a defensive coach to balance the situation bought to attention by a MDA hater who forgets we made the playoffs and had a winning record better than those franchises who are trying to find their way.

What have we learned this week?

Of melo comes to camp with no tits and in shape he can play better defense.

When we play a defensive player like JJ many hate on how bad his offense is.

If we had better interior defenders we will play better defense.

Im sure one day Dwayne Casey will get a good gig and do well with it. Same for Mike Brown. Good guys. Their hope exceeds MDA in the eyes of some.

Ok.

I think that the Warriors are smart to move on and go with a more traditional approach. However, Smart's team won 10 more games then the previous year and he hit a win mark that D'Antoni took three years to reach.

The parallels are almost mirror like!

Your as transparent as Fox news.

I don't mind your position, its just redundant on every issue knick related or not!

Example:

hey, Obama Got Bin Laden!

Crush: Yeah, got him like Donnie gonna fire MDA next year!

Or:

Man those tornados in Alabama! How awful!

Crush: Yeah, lucky they did not get some landmarks. Those tornados left them alone. LIke MDA left AR on the bench!

Or domestically:

Honey, did you remember the we needed to get some things at the grocery store?

Crush: Oh, sorry hun, I'll get them next time, like when MDA benched Darko and eventually traded him!

Mrs. crush: do I have to go with you to remind you?

Crush: LIke when Donnie went to texas with the team to make sure Toney Douglas got some playing time?

Mrs Crush: Im gonna be an unrestricted free agent if you don't cut that crap out!

Crush: Sorry babe, whanna get in the back of the truck? Or what ever?

Mrs. crush: Oh, you like my new outfit do you? You noticed!

Crush: Yeah, you look "Youthier"!

mrs Cruch: All of a sudden Im not in the mood.

crush: Oh, so Im all in shape ready to go, just like Marbury was and got put in the dog house by MDA?

Mrs. Crush. Yeah, I only play "GOOD" husbands!

Your ridiculous posting has yet to back up Dantoni's weak defensive numbers.

crzymdups wrote:yeah, we should trade mike d'antoni to the Warriors for a first round pick or two. Warriors are a perfect fit for D'Antoni, they'd score 120ppg, win 45-50 games a year and lose in the first round every year.

The MDA hate never stops amazing me. He has been successful in phoenix. It's not his fault they were too cheap to resign Joe Johnson and actually upgrade the team outside of giving big deals to Nash and Richardson. And in new york, is it his fault he has had a completely different roster multiple times during his short tenure here? Let's give him a chance to fit this team together with a training camp and not as many major changes. If i'm wrong fine, but only after we give him a chance.

JrZyHuStLa wrote:

Nalod wrote:
You crush?

Numbers?

Naw, its subjective. I watch the games. Liked what I saw this year with the Yoots. I saw what could be.

I'd like to see it now with Melo and the team win 50 games and advance one round.

Whattaya gonna root for? Go a whole year wishing MDA messes up so we can HOPE for a brand new Shiny fresh coach and root for him to do well? Im gonna root for MDA and knicks this year and have fun.

and if the teams don't play well then we'll cross that bridge at that time.

Dantoni failed miserably with one of the greatest point guards of all time and Amare Stoudemire.

What makes you think he will succeed with this team?

FAILED? how did Mike fail in PHX? Given what he had he was pretty successful. He didn't have a healthy STAT every season in PHX. The 1st full season STAT was fully healthy but then he had the surgery and missed a full season pretty much. The next full season STAT was still getting back his legs and his stats were down. This often goes ignored by those who like to bash Mike. Here in NY it's been so full of change how can we know for sure just how good this coach is until we settle on a roster without major overhauls? Hopefully we'll finally get to see that.

Nalod wrote:
You crush?

Numbers?

Naw, its subjective. I watch the games. Liked what I saw this year with the Yoots. I saw what could be.

I'd like to see it now with Melo and the team win 50 games and advance one round.

Whattaya gonna root for? Go a whole year wishing MDA messes up so we can HOPE for a brand new Shiny fresh coach and root for him to do well? Im gonna root for MDA and knicks this year and have fun.

and if the teams don't play well then we'll cross that bridge at that time.

Nalod wrote:
You crush?

Numbers?

Naw, its subjective. I watch the games. Liked what I saw this year with the Yoots. I saw what could be.

I'd like to see it now with Melo and the team win 50 games and advance one round.

Whattaya gonna root for? Go a whole year wishing MDA messes up so we can HOPE for a brand new Shiny fresh coach and root for him to do well? Im gonna root for MDA and knicks this year and have fun.

and if the teams don't play well then we'll cross that bridge at that time.

i'm actually coming around on MDA. i agree with your sentiment of "what do you hope happens anyway." i don't think MDA can win with his style of play -- it hasn't worked and maybe i just fear the unknown. but i'm hoping for an offseason which gives the gentleman thief a 9 man rotation and a training camp where he can figure out how to make the STAT/Melo offensive duo unstoppable (which it should be).

i'll reserve my judgment on MDA the coach. MDA's system of no defense and "you score more you win" doesn't have any footing for me -- i look at the past 20 champions and see teams that could get stops when they needed to. but let's see if he can do it. if not, then i'll sure as hell be hoping for a new suit who will emphasize what i see are the things that should be emphasized -- defensive rotations, talking on defense, boxing out.

i believe in donnie. i'm willing to give MDA one more shot.