Brendan O’Connor Added as Assistant Coach

With five years of NBA coaching and scouting experience, the New Hampshire-native has been reunited with Brown after two seasons on the Hall-of-Famer’s staff on Detroit’s NBA Championship team in 2004 and Eastern Conference Championship team in 2005.

O’Connor started his NBA career with the Pistons as an advance scout in 2000, and was then promoted to assistant coach/advance scout in July of 2002.

Prior to his days in Michigan, O’Connor has a long and impressive resume of coaching experience in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), United States Basketball League (USBL) and International Basketball League (IBL). Assisting Eric Musselman with the Florida Sharks of the USBL in 1995 and 1996, the Sharks won the league’s championship both seasons. He also teamed with Musselman at the Florida Beachdogs of the CBA in 1995-96 and 1996-97. O’Connor was an assistant coach/director of player personnel with both the Grand Rapids Hoops (1997-99) of the CBA and Richmond Rhythm (1999-2000) of the IBL.