Michael Malone follows the Chuck Martin move with another brilliant UNC staff hire

Add another notch to Michael Malone's belt.

The Tar Heels' new head coach is just a few days removed from poaching Chuck Martin from the Arkansas Razorbacks, and he has already made a second beautiful addition to his coaching staff.

Malone and the UNC Tar Heels are now set to hire Kim English, the former head coach at George Mason and Providence, adding even more invaluable college coaching experience to Malone's group of assistants.

Michael Malone adds Kim English to UNC Tar Heels staff

After playing in the NBA and overseas for a few years, English started his assistant coaching career, working for the Tulane Green Wave, Colorado Buffaloes, and Tennessee Volunteers before being named as George Mason's head coach in 2021.

Then, in 2023, English made the jump to Providence, and while his overall record as a head coach is just 82-81, his lengthy experience across the game of college basketball is exactly what Malone and the heels need.

Of course, Martin also brings a ton of assistant coaching experience to Chapel Hill, starting his career as an assistant coach with the Manhattan Jaspers in 1999. UNC will be the 11th program that Martin has held an assistant or associate coaching position with, spending five seasons as the Marist Red Foxes' head coach.

The two coaching additions are a massive step in the right direction for Malone, bringing the collegiate experience to Chapel Hill that the Heels' head coach can't necessarily claim for himself.

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Malone spent less than a decade at the collegiate coaching level before jumping to the NBA, becoming an assistant for the New York Knicks in 2001. Since then, he worked his way up to becoming a head coach in the league and never returned to college ball, until now.

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