LAS VEGAS — Fresh off meeting with Mike Brown as part of the NBA Cup coverage, Stan Van Gundy applauded the new Knicks coach for checking his ego in the locker room and not reinventing what Tom Thibodeau set in motion.

“I give Mike Brown a ton of credit because he knows that Tom is a helluva coach,” Van Gundy, the longtime coach and current analyst for Amazon Prime, said in an interview before Brown’s Knicks faced the Magic in Saturday’s NBA Cup semis. “He said that in our meeting today. So he didn’t try to change everything. He tried to tinker a little. And then he came back to a lot of the stuff (that Thibodeau did).

“But he’s taking advantage of the continuity they have with their roster rather than throwing everything out, trying to do it differently.”

Brown started his Knicks tenur

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