{"id":1390,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1390","headline":"Knicks assistant Chris Jent stepping away from team for personal reasons","dek":"The associate head coach, who runs New York's offense, will miss an undisclosed stretch of games including Tuesday night against the Pistons.","body":"The Knicks will be without one of their key coaches for a while. Associate head coach Chris Jent, who oversees the offense under Mike Brown, is away from the team for an undisclosed period due to personal reasons, with the situation described as fluid.\n\nJent already sat out the second and third games of the season, losses to the Celtics in Boston and the Magic at Madison Square Garden. He will also miss Tuesday night's game against the Pistons at MSG.\n\nAssistant T.J. Saint has stepped into Jent's spot on the bench during his absences, leading huddles during timeouts with a clipboard in hand. Saint previously ran the Knicks' Summer League team.\n\nThere is no timetable yet for Jent's return.","published_at":"2026-10-28T22:35:19.308693+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Knicks assistant Chris Jent to miss time due to personal reasons","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/knicks-assistant-chris-jent-miss-200429618.html"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Knicks associate head coach Chris Jent to be away from team for personal reasons","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7730313/2026/10/27/knicks-associate-coach-absent-personal-reasons/"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Knicks assistant Chris Jent to miss time due to personal reasons","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/27/sports/knicks-assistant-chris-jent-to-miss-time-due-to-personal-reasons/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Sources: Knicks assistant Jent steps away for personal reasons","url":"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50302780/knicks-assistant-coach-chris-jent-takes-personal-leave"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}