Episode 315: Charles Allen, Assistant Coach, New York Knicks

The Rising Coaches Podcast · Nov 9, 2026 · 50m

On this episode of the Rising Coaches Podcast, we’re joined by Charles Allen, Assistant Coach with the New York Knicks. Allen’s journey includes playing at Dallas Baptist before working his way through coaching roles with Houston, Phoenix, Houston again, Utah, Sacramento, and now New York. In this episode we discuss what his one-week tryout as a student manager for Kelvin Sampson at Houston was really like, how working with different coaching minds shaped the coach he is today, what makes an assistant truly valuable beyond simply knowing basketball, and some of his biggest “welcome to the…