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Greg Brittenham
College - Nebraska-Kearney '80
For more than a decade, the responsibility of keeping the Knicks one of the
NBA’s best-conditioned teams has fallen upon Greg Brittenham.
“Any program is only as good as the effort put forth by the players, and the
support received from the coaches and staff,” says Greg, a member of the
staff for both Knicks Eastern Conference Championship teams of the 1990s.
“Over the years, I’ve had great support and have been very fortunate to be
affiliated with hard-working players.”

Brittenham, 45, is currently in his 14th year overall with the Knicks and 10th
as an assistant coach. Along with stressing such traits as strength, power,
speed, quickness, agility, coordination and nutrition in his programs,
he also takes a more functional approach toward athletic development.
He accomplishes this by combining basketball skills with conditioning methods,
including less time spent on conventional equipment, and more time developing
such traits as dynamic balance, coordination and body
control, all within a basketball context. Based out of the MSG Training Center
in Tarrytown, Greg also accompanies the Knicks on all road trips.

“I get a really good feeling from Greg,” says head coach Lenny Wilkens.
“I think sometimes, a strength coach doesn’t understand how what he does
fits in with the sports he’s working in. But Greg does, and that’s the
beauty of it. We want our players strong, but I’m not necessarily interested
in bulk as much as strength and stamina, because of what we do. Greg really
understands that. He understands that we need to be strong, we need to have
agility, we need to be ready condition-wise. We talked
last year, then I watched him work with the players and I’m very impressed.
I think he fits in perfectly.”

Greg is the author of two books, Complete Conditioning for Basketball
(which has also been issued as a home video), and Stronger Abs and Back:
Developing Your Center of Power (co-authored with his father, Dean Brittenham),
both published by Human Kinetics with worldwide distribution. Greg has also
produced several additional home videos on strength, conditioning and fitness.

Brittenham joined the Knicks in 1991-92, and is surpassed in seniority among
the coaching and training staff only by longtime head athletic trainer
Mike Saunders. Prior to arriving in New York, Greg served for three years as
co-director of athletic development for the National Institute for Fitness
and Sport in Indianapolis.

Brittenham is the holder of an undergraduate degree from the University of
Nebraska at Kearney and a Masters degree in kinesiology, with an emphasis on
motor development, from Indiana University. In past years, his varied
itinerary has taken him from youth camps in Alaska on behalf of the Klukwan
Heritage Foundation, to a stint as featured speaker at the national convention
of the American College of Sports Medicine in Orlando in 1998.

Greg's father Dean, a world-renowned 40-year veteran of the training field,
enjoyed a long tenure in the conditioning program at the famed Scripps Clinic
in LaJolla, CA. Now semi-retired, Dean Brittenham still trains many
world-class athletes from his home base in Colorado.

Born in Bakersfield, CA on Apr. 25, 1959, Greg lives in Stamford, CT with his
wife Luann and their children Max (17, a youth baseball and basketball star)
and Rachel (13, a star in her own right in basketball, soccer and baseball).
Greg lists his favorite hobby as spending all of his free time with his family
(including summer backpacking through Alaska in each of the last six years),
and also volunteers much of his time to working with area high school athletes.