CBS · Jun 8, 2016
76ers’ Assistant Rooks Dies Not Long After Interview With Knicks
Assistant coach Sean Rooks of the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA D-League talks with the team during practice at media day Nov. 12, 2013 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (Photo by Dave Eggen/NBAE via Getty Images)PHILADELPHIA (CBSNewYork/AP) — Former NBA center and Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Sean Rooks died Tuesday after interviewing earlier in the day for a job with the New York Knicks. He was 46.
Rooks had visited with Knicks president Phil Jackson and general manager Steve Mills for an assistant coaching position on Jeff Hornacek’s staff. He had spent the past two years on Brett Brown’s staff in Philadelphia.
The cause of death was not known.
