Knicks to hire Maurice Cheeks as assistant coach on Tom Thibodeau’s staff: Report

The New York Knicks are planning to hire Bulls assistant coach Maurice Cheeks, NBC Sports Chicago’s K.C. Johnson confirmed Thursday. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report the news. Cheeks initially decided to move off his full-time role on the Bulls’ bench under Billy Donovan. He went to Donovan after the season to ask him about taking a lesser/advisory…