2007, McKie rejoined the 76ers as an assistant coach. On February 1, 2008, McKie, who was a Sixers assistant coach at the time, was traded by the Lakers to the Memphis Grizzlies, along with Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, rights to Marc Gasol, and the 2008 and 2010 first-round draft picks, for Pau Gasol. The Lakers' acquisition of Pau Gasol was only approved by the league office when the Lakers called McKie to inform him that they wanted to sign him and throw him in for salary cap reasons. He was released from the Grizzlies on May 9, 2008. Coaching career Philadelphia 76ers (2007-2013) After being released by the Grizzlies, McKie rejoined the Philadelphia coaching staff as an assistant in September 2008. He remained in that position until 2013. Temple Owls (2014-present) McKie left the Sixers staff to join the Temple men's basketball staff under Fran Dunphy. Temple University announced that he would replace Dunphy as the head coach of the men's basketball team starting with the 2019 season. McKie's first two seasons coaching Temple were both limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the AAC tournament and eventually the season was canceled. In 2021, almost all of out-of-conference play was canceled and the Owls only played 16 total games. McKie's first full season with the Owls came in the 2021-22 season. Temple went 17-12 and were seeded #4 in the 2022 AAC tournament and lost in the quarterfinals to Tulane. Career statistics Regular season |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Portland | 45|| 20 || 18.4 || .444 || .393 || .685 || 2.9 || 2.0 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 6.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Portland | 81 || 73 || 27.9 || .467 || .325 || .764 || 3.8 || 2.5 || 1.1 || 0.3 || 10.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Portland | 41 || 8 || 18.9 || .340 || .418 || .837 || 2.3 || 2.0 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 4.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Detroit | 42 || 3 || 20.2 || .464 || .375 || .836 || 3.0 || 1.8 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 6.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Detroit | 24 || 1 || 19.7 || .413 || .176 || .870 || 2.8 || 1.6 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 4.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Philadelphia | 57 || 31 || 23.5 || .347 || .196