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BRIAN Goorjian, the NBL's coaching G.O.A.T. will be back at the helm of the Sydney Kings, the club he guided to a championship threepeat in 2003-04-05, the Boomers' four-time Olympic mentor doubly delighted today with news Patty Mills is signing with the NBA's Miami Heat.

Mills was waived last week by Atlanta Hawks where he was obviously out of favour, hitting the court in just 19 of their 58 games this season, delivering 2.7 points, 1.1 rebounds in 10.6 minutes, shooting 37.3 percent from the floor and 38.2 from 3-point range.

He was waived the same day Mahmoud Abdelfattah was released from the second year of his contract as head coach of the Kings and Mills' signing comes on top of Goorjian's return to the helm in Sydney.

Seeing so little on-court action with Atlanta was going to obviously be detrimental toward Patty's role with the Boomers in their Paris pursuit of a medal, but Goorjian no longer has that headache to ponder.

He also now can approach both the Olympics and NBL seasons with a settled mind after many erroneous and overblown unscourced reports had him earmarked for the Adelaide 36ers coaching job.

Virtually two months ago when Goorjian declared his interest in returning to the NBL after a long stint coaching in China, two years back at the Illawarra Hawks and further time coaching in the East Asia Super League, we did report this quite confidently here. And yes, almost two months ago...

Returning to Sydney, Goorjian is a six-time championship coach at South East Melbourne (1992, 1996), Sydney (2003, 2004, 2005) and South Dragons (2009), a six-time NBL Coach of the Year (1992, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2009) and the winner of 533 of 803 games, a 68.9% success rate.

He also coached the Boomers to Olympic Games in Athens, Beijing, Tokyo - where Patty Mills led them on-court to our historic first medal - and later this year in Paris.

“I don’t know if it’s going to be five years, or ten years, or three years, or whatever. I’ll know when it’s done and right now, I have huge energy and I want to finish my coaching as a King," Goorjian, 70, said today.

Today's contract is for three years at the helm.

On a 35-26 win-loss record, Miami has legitimate Eastern Conference playoff ambitions, and Mills' injection into an injury-cruelled lineup would be a Godsend.

Heat guard Tyler Herro has been sidelined since February 23 with a knee injury, Josh Richardson (shoulder) out since February 11.

Bringing his big-game experience and shot-making ability to the Heat is a win-win for both parties.

According to the Miami Herald, with the Heat already at the 15-player maximum for standard contracts, it will waive guard Dru Smith to make room for Patty.

Smith, whose salary for next season was non-guaranteed, is out for the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his right knee in late December.

The Heat will sign Mills to a minimum contract for the rest of the season, according to a league source. The move has not yet been formally announced by the team.

The signing of Mills serves as protection amid uncertainty surrounding Richardson’s status for the rest of the season, the guard needing shoulder surgery.