Knicks rumoured Carmelo Anthony and Tom Thibodeau fire
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INDIANAPOLIS – The New York Knicks have lost search for a new head coach.
At this rate, they ask 29 other teams to have permission to interview their coaches and are denied 29 permissions.
The Dallas Mavericks denied the Knicks’ permission to interview Jason Kidd. The Minnesota Timberwolves did the same thing as Chris Finch. The Houston Rockets did the same with Ime Udoka. The Chicago bull did the same thing as Billy Donovan, and the Atlanta Hawks did the same thing with Quinn Snyder, according to multiple reports.
So, what was their plan? I hope a team with a good coach will send a good coach to the Knicks in exchange for a second draft pick.
If you fire a coach who played the team in their first Eastern Conference Finals in 25 seasons, established a winning identity and helped change the perception of the franchise, it would be better to prepare a list of coaches and use them for interviews and work.
And the Knicks don’t seem to organize parts of their home, leading them to believe that the front office hadn’t planned to fire Thibodeau.
“The Knicks have to be the stupidest people in the world,” TNT’s Charles Barkley said before game three of the NBA Finals on Wednesday.
Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports said, “Dolan and team president Leon Rose held an exit meeting with major Knicks players and reported that the complaints were clear.
Someone (or more people) convinced Dolan that it would be necessary to fire a successful coach for three years and $30 million.
Was Thibodeau the perfect coach? Of course it’s not. All coaches have flaws. He may have developed more benches and tried to give the starters more minutes or more, but he also achieved considerable success. The Knicks hadn’t had a back-to-back 50 win seasons, from the mid-1990s to 50 games in 2023-24 and 51 games in 2024-25.
The Knicks look like they’re a franchise of torture before bringing in Rose and Thibodeau. And all the good work done to make the Knicks a capable franchise risks being reverted.
How will the Knicks save this? Great question. Former Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins and longtime NBA coach Mike Brown are available and are a name to watch. Jenkins doesn’t embarrass the difficult players, but has the right combination of challenging players, and Brown has star and big market experience. Johnny Bryant, a former New York Knicks assistant who spent last season as the Cleveland Cavaliers’ associate head coach, is another name to watch.
The Knicks try to frame this to do due diligence. It’s hard to believe when they’re knocking on the door of some well-known coaches who are already working with other teams.