Tom Thibodeau didn’t deserve this.
The Knicks coach didn’t deserve to get fired three days after the team finished their best season in a quarter century. He didn’t deserve to have the rug yanked from underneath him, after changing the culture and direction of a franchise that had been mired in dysfunction and failure for most of this century. Thibodeau didn’t deserve to go out this way, but he has.
The Knicks better know what they are doing.
I’m sure they have a plan. I’m not convinced it’s a good one. As much as I’d like to have faith in a Knicks management that brought in Jalen Brunson and is attempting to build a championship around him, after covering 14 different Knicks coaches in 23 years, it’s a little hard to get excited about the decision to fire a coach who got the team to th