The New York Knicks began the offseason with an intense head coaching search after they fired Tom Thibodeau. During the search, they considered several different candidates, including those who were already coaches of another team.

Knicks tried to pursue Joe Mazzulla this summer

Eventually, they landed on Mike Brown, who wasn’t with another team. Some of the known coaches that they pursued despite them being with a different team include Rockets’ Ime Udoka and Mavericks’ Jason Kidd.

Additionally, it appears that New York tried to poach another head coach from a strong team.

“It’s been whispered the Knicks likely did some backchannel exploration to determine if there was any pathway to pursue Boston’s Joe Mazzulla. There obviously was not…then the Celtics extended Mazzulla’s contract,”

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