Knicks fire coach Tom Thibodeau after he led them to conference finals
The New York Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau on Tuesday, parting ways with the hard-nosed coach just days after he guided the franchise to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2000.
Thibodeau, 67, was hired in 2020 to turn around an organization that had missed the playoffs in seven consecutive seasons. Sure enough, Thibodeau's Knicks returned to the postseason in 2021 and advanced to the second round in 2023, marking the team's first playoff series win in a decade.
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