Sixers legend goes off on Knicks over Tom Thibodeau situation
Sixers legend goes off on Knicks over Tom Thibodeau situation
The New York Knicks made a shocking decision to fire coach Tom Thibodeau despite the team reaching the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2000. The Knicks have not had a lot of success over the previous two decades, but Thibodeau changed things when he took over the jump prior to the 2020-21 season.
While the Knicks were unable to overcome the Indiana Pacers in the conference finals, the fact that they were able to get there by dethroning the defending champion Boston Celtics was impressive. It was a run New York could continue to build on, but instead, it fired Thibodeau and there doesn't seem to be much of a plan.
The Knicks have been going after coaches who already have jobs. They have been denied by the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Chicago Bulls, and Atlanta Hawks for an interview request for their respective head coaches. It's a confusing route thus far and Philadelphia 76ers legend Charles Barkley has had enough:
The Knicks got to be the stupidest damn people in the world. Like you don't fire no good coach and don't have a plan. Thibs did a hell of a job. Obviously, something's going on there, but you don't have a plan? And now three coaches have turned you down. You got to have a plan, man, and they don't have a plan. I don't know what the hell they're going to do.
The Knicks certainly have some work to do. On the flip side, when considering there appears to be some dysfunction in New York, that opens the door for the Sixers to possibly make their move up the ladder in the East.
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