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Could a familiar face be the Knicks next head coach?
Could a familiar face be the Knicks next head coach? | The Big Number
Yahoo Sports contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh and NBA writer Dan Devine discuss New York's search for its next leader after the dismissal of Tom Thibodeau and why former associate head coach Johnnie Bryant may be the favorite for the job. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Another team is trying to win it all next year, maybe.
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The New York Knicks were not happy with Tom Thibodeaux's job presumably, uh, obviously, is that the fact that they just let him go on Tuesday, uh, Tom Thibodeau out as the New York Knicks head coach.
I've written about it, you've written about it.
Um, this is a really interesting story.
The fact that it was so soon after the Eastern Conference, uh, Defeat against the Indiana Pacers, it lends me to believe that they have someone in mind, right?
It lends me to believe that like, look, we have our guy that we really want to pursue here and we wanna get him before some other team does, but I wonder, Dan.
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Of the candidates that we've thrown out there, whether it's Jay Wright or Michael Malone, or as I, I put in there as kind of a, could you imagine if they hired John Calipari uh out of the college ranks, Carl Anthony Towns is former coach very close with the uh with Leon.
Rose and World Wide West.
Johnny becomes a very interesting candidate here, Johnny Bryant, uh, Mark Stein also reporting that Jason Kidd and Eme Udoka also said to have interest drawing from the New York Knicks, but the Johnny Bride story, uh, I feel like.
Do you fire Tom Thibodeaux and then hire his associate, his assistant coach, worried that maybe the Suns would get him first?
Do you make that move to preempt uh Johnny Bryant getting hired by the Phoenix Suns?
I don't know, but this is getting very interesting.
