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Evan & Tiki

Best of the Knicks on WFAN: Coaching Search Hurdles

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Boomer and Gio are still trying to make sense of the Tom Thibodeau firing. Plus, Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart address Thibodeau on their podcast; Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata react to the messiness of the coaching search and if there is a way to still get Jason Kidd; Craig Carton joins BT & Sal to talk Knicks; Evan & Tiki talk to Ian Begley on the Knicks coaching search and react to reports Knicks players questioned some of the coaching staff’s preparation for games.

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0:00.0

Maybe there's stuff we don't know.

0:03.7

I hope there's stuff we don't know.

0:05.4

But the longer this goes on, and I was originally believed that Jim Dolan hadn't done this on his own,

0:12.3

the longer this goes on with the search happening the way it is,

0:14.9

it feels like this was more of a Dolan thing than an organizational decision or a Leon Rose thing.

0:18.9

And they tried to cover that up in the statement.

0:20.9

That's what it feels like to me.

0:21.5

I still wonder about the assistant coaches because they're all still here.

0:26.7

Yeah.

0:27.3

And, you know, depending on who they hire, you know, if it's an outside guy, which is outside,

0:34.3

what I mean outside guy, a guy that has no connection to the Knicks or this

0:38.4

group of coaches or this front office, meaning that it could be, like I say, Mike Malone. Maybe Mike

0:45.4

would want to take it because he'd want to get back into coaching and accept the coaching staff

0:49.5

and everything the way it is and be amenable to working with the front office when it comes

0:54.1

to coaching the team like

0:55.1

Tom Thibodeau was. But I just think that that is a recipe for disaster. That means the guy is just

1:01.6

taking a job to take a job and not doing it the way that he wants to do it in order to win a championship.

1:07.3

Yeah. I mean, right now it feels like we're going to be looking back on this and saying, man, what a terrible, terrible decision.

1:13.4

Like, this is what you fired Tibbs for this?

1:15.6

And by the way, if this team has a sloppy regular season, I mean, it is going to get ugly.

1:20.9

And a sloppy regular season might be winning 45 games as opposed to 50.

1:25.1

You would go from just absolute madness after game 6 of beating the Celtics

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