Evan and Tiki Short: Teams have won NBA Finals After Firing Head Coache's

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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More NBA team's have had immediate success after firing their successful head coaches than you may realize

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0:00.0	Before we get to your calls on the future of Tom Fibito, there are a few examples over the last couple of years where it works, like getting rid of a highly successful head coach and then it directly leading to winning an NBA championship.
0:14.9	Just to give you full symmetry, let's go back 21 years when the Detroit Pistons got to the Eastern Conference Finals. They lost the
0:23.3	Eastern Conference Finals to my New Jersey Nets. And then Rick Carlisle was gone. And he was replaced
0:29.2	by Larry Brown. And in 2004, the Detroit Pistons won the NBA Championship in the process
0:36.2	pulling off one of the biggest upsets in NBA
0:38.4	finals history.
0:39.8	Back in 2016, we mentioned this briefly before.
0:42.6	David Blatt was coming off bringing the calves to the NBA finals.
0:46.7	They were 30 and 11.
0:49.2	And they fired him.
0:51.0	Ty Lou got the job.
0:52.7	The Cavaliers won the NBA championship.
0:55.6	Ultimate player coach.
0:57.4	Ultimate, and really...
0:58.6	Because the player selected the coach.
1:00.4	And that is one of the big differences here.
1:02.5	Not in the case of the Pistons, but certainly in the case of Cleveland, like the players,
1:06.4	specifically the player in LeBron James, had a preference.
1:10.2	If we care about player preference, I think Jaylen Brunson clearly wants Tom Thibbido back,
1:15.4	which is a part of what's convincing me to do it.
1:17.3	The other example were the Raptors.
1:19.3	Dwayne Casey, I think was the coach of the year?
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