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Evan & Tiki

Evan and Tiki Short: Windhorst says Jeff Van Gundy is a Name to Watch

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Is an old Knicks coach a legitimate candidate?

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0:00.0

So in talking about hiring a guy with experience or hiring a guy that's won an NBA championship before I mentioned earlier, and I asked, hey, fact check me on this.

0:09.0

Other than Pat Riley and Phil Jackson, has anyone recently won NBA titles in multiple locations?

0:16.1

And the answer is, no, not recently.

0:18.3

In fact, there's only one other guy in the history of the sport

0:21.3

to have won a championship with two different teams. And you got to go back to the 50s and 60s

0:26.7

with Alex Hannam, who coached the St. Louis Hawks and the Philadelphia 76ers. Oh, yeah, that guy.

0:31.6

Yeah, exactly. Evan, there's only 14 NBA coaches, period, that have won two or more titles. That's unbelievable. If you think about it that way, you're right.

0:39.7

So if you bring in a guy with championship experience like a Michael Malone or a Frank

0:43.9

Vogel or a Mike Boonehauer, because you do have candidates who've won before, they will

0:48.0

be looking to do something unprecedented.

0:49.6

Now, Tommy pointed this out, and it is fair, the Pacers are in the NBA finals, and Rick Carlisle won an NBA

0:55.1

title with the Dallas Mavericks. So he's on the doorstep of doing it, but he's not going to do it.

1:00.0

I also thought of, and you're going to shoot this down, but hear me out, Larry Brown, who won a title

1:04.5

with the Pistons, went to the finals, at least with the Sixers. So he's got close in two different areas. One, a title obviously in one stop.

1:13.1

Is that your way of saying the Nick should bring back, Lowry Brown?

1:14.4

No, I'm not bringing, no.

1:15.1

How old is he now?

1:15.5

That's that?

1:17.0

I don't know.

1:18.9

I haven't heard that name in a while. But still, I think, would you be satisfied with that, Lilliv? So obviously firing Tom Thibito, he falls short, a couple second rounds, gets the Eastern Conference Finals.

1:30.2

You bring in somebody else of retread championship caliber because he won it somewhere else, and he just get to the NBA finals.

1:37.5

Is that good enough?

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