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Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. I'm Chris Vernon. Joining me is he does every Tuesday from the Ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor aka Kevin O'Conflict aka Kevin O'Bomber aka Kevin O'Concert aka Kevin O'Candyland. Kevin O'Connor.

You just rattle them off Chris I love it. How are you doing? It was a year ago. Maybe a little less. Here you go.

anniversary fired Tom Tibidot on this very program. And then came back and said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I was a little rash. I was the fast forward.

I guess all great things come to an end as the Tom Tibidot era in Minnesota is now done. And the way it all, I guess the timing of it all was what was shocking to me.

I would love to see if Elias could look this up. And if any, I wonder if any coaches ever been fired after a 22 point victory.

Usually they at least wait for you to lose. But when you get fired after a 22 point victory, that's just the ultimate.

This has nothing to do with performance. We just don't like you anymore. For sure. I mean, like we saw with Dwayne Casey that a coach can be fired even after winning coach of the year.

Right. I think maybe it was just about the timing about about doing it. Then a matter of they won our lawsuit game.

Because really does it. I mean, it's churned. It's about the process and about how the team feels things are going. So now and firing Tom Tibidot in early January.

You get a couple months to look at a 32 year old head coach in term had coach and Ryan Saunders son of flip Saunders. So you get a look at him.

And you get a jump star done. Maybe talking to other candidates, Adrian Ward-Nowski. And I've heard the same reported that Fred Hoyberg is a top candidate for the Tim Wolves.

Wode also reported Monti Williams. So from Minnesota, they get a jump start looking at Saunders as well as thinking about other candidates instead of riding it out with Tib's.

Because you also get to see how this offense might look with someone else running it with a more modern take.

And now we saw why Tib's wanted to hang on to Jimmy Butler, right?

Yeah. I mean, it would help him keep his job. Right. You know, if you're the coach slash GM.

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