Inside the Knicks' Locker Room: The Secret Reasons Behind the Coaching Shake-Up! With Frank Isola | BT & Sal

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Sal Licata and NBA guest Frank Isola discussed the New York Knicks' controversial decision to fire head coach Tom Thibodeau, with Isola contending it was an emotional move by owner James Dolan, disregarding Thibodeau's recent success in leading the team to the conference finals. They debated the player-coach dynamic, the role of Jalen Brunson's father as an assistant, and potential coaching replacements like Jeff Van Gundy and Jason Kidd, while Isola cautioned against hiring inexperienced candidates given the Knicks' elevated expectations. Isola also defended the players' post-loss partying, emphasizing the end of a long season and the difference in media scrutiny compared to past eras. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.1	S network for Frank, dude, you have any more job? You're going to be putting your hat in the ring for the
0:34.7	Knicks head coaching job? I could definitely use the money.
0:38.4	I like how your producer gave me the good walk-up music, too.
0:41.7	That's a producer that's thinking.
0:43.2	There you go.
0:43.7	He was paying attention.
0:44.5	All right, Frank, let's get right into it.
0:45.9	First, I want to get your take.
0:47.0	I've heard some reports.
0:48.0	I've talked to some people. feel like this decision to move on from Tom Fibito was all Leon Rose, not James Zorn?
0:54.9	No, oh, come on. Leon Rose was Tom's age and he's been his friends for 30 years and
1:01.6	Leon is very conservative by nature. So you're telling me, after the Knicks made it to their
1:07.0	first conference finals in 25 years, the first hire that Leon Rose ever made,
1:11.8	he thought, you know what, we probably need to get rid of this guy.
1:14.8	Now, if they had meetings over like a week and things settled down a little bit and maybe
1:20.7	two, three weeks after the season, maybe that's something different.
1:23.6	I think everyone was pretty emotional.
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