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We bring in Vincenzo Goodwill Jr.

The 3rd, Yahoo Sports Senior NBA writer, host of the Good Word podcast on Yahoo Sports.

Ball Don't Lie.

Sirius XM NBA host as well.

He'll be covering the NBA finals.

All right, here's your question.

Tom Chibito was fired because...

The New York Knicks wanted to fire me.

I think we try to make things a lot more complicated than they are.

If you make the Eastern Conference Finals in a year where nobody expected you to get out of the second round,

regardless of the circumstances, and you take out the defending champions in a decisive six game series,

and that's not enough for you to keep your job that meant that nothing

was going to enable you to keep your job you can talk about the nix roster and how top heavy

they are they are a second apron team and i think that is something dan that we don't talk about

as much when you look at the phoenix suns and the milwaukee bucks some of those teams that are in those second aprons, those very speculative investment heavy, you know, parts of the CBA, the expectations are championship. And even if the roster doesn't look like a championship, the investment of the money says, we expect you to deliver a championship now maybe tom thibito took this team

as far as it can go and you need a more innovative offensive mind you know there was a lot of chemistry

issues it looked like between carl anthony thomas and jaylon brunson but i asked you dan when was the

last time you've seen an NBA champion that had defensive issues at the point

of attack with his point guard and at the rim with its center and you won a championship?

I don't know if God himself did have worked the magic that Tom Fibito was asked to work in

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