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Welcome to the X's NOS live show slash podcast on a special edition, I suppose, following some momentous news you may or may not have heard by now.

I'm joined, of course, by the great detailed junkie, the defender of Julius, the doctor of jump shots.

Might he soon be the defender of Johnny?

We'll have to see.

We will.

But here we are.

Many hours or a day or so, whatever it is,

after the firing of head coach of the New York Knicks for the last five seasons,

Tom Tibido.

Kind of wild that we're here, although not surprising, I don't think.

Maybe in timing it was surprising.

But it still feels kind of wild to be after a half decade of that man at the helm.

He's now gone.

It is vacant.

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