Knicks FIRE head coach Tom Thibodeau | Potential replacements for New York
John Gonzalez and Rip Hamilton join CBS Sports HQ to react to Tom Thibodeau being fired by the New York Knicks.
[00:00:00] John Gonzalez Reaction
[00:06:42] Rip Hamilton Reaction
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CBSSports
WATCH
CBS Sports HQ: https://www.cbssports.com/live/
Paramount Plus: https://www.paramountplus.com
FOLLOW US ON:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/CBSSports/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/cbssports/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/CBSSports
#nba #breakingnews #newyorkknicks #tomthibodeau
43 Comments
Go get Mike Malone. A Queens, NY native and championship coach.
Goober franchise making goober decisions
Stephen A SMith the next head coach
why
Horrible Move This Will Blow Up In Thier Faces Watch Never Going Back To The ECF Ever Again
Maybe Knicks Should Go After Sam Cassell He’s Available
2 years too late. Knicks still gonna be trash.
I love everyone keeps saying “end game adjustments” none of these ridiculous firings have worked the bucks started this bullshit with bud and griffin and how’s that worked? That Cavs tried it and still lost in the 2nd round in 5😂
I dunno … Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Are Knicks fans okay with a full rebuild? What about the more likely scenario that they underachieve worse? All I know is that the team never seemed as consistent and stable these past few seasons since the 1990s. 🫤
Let’s get one thing straight, it doesn’t matter who the knicks bring in, the Pacers were just BETTER. I’m a Knick fan but never saw the Knicks beating Indiana. Let’s hope next season will be a Knick year.
It’s Mike Malone’s job if he wants it! Mark Jackson would be dope tho🔥 lol
Here Comes New KNICKS Head Coach Jay Wright. 😮
#WhatTheHaliburton
Get Malone as coach and trade for Durant. Set the city on fire! 🚒
I agree with the firing of the couch, no one blows a 8 point lead with 36 seconds left on the clock. They should kept fouling them so they would only get 2 points at a time and not two three point bombs.
Bring back JVG
Knicks are gonna knick like always, this is such a dumb move.
Nobody wants KD😂😂😂 soft ass 40 year old emotional pissy
Spike Lee for coach. Grown men making millions and they can’t play a whole game?
The days of stars stacking over rip, depth is way more valuable.
Stopped listening when Rip said the Knicks should get Devon Booker. How they gonna get him? Kidnapping? What they'd have to trade for him would leave them as a lottery team after
kenny the jet smith
What are the Knicks doing??
The only way Tom Thibodeau doesn't get fired is if his team beat the Pacers and made a final appearance 😳 NBA coaches can lose their Job no matter what on their resume 🤯
Too bad. Tibbs did a really good job. Well, Towns got him fired twice 😂😂😂.
What a silly move. Back to irrelevance for NY
The fact this is how the administration treats Thibs for bringing the team to ECF after 25 years is so crazy. Any analyst, reporter, or fan who says otherwise clearly didn't watch the season I watched. Yes, I curse my coach out but know my team and coach is the reason we got Here. THANK YOU Thibs. TRULY.
Thibs is not the right coach for this personnel. He is a DEFENSIVE coach. The Knicks are a poor defensive team. His offense lacks imagination and is easy to exploit in the playoffs. Thibs overplays his guys and underutilizes his bench — as was his Chicago & Minnesota stints.
Don’t bring kd he’s A team destroyer too much drama no way
No way Knicks must stay away from Kevin Durant
If the Knicks want to make a big is for Gianni’s
Johnny Bryant
No KD
Thibbs needed to be Fired! He refused to use & develop his bench. You can't use your bench, especially in the playoffs, only because your starters are burnt out!
How can Thibbs explain away, why he didnot use Mitch in the 2nd half of the last two games against Indiana? Is he kidding me, no no no, he had to go.
If we trade Kat, we must use him to go after Giannis and start Mitch Robinson.
Fresh off their deepest playoff run in 25 years, the New York Knicks fired coach Tom Thibodeau on Tuesday.
The decision comes three days after the Knicks were ousted from the Eastern Conference finals in six games by the Indiana Pacers, their longtime rivals. But it also comes after New York advanced further than expected with a relatively new core of players, knocking out the defending champion Boston Celtics in the second round.
Thibodeau, who surpassed Pat Riley earlier this season to rank fourth on the franchise list in victories, led the Knicks to back-to-back 50-win seasons for the first time since 1995. He'd been, by far, the club's most successful coach over the past two-plus decades and signed a three-year extension with the team just last summer.
"Our organization is singularly focused on winning a championship for our fans," team president Leon Rose said in a statement. "This pursuit led us to the decision to inform Tom Thibodeau that we've decided to move in another direction. We can't thank Tom enough for pouring his heart and soul into each and every day of being the New York Knicks head coach.
"… Ultimately, we made the decision we feel is best for our organization moving forward. Tom will always be part of our Knicks family and we truly wish him nothing but the best in the future."
Thibodeau had a lengthy history with the Knicks, dating back to the 1990s, when he was an assistant coach under Jeff Van Gundy. Rick Brunson, one of Thibodeau's assistant coaches, played for those Knick teams and often brought his son, Jalen — now the franchise's superstar — to practices and games.
After the club's season-ending defeat in Indiana, Jalen Brunson was asked about Thibodeau's job status.
"Is that a real question right now? You just asked me if I believe he's the right guy? Yes. Come on."
The Knicks upset the Celtics despite losing all four of their games to the club during the regular season — with three of those losses coming by double digits — and despite fielding an overhauled group.
The team's front office sent out five first-round picks for Brooklyn wing Mikal Bridges before dealing Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to Minnesota for All-NBA center Karl-Anthony Towns. The swaps left the Knicks with a bit less depth but one of the most talented starting fives in the association.
As such, Thibodeau — long known for playing his starters big minutes, even as the league moves toward using rest more in this load-management era — leaned heavily on his starting five, playing them far more than any other five-man group in the NBA.
New York was the veteran coach's third head coaching stop in the NBA. Before the Knicks, he coached the Chicago Bulls (2010-15) and the Minnesota Timberwolves(2016-19).
He has a .579 career win percentage as a head coach, the highest by any coach without a Finals appearance in NBA history (minimum 300 games coached), according to ESPN Research.
Change the coach do not trade bridges or hart must better bring back to the roster donte divincenso to the "true villanova boys" and the best hire the former coach of the villanova wildcats "coach jay wright"lets go Knocks!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Put some respect on Ron Thibodaux name. Great coach. Loves the game.
Bring back VanGundy! Let Charles Oakley back in the building. Go get Malik Monk for the bench and Cam Thomas to start. Amongst other moves.
DUMBEST franchise in the COUNTRY, just like the Bucks. WHY do you fire a coach that literally led you to the conference finals?
I hope Josh Hart goes with him…
It’s more about the players not honoring the chance they got, not the coach. It’s he’s game plan works for that reason you got that far, now go there and execute. But Naah, everyone is trying hard to blame the coach