Breaking Knicks News: The Knicks Hire Mike Brown As Their New Head Coach! | Live Fan Reactions
All right, here we go. Salute to Nicks Nation on this Wednesday afternoon. Another edition of Nicks Fan TV Live, the number one show for the fans by the fans, where we talk about Nick’s news, Nick’s rumors, and the only Nicks show with live caller reactions. Today’s show, we got breaking news. We have ourselves a coach. And we’ve been talking about this all week now. His name was heating up as the days went by and they finally locked it in. Mike Brown becomes the 32nd head coach of the New York Nickers taking over for Tom Tibido New York. Let me know your thoughts on this. Call us up on the KFTV Discord. We got to talk about this one. Mike Brown is locked in. How do you guys feel about it, man? rate the higher in the chat. One being trash, five being facts. But either way, man, we’re going to break it all down for you here on the number one show for the fans by the fans. Salute to the replay gang. Salute to our loyal loyal franchise channel members. And remember to like, share, and subscribe to the channel. Let’s get into it. Let’s get into it. All right, man. Let’s get right down to business, man. Salute to everybody in the chat. Happy Wednesday. Took me a little while to to start the engines up, man. Had to make sure I’m prepped, get my water and all of that and and lock in on this one. Mike Brown taking over for Tibs as the 32nd head coach of the New York Knicks. The two-time coach of the year, most recently winning the coach of the year uh title in uh with the Sacramento Kings in his first season with the Sacramento Kings. Um, my reaction to it, mixed bag. Point blank period. Mixed bag. He is a retread coach. He, yes, he’s been fired from a number of of stops, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and the Sacramento Kings. And so, there’s a little bit of of hesitancy there, right? It’s like, what are we what are we getting ourselves into? So, it’s a little bit of a mixed bag for me. Why I’m going to remain optimistic is number one, I believe offensively he can unlock a few aspects of this Knicks offense that Tibs did not. And we’ll get into that in a little bit. So, I believe he can take this offense up another level also depending on who he puts on his staff. Number two, every coaching situation is different. That’s why I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. I’ve said this on a number of show. I’ve said this a number of times and I truly believe it. There’s a lot of inputs that goes into the success of a head coach. Mo first and foremost, who’s the talent on the roster? I think this Knicks roster is very talented. Starting with the captain, Jaylen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns, Mal Bridges, OG. I like the pieces that they have. And as they just finished two games short of the Eastern Conference Finals, no guarantees for next season, but I believe they have the talent to get to the chip, especially when the when the East is wide open. So, every situation is different. What is the system that Mike Brown is going to deploy here? Is he going to bring over the system that he had at Sacramento that unlocked a lot of Damonte Sabonis who was playing the five? Carl Anthony Towns, a better offensive player, a better shooter, a great passer in his own right. How does that open things up offensively in a five out system? So, the system, how they respond to it, the players, the bench, how does he deploy the bench, what are the rotations going to be looking like? I think there’s a lot that’s going to go into the success or the failure of Mike Brown before I can just say, “Yo, this was a bad hire.” We can go on and on and on down history with coaching decisions that look great on paper and flopped. Looked decent on paper and they won a championship. I point to Rick Carile. He’s shown the door in Detroit. Larry Brown comes in, they win the championship. Rick Carlile moves down to Dallas, they win the championship. He moves to Indiana, they get to a championship. Larry Brown comes to the Knicks, complete disaster. I I think we we have to give this keep an open mind here, give it the benefit of the doubt, and just wait and see how this thing plays out. Now, why did they go with Mike Brown over, you know, other candidates that were talked about? This was an exhaustive search, as we know, it took some time. Knicks went through a lot of criticism. They don’t have a plan. What is the plan? This, that, and the third. Couple of things. I think it is safe to assume that Jason Kid was up there near the top of the list. We know the relationship with Brunson, Jason Kid being a point guard, their relationship with Dallas. Clearly, Dallas did not want to let Jason Kid go. So, that ship had sailed. In the meantime, the Knicks did canvas the league, see what coaches would be available. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with the process. They tried to talk to Udoka. The Rockets, as you’d expect, did not release him. Uh, Billy Donovan, not sure why they want to go that route. Hey, maybe bring Billy the hometown kid here. Didn’t go that way. Both of those guys got their extensions. They went Hey, they went to the college level, right? They went to Dawn Staley. first broken hair by NickFan TV. Just a conversation, but I think overall the conversations were had to understand what are these coaches seeing, what are you what what’s trending in your world, how are you approaching things. It’s never a bad thing to turn over every stone even if you have your guys that you have your sights on with whether it’s Jason Kidd. But I believe that they went with a Mike Brown number one the experience factor. This is a pressure cooker situation. The team went two games short of the Eastern Conference Finals. And for next year for this next Knicks head coach, it is finals are bust. We know that this team is going to be under the microscope from summer league on down. Training camp, preseason, who’s doing what? Who’s fitting in? Who’s jelling? It’s going to be the reactions are going to be through the roof with this team next year amidst a heavy heavy pressure cooker environment. So, they needed a coach that can handle that. And that is why a guy like, you know, a younger guy, I know a lot of you guys are like, “What happened with a Johnny Bryant?” And I did report here that he had fans in the organization. Even Dolan liked him. But you needed a coach with experience here that could really handle this situation. And a lot of people brought this up and it’s a great point. You know, handling the media is a big part of the job. That’s also where experience comes into play because this head coach, they’re going to be dissected. Every decision that they make is going to be questioned. Now, Mike Brown has come under fire, especially most recently in Sacramento with the way that he’s handled the media and kind of scoffed at things and thrown players under the bus. So, going to be interesting to see in New York, how does he handle that? Cuz things got a little bit quirky there in Sacramento. But nevertheless, I think for the experience factor, that’s why they went with with the decision that that that’s why they went with Mike Brown and made that decision. What happened to Taylor Jenkins? From what I heard, things kind of tapered off. Brown made his impressions and he got the job. He he gained the edge over Taylor Jenkins. you guys that asked and Brown was a guy we mentioned as soon as they they as soon as they they fired Tibs we mentioned Brown as a potential candidate. Um Mike Malone, some of you guys what happened Mike Malone. Look, I told you guys even when Tibs was under contract was when Tibs was still coaching the Knicks are not going to be looking in the direction of Mike Malone. I believe there’s some bad blood there. They also viewed him as a Tibs clone and so from what I was told there was no chance he was he was coming in here even for an interview and it played out that way. Mark Jackson, look Jackson Hive, it’s time to stand down. I don’t think Look, I I like Mark. I don’t think there’s any chance he becomes a head coach in the NBA ever again. I don’t know whatever reason. Is he black ballalled? You guys be the judge of that. I don’t have all the all the intel on why Mark Jackson is not selected, but he’s always the name that comes up. So, here we have it, man. Mike Brown, as I said, um, two-time coach of the year. Two-time coach of the year. Okay, TM, I see that. We’ll get the Discord graphic up. No problem. Uh, two-time coach of the year. If we go through some of his stops, went 240 and 98 with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thank you, LeBron James. He’s got a 4 54 and 304 regular season record which is about 600 and a 50 and 40 playoff record 56% mostly. He went 41 and 29 with the Lakers, 85 and 45 with the Dubs under Steve Kerr and then 88 and 132 with the Sacramento Kings. So like what happened in Sacramento? That is what we we’re going to be asking. And I’m going to have James Ham. He’s a beatw writer for the Sacramento Kings. He’s coming on. We’ve been exchanging messages. We want to do our deep dives now on Mike Brown and what’s going on with him, his system, his philosophy, the good, bad, and ugly, pros and cons. So, he’s going to be joining us tomorrow night. So, make sure you join us tomorrow night when we get the perspective from the Sacramento side. But what happened there? His first year, they’ve got the number one offense in the NBA, a 118.6 6 offensive rating in the 22 23 year. That’s when he won the coach of the year. And then from there, things just kind of spiraled. Second year, not so great. And then the third year, they go 13 and 23 and he’s shown the door after a fivegame skid. Now, is that a Sacramento thing? Because as we know with Monty McNair in Sacramento, I’m not sure if there’s any other owner who comes under fire more than uh the you know like you know James Dolan always comes under fire but Monty McNair does as well for his decision-m. So was that a knee-jerk reaction from Monty McNair? Again I’m going to ask James Ham and for some of you Sacramento Kings fans that might be tapping in here I’d love to hear from you on that. What really happened there in Sack Town? We need answers on that. Okay. But, you know, another thing about Mike Brown that the reason I think that he’s gotten the job is you you still need that guy with experience. The guy, yes, he can be known as a players coach. Now, don’t ask Keon Ellis this. He is wellliked around the league, but a guy that’s going to push. A guy that’s going to try to get the best out of his players and hold guys accountable. You still need that. So, in that way, you didn’t really depart too far from Tibs. But, I did stress this on the show and and we did put this out on social media in terms of what the Knicks are going to be looking for here with the next head coach, maximizing the roster talent. You could make the argument and say, “Yes, the team had a it was fifth ranked offense in the league and all that.” Yeah, they had their bright spots on the Tibs last year. Let’s give Tibs a lot of credit. In the playoffs, those things kind of grinded to a halt. And it just seemed very, yes, playoff defenses are hard, gritty, but but the Knicks offense just seemed like it was just it was a grind. every possession. There was no cohesion there. Yes, they they relied on their talents and and the isolation brilliance of a Brunson and the Towns, but it just didn’t have any more flow to it. So, they want to see this next head coach and Mike Brown be able to enhance the chemistry and the cohesiveness amongst this roster and specifically with Macau Bridges. Should he still be here? Carl Anthony Towns and Jaylen Brunson. And from the people I speak to, they feel like Mike Brown can do the job. Whether you guys agree or disagree, time will tell whether he’s the guy for the job. They feel like Mike Brown can be the guy to enhance this roster and get the most out of it. Because remember, you you have a sizable investment now in this roster. The new CBA rules make it very difficult to build So they want that. Secondly, they want someone who’s more collaborative with the front office. I was told that even during during the coaching search and during the interviews that these coaching candidates, they were going to meet not just with the front office but even with the medical staff. They want toptobottom communication and collaboration. Not a knock on Tibs, but evidently they didn’t feel like that was present and effective last year or on during the Tibs tenure. So, we’ll see. But certainly, they want that. And Leon Rose, even when Leon Rose in the few times that he was on record, whether it was the canned interviews, the prepared responses, whatever it is, he did mention that when he first got here, what he was looking for in a head coach, but clearly they didn’t see that enough from Tibs. Last point of emphasis, last point in terms of what they’re looking for. They are driving home player development heavy in this with this new head coach. They want player development. They understand what they’re facing in terms of the uh the new CBA, the limitations that come with it in terms of how you build your roster. So they want a revolving door of good prospects, veterans, so on and so forth, and they want to enhance their depth. They want to enhance the depth. So they’re looking for a coach here that is going to be able to do that. Now, as it relates to the the bench, as it relates to the staff, from what I was told, look, they want to be able to bring in some of the best in the biz, surround Mike Brown with some good coaches, some good staff. Again, player development being the focus. And what’s being reported right now is that what’s being reported right now is that uh they’re look they want James Burggo as probably the associate head coach. This is coming from Mark Stein. James Berago. Now he’s saying New Orleans preference is for Burggo to stay with Willie Green as a top assistant. So translation, they want compensation probably. Time will tell. James Verago, uh, having the reputation for being a good offensive mind and play development coach. Let’s see if they’re able to get him from the New Orleans Pelicans. So, like I said, man, I I’m keeping an open mind here. I’m keeping an open mind here and um and let’s see where it goes. Call me up on the KFTV Discord. Let me know what you guys think to one of our sponsors of today’s show at LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn Jobs, man. Go to linkedin.com. Use our code KFTV to post your job for free. If you guys are are operating small to mediumsiz businesses, LinkedIn jobs is the way to go and tap into the social network as well as the extensive search function. So, shout out to our sponsors of today at LinkedIn jobs, Tommy Beer, Mike Brown, one of 24 coaches in NBA history with 450 plus career season wins and 50 plus playoff wins. Okay. All right. Let’s read some of your super chats are coming. We got 3,000 people in here on the checkin. If you guys are new in the chat, leave us a hashtag new while shout you guys out. I want to shout out Let’s read some of the super chats here. Let me get my new my new soundboard up here. We got the new soundboard coming in just in time for the off season. Hang on, man. What happened to my soundboard here, TM? Let me let me get my Discord in order. My Discord’s kind of uh kind of aggy here. Hang on. First off, okay, here we go. Let me get my soundboard in here. First super chat. $10 from the art man, formerly known as Steve, says, “Mike Breezy, the coach. Knicks didn’t believe Tibs could evolve. They went in a different direction. Will there be a press conference or is Leon going to put out a written press?” I would have to assume there’s going to be a press conference, but stay tuned. Stay tuned on that one. Who else we got here? We have a $5 super chat. Connor KFTV Island franchise channel member Connor, we got your uh against all odds snapback headed over there to you in Ireland, man. We just shipped that out yesterday and he’s the number one on the on the chat leaderboard. Says, “Would would be happy if Dawn lands on the staff if we can’t get Barago. Defense needs serious work. Offense itself won’t win. Let’s go Nick. Salute CP. Yeah. Uh, look, I mean, on this Staley thing, as we mentioned, the conversations were more exploratory in nature. I don’t think she’s planning to leave South Carolina for the NBA and and certainly for nothing less than a head coaching gig. So, I don’t I I wouldn’t expect her to be sitting on the staff when she she basically runs everything there down there in South Carolina. TM says $50 and up. Super Chats gets the double bang. Absolutely. Okay, who else we got here? Super chats coming in. Salute to Giant Nick franchise channel member and a uh $5 super chat says, “Good hire. Great offensive minded coach will unlock the offense. We’ll fix the three-point defense which was the biggest weakness. Put a great staff together around him.” Yeah, like he like you and like Connor said, the defense still needs to be addressed. Yes, we want to make sure that we are maximizing the offense given the inherent weaknesses skill sets wise with like Brunson and Towns and you have some you have some holes there. So, yeah, you want to get the most out of your offense, but defensively you still got to be there. So, let’s see. Okay, uh team hashtag new. Who’s who’s this in the chat? I just lost this guy’s chat. Andrew Francis, salute to you, says, “Will will Rick Brunson be on the staff still?” I think so. I I I think I think there’s a good chance of that. But honestly, I also think it it’s being overblown like what people are kind of like bugging out, you know, is Rick still going to be there? Look, he’s he’s the father of the captain. He’s a coach in his own right. And the staff these days, I mean, we had Mochi in the fifth row. Like, he got like six or seven staff members. So, you know, from a player development standpoint, whatever it takes to make sure that the captain is happy, you do it. So, I don’t I don’t really I have no issues with uh with Rick being the coach here. I I have no issues whatsoever. I’m not so sure why that’s a big deal to some, but hey, to each his own. I’m not really worried about that. Okay. All right. Um, let’s let me make sure. Shout out to the franchise channel members. Freddy Solomon, welcome to the show. Apostle in the making, welcome to the show as well. He says, “Even my wife, who is not a big sports fan, was asking why the whole offense just depended on Brunson. And also, is this a win for the minutes police?” Minutes police are back. I think it is. I think it is. You know what I mean? The minutes police did go back and forth during the Tibs era. We did. But I think I think it is. I think it is a a uh a win for the men’s police. I do. They they want the rotations expanded now. Is Mike Brown going to do that? Let’s see. But they do want the rotations expanded. And like I said, they want player development. Doesn’t mean all these guys are going to be playing like like JD said on the show when we were talking about Clarkson, doesn’t mean all these guys are going to be jumping in the rotations early, but they want they want to see these guys get a look. Got to they they want they want the bench developed. Hey and Nate, how you feeling in the chat? Okay, let’s get to the phones, man. Hear what the people got to say on the afternoon show. If you guys are on the grind today, man, on the lunchtime grind, throw a hashtag grind in the chat. We got 3,000 people on the check-in. Salute everybody watching. Nicks Nation Worldwide, we salute you. Okay, let’s start off with my guy LD. LD, how you feeling, man?
Good.
How you doing, first of all? You good?
Uh, yeah. Never a dull moment, man. Never a dull moment. Had to drop
had to drop everything I was doing, but I was expecting this. You know, I put it out there last night that that this was coming. So, you know,
and your post is what got me even more excited about this being a possibility.
Yeah.
Not be. So, first things first, fourtime champion as an assistant coach under two of the greatest coaches in the history of the game. That’s already a positive, right? I think the default setting is we all know the offense is going to be great. As we discussed last time, the the offense is going to be great. Defense is going to be worked on. But the most important thing though are the bullet points that you listed that the Knicks front office is emphasizing.
Yes.
It just that’s that to me that’s most what’s most important, especially in this new NBA under this new CBA. Leon Rose and his teams understands. Yes, the head coach is the head coach, but you need to build out everyone who’s going to participate in us getting as much as we can out of this roster that we have. I think that’s the that gave me comfort reading that yesterday because I’m like, “Yeah, Leon is not only focused on getting us a good roster, but they’re also focused on building out a great Knicks franchise as a whole.” And that is super promising,
you know? It is super promising. I love it. Yeah, I I agree, man. Like I said, I’m I’m gonna approach this with an open mind. I think we all should.
You know, the all the championships aren’t won in the offseason. There’s a lot that has to go right. Let’s start with the players health.
You know, look look at a guy like Jared Jackson Jr. He goes out there, gets the bag, and the next day he he goes under the knife with turf toe. What happened to him? I I saw just injury. I didn’t see what happened. Is he out?
Uh he’s got turf toe. I don’t know how long that injury takes to recover, but he just had surgery. M you know
buddy.
Yeah. Interesting.
I mean, right at it core though with the Mike Brown thing, we’ve already talked about, you know, the the the front office’s contributions and their focus, which is great, but also the floor of Mike Brown is high enough of a starting point. So, that’s also good. You know, again, we’ve emphasized that the the offense is going to look amazing. And I know that, you know, the common denominator is defense wins championships, which is very, very true. But you’ve never seen a championship team that is only defense. The Houston Rockets had amazing defense this year. They had zero offense, you know. So, it’s defenses win championships with elite offenses as well, you know. So, this is a good starting point, but again, those three bullet points that you listed that the front office is focused on building out not just a core roster, but a core coaching staff. Great start, you know. Yeah, I’m optimistic. For sure. For sure, man. Salute to uh salute to you, LD. Definitely appreciate it. All right, that’s our guy LD in the chat, man. Rate that call in the chat. One being trash, five being facts. That’s our guy LD, the resident KFTV caller. So again, you know, within these next couple of days, we’re going to be doing some researchheavy editions here. And namely, why exactly was Mike Brown fired from Sacramento to begin with? He won the coach of the year two years ago. Two, three years ago. This is coach of the year. I mean, Tibs won and two and he was shown the door. So, maybe it’s just, you know, short patience overall. But let’s listen to a little bit of Monty McNair, Kings owner, in terms of why they fired Mike Brown. This was this past season. Kings were at 13 and 23. Let’s listen to a little bit of this. Here we go. Oh, do we have this on mute here? What’s going on here? Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. What’s happening here? What’s happening here? Oh, I got this on mute. Okay, apologies on that. Okay, let’s go.
Still have some work to do, but want to thank uh Wes, Phil, Paul, our front office for uh for all the work. We all know what Dearan’s meant to this franchise uh for the last seven, eight years. Um some incredible moments. Kevin obviously also a part, wish them the best. Jordan, his time here,
uh a little shorter, but great to get to know him. He’s going to have a a bright future in this league as well. So, uh thank you to them. On the flip side, we’re excited to welcome Zach and Sidi here. Um, I think Zach’s um, you know, just an incredible talent shot making.
Um, I think that’s it for my intro, so let’s go. Yeah, Monty, it’s been 40 plus days since Mike Brown was fired, and this the first time we’re we’re getting to talk to you. um what went into the decision to not hold a press conference before. By the way, I think this is James Ham asking the question. James is going to be joining us tomorrow night to talk about this. Here we go.
Today and sort of the even that playing into one of the reasons why Darren Fox was uncomfortable moving forward uh because he felt he was left out in front of the to to answer some of the media questions. Yeah. So, uh you know, I’d say at the time obviously we were struggling as a team. Um, you know, Mike Mike’s done some incredible things for this this organization and um, you know, we all saw what he did the past two plus years for us. So, um, you know, I have nothing bad to say about Mike. I don’t want to come up here and and do that. Um, you know, I respect everything he’s done. At the same time, we’re trying to turn our season around. We’re a month out from the trade deadline and uh, we’ve got to figure out now with an interim coach how we’re going to go turn this thing around. That was the primary focus. Um, you know, I knew I’d come up here and speak to you guys at some point, but that was, you know, it was all hands on deck for that. And so, so far we’ve gotten oursel back into the mix. So, um, you know, I think we obviously have some more work to do there. Um, uh, on De’Aran, uh, you know, I think incredible player. At the same time, uh, we’ve offered multiple extensions that’s been public. um and you know in addition to public and private conversations uh that happened before um that decision on the coaching chain. So um you know I think uh you I’ll speak more on that but um you know for us uh it became clear that there was no pathway there for for a long-term agreement and um so that’s also why we’re here today. money, I I would just like to, you know, say this. I asked this question, you know, because yes, it’s been way out since December 28th since we spoke. I mean, well, you know, since the firing of Mike Brown, many of us who was in that that gym, you know, spoke to him and then the next thing you know, he’s going to the airport. He gets a message that he’s been uh he’s separated, you know, from his organization.
Yeah. Sentence to dirty business. Let him go to the airport and clip you know, due respect, why did it take so long for you to come out and just say, “Hey, you know, this is what we did and this is why we did it and we’re moving on.” Why did it take that long?
Yeah, I think I as I just answered.
All right. Yeah, it’s it’s a lot of babble for Monty McN. Basically, what he was saying was that look, man, they weren’t meeting expectations. What happened with the De’Aran Fox thing? Was it Dearon Fox and the contract extension threatening to leave? Was there friction there between De’Arren Fox and Mike Brown? De’Arren Fox came out and said, “Look, that’s all cap. We never had any any real issue.” So, I’m not sure. But what Monty McNair was basically saying in in this, you know, all lot of babble there was that there was unmet expectations and they he was not satisfied with the team’s direction. They were 13 and 20. 13 and 18 rather, I said 13 and 23. They were 12th in the west and they sent him to the airport and told him get a one-way flight wherever you going don’t come back this way. Ray Mato Kings the worst run organization in the league. So, you know, you had that situation. A lot of the Kings fans were unhappy with his treatment of Keon Ellis. Now, based on my research, there was Styles make fights. It seems like Mike Brown was not happy with the way Keon Ellis was playing on defense. Maybe he’s too much of a gambler. Wasn’t disciplined enough. Kings fans took umbrage with that. Wanted to see their young scrapper guard back in the lineup. Does he did he learn from it? You know, again, these are all the things that I’m going to be asking um James Ham, who’s more tapped in, who’s more tapped in in the situation. And then did he lose the locker room? And if he lost the locker room in three years, that’s a little bit of a concern. That’s that’s why I’m like, I got to wait and see what the deal is here. I got to wait and see. I understand it. I understand it offensively and all that what he can do potentially, but what was the situation with the players? He had the reputation of throwing guys under the bus. That’s kind of the anti-Tibs. If if you if you uh you know if you know Tibs, you know that he would cover for players, right? What would he what was the Tibs common phrase? The common phrase was that uh the the common phrase was that he’s searching. We’re searching. We’re searching. Right. Tibs never really wanted to throw players under the bus. And they say Mike Brown was doing that in Sacramento. So, let’s see. You know, if he’s here throwing Josh Hart under the bus for not playing defense or Cat or anybody, that might be a little tricky. He’s got to he’s got to walk on eggshells here with with this locker room and how he’s handling the questions here. Here’s another um update. Mark Steines League sources say Denver recently saw permission to interview James Burggo for the top spot on David Adelman’s bench. That request was denied since such a move was deemed lateral. The Pelicans naturally granted New York permission to interview Burggo for its head coaching position. So, I don’t know. This seems like some chess moves by Joe Dumas trying to get some compensation. What do you guys think here? Basically saying that the only the only reason why they let him talk to any team was if he was going for a head coaching position. But if he’s just going to go to be somebody else’s assistant, doesn’t seem like the Pelicans want to budge here on Berago. Very interesting. see see how that plays out. Could they just be looking for draft compensation or what? You guys let me know your thoughts in the chat. Let me read some more super chats. Mike Brown, the 32nd head coach of the New York Knicks. How do you guys feel? We got almost 4,000 people in here on the chat. Martin on the on the Facebook says, “Mike Brown has had success wherever he’s coached. Now all the players have to do is buy into the plan and win games. Forget about Tibs. He served his purpose. All right. So So Martin is is on board. Shout out to you, Martin. Okay. All right. Let’s see what uh some more super chats have come in. Salute. $5 super chat. Antonio Ramage says, “Hopefully he teaches these guys how to shoot free throws.” Yeah, that that would be key. That definitely would be key. Shout out to Flashy. Salute to you. He says, “Coaches on the bench going to be more important. Going to be important.” Yeah, we’ll see. We’ll see how that plays out. We just mentioned with Bergo looks like to be a little standstill there. Shout out to Groovy says Nick’s got him in the hot seat already. Damn right. Welcome to New York, Mike Brown. Welcome to New York. Okay, who’s who’s on the checking on the phones? NYK all day. Go ahead and mute your mic. NYK all day. Yeah. Hey, how you doing, CP? I just want to know your opinion on one thing. Just I don’t know if you remember, but like the 15th game of the season or so when the Knicks played like the Nuggets away. I remember it was like an offensive eruption. I think we had like close to 40 assists that game if not 40. I think OG had 40. Towns had 30. It was like a great offensive performance like like nothing we’d seen all season up to that point. Mhm.
And I was just wondering if you think that this new coach Brown if he can like get that from our players like every game cuz I mean we saw that against Denver and it was like complete fluidity. It seemed like these guys have been playing forever. The chemistry was great, the passing, the ball movement, the scoring. We were unguardable and and I know that this team is capable of that with the talent. So I was just wondering if you like think that could become consistent with a new coach or if that was just like a oneoff explosion type performance. I think that’s the goal, man. And appreciate the call. I think that’s the goal. You know, one of the offenses, one of the sets that uh Mike Brown would run on the half court is the Princeton offense, right? It’s another read and react style system and but that it utilizes the bigs. You see how they they got Sabonis out there playmaking, you know, put Towns in that spot. He’s one of the best passing bigs in the league. You put Towns there at the high post and with that Princeton offense, it’s it’s constant motion, it’s back door cuts, it’s constant movement. So, I think that can serve two purposes. Number one, utilizing Towns as that dual threat as a shooter and as a playmaker. You got to step out on him because if you if you let him with the open three, if you let him go with the open three, he’s going to cash it. So, if you stepping out on him, you moving a big if if they go with him at the five. and you and you’re pulling the bigs away from the basket. Then you got the wings cutting. It takes Brunson off the ball so he doesn’t have to grind the ball out. Yeah. I mean that’s that’s also part of like my follow-up question which was just going to be about Pakome Dier. Yeah.
So I think the Knicks they really like
more above the coach like more in the front office. I think they really think he’s going to be like a future like piece of the team. I don’t know about such star or anything like that just with the draft pick with the Aara and all these things like surrounding him with his friend. I don’t know. I feel like they’re really focusing on him for as a long-term project. Do you think Mike Malone is really the guy? Like I’m not really that familiar with the West Coast. I know Mike Brown.
No, Mike Brown. Sorry. Mike Brown. Yeah. Yeah. I’m not really familiar with the West Coast. Do you think like is he the guy that can make Pomeier really take that step? I know he got very limited minutes under tips, but I don’t know if you just think like he can be the one to become like that backup three or that backup two.
Yeah. once Clarkson or whatever if they fall off.
Yeah, look, he he got a limited opportunity last year, I think his development is going to be very important as as a 3 and D wing as maybe a little bit more, he does have when he came in and then one of the things that from the scouts we spoke to and based on the film, one of the things that while we wait for the rest of his game to catch up, he was a good cutter. His offensive awareness seemed to be pretty good. It just the shot was a little bit inconsistent defensively. Obviously, he’s got to get stronger and he’s got to get smarter there. But one thing he can do is cut and make good passes. So maybe that, you know, part of that uh of Mike Brown’s offense can help Pakcom Dier. But look, at only 19 years old, the sky is the limit for him. So we’ll just have to take it one year at a time, starting with summer league, see how much better he’s gotten, and take it from there. But he has a he has a chance in this rotation. Yeah, I completely agree. I mean, I just think I think our floor is pretty low with this new coach. I mean, I felt it was time for Tibs to go. I feel like he got out coached against the Celtics. Even like I think the Celtics, we beat the Celtics cuz the threes weren’t going down. I mean, obviously we were gritty. We’re more gritty than the Celtics and Tatum went down in game five or whatever, but I mean still like I feel like Tibs, he’s very stubborn and he could really make mid teams really good and I feel like the team was too talented for him. So, I feel like the sky’s is the limit for the Knicks and it’s just really exciting. Okay. Appreciate the call, man. Where you calling in from, man?
Yeah. Let’s go next. Uh, Midtown Manhattan.
Midtown. Midtown Manhattan, man. Appreciate the call, man. Tapping in, man. Lunchtime grind. Appreciate.
Have a good one. Love the content, man.
Appreciate you. Appreciate you, man. All right. That was my guy MK all day checking in from Midtown Manhattan. Where you guys checking in from? We got almost 4,000 people in here on YouTube. I don’t even know how much we got on Twitter right now. I got, you know, the console is all over the place between Bleacher Report, Salute, Facebook, Twitter. We are everywhere, man. Wherever you guys at, we are live and direct. And as I said, if you guys aren’t able to catch this show in its totality on video, we’re also available on all audio podcast format. So, make sure that you guys hit the like button, hit the share button, subscribe to the channel. Also, make sure that you are subscribing to the Knicks Fan TV newsletter. It’s free to do so. We keep you updated in your inbox for any relevant Knicks news. We’re not spamming it with anything irre irrelevant, but any Knicks news, any updates, and any KFTV events and updates come straight to your email. So, just go to nickfantv.com, click on newsletter, and you sign right up. And while you’re there at nixfantv.com, we are having our 30% off Fourth of July blowout sale. The entire shop 30% off. So, as I said, man, you can get your against all odds hats. Right now, the t-shirt of the day is the it wasn’t pretty, but it was gritty t-shirt. A hot seller. You can get your rally towels, man. Your for the fans by the fans rally towels. Oh, got it upside down there. It would be It would be good if I had it right side up. For the fans, by the fans rally towels. So, get yours today, man. Nickfantv.com. 30% off. Okay. Oh, man. We got We got people all over the place. Shout out Strong Island. Polus, how are you doing? Long Island, Southeast, Southsoutheast DC, Shaheen, Allah, salute to you. Oh, Washington Heights. Christian, how you doing, man? Delray Beach, Jeff SE’s in Florida. Cooling out. It’s probably hot as hell down there. South Jersey Gman. Salute to the Giants. Blue checking in from Alaska. Okay, we got we worldwide with it, man. Salute to everybody in the Philippines. Everybody in the Philippines is hyped for the new addition of Jordan Clarkson. Brick City, Newark. KJ Frederick, salute. Jay from Bermuda, salute to you. Okay. All right. We are back to it. Um Tommy Beer says, “Uh, the Kings, when Mike Brown won the coach of the year, Kings finished with the eighth best net rating. First time in 15 years they cracked the top 10, used a deep rotation. And 11 different players averaged doubledigit minutes and 15 different players appeared in 25 plus games. So there you go. Pomeierhive, now is your chance. Now can be your time. Okay. All right. So let’s uh let’s see what happens there. Um let me salute some more. You guys can call me up in the KFTV Discord if you guys want to talk some more about Mike Brown. Some more super chats in here. Shamik Boyd, peace, blessings, and positive vibes. Says people forget he’s a defensive-minded coach. He’s just like Tibs in that way. He’s just more flexible offensively, and he still holds people accountable. Okay, let’s see what he does with this Knicks defense here. Let’s do it. Shout out to Montreal, Stephanie Houle. Is it Oule? Jul. Salute to Stephanie out there in Montreal, man. Check out, you know, for my people out there in Montreal. Check out Gibbies. Great stakes over there, Gibbies, man. Tell you the franchise sent you. Tell them the franchise sent you. Great stakes over there at Gibbies. Okay. Shout out to Don’t bother me, I’m busy. Fight out super chat. Not me, the the guy, the YouTuber. Uh sour super chat says, “I like a coach who calls people out via media. It’s a way to hold players accountable. All this fakeish Tibs was doing wasn’t working.” Okay. Look, I look I’d say be a little bit careful. You don’t want to alienate your locker room, but let’s see if it works. If it works for Mike Brown, if it works for the Knicks and gets the message across, I won’t be mad at it. We got a new franchise channel member in the building. Salute to Raymond Williams. Welcome to the franchise channel members, Raymond. Welcome to you. Okay. All right. Let’s get back to the phones. Uh oh. Uh oh, I see who I gotta go here on the phone lines. He is a KFTV day one and a fan favorite. We going down to Tampa. Rambo from Tampa. How you feeling, man? Yo, the way the finally it’s over. Yes, sir. We have a coach.
I’m not gonna lie. I’m excited just for the fact that we have a coach.
Yep.
That that’s I’m I’m excited for that fact, man. you know, shout out to UCP for holding it down with all this every day. We got to talk about this guy and that guy, you know, but that’s over. We have a coach.
Yeah. And um Mike Brown, I felt okay about him. I feel like it was a safe it was a safe move. Nice lateral lateral move, you know. You got a coach that’s more more involved with his staff and and his and is less hands-on on certain situations, allowing allowing his staff to work, playing more guys, all that. That that’s all cool and dandy. Yeah. I mean, we seen it with the Kings. He could be a great coach and then the next year he could be fired mid-season. That’s right.
So,
so at this point in time, I’m just happy that we got a coach that now with our coaching place, we have some sort of direction because I’ve been I’ve been kind of feing over here in free agency for something. Shout out to the front office because they they they have been doing, you know, moves that I feel like no matter what coach was going to come in here would have been like, “Okay, Jordan Carson, we need that.” Uh, your boy from Philly. I He need a nickname. Have we Have we gave him a nickname yet?
Yelli. Yeah. I’m not even say his name, bro. I can’t I’m not even gonna lie to y’all. I’m I’m I’m killing that every time, man. Yeah.
I I really I be calling him like Kylo Quinn because he kind of gives me that feel. Yeah. Like
like But I We need a nickname for him because I I just I don’t I’m going butcher it every time, man. But I’m excited, bro. I am. I’m excited for the new year. Um I hope Mike Brown could do a few things out here. Hope he could unlock a few people. I want to see Deuce be unlocked because be honest with you, the the addition of Jordan Clarkson might put Deuce on the chopping block and I don’t want to see him go. So hopefully he can unlock some deuce. He could he could figure out if if it’s going to be hard on Mitchell Robinson. I’m just excited to get the ball rolling now. So let’s go. Let’s go, man.
Now now we could start really formulating stuff, man. We can start talking about stuff, man.
Absolutely. Absolutely. And how you doing otherwise, man? What’s going on in Tampa, man? How you been otherwise, man?
Man, listen. I’ve been I’ve been at work. Matter of fact, I’m at work right now. I had to I had to walk away from the cameras cuz I don’t want them to see me, you know, hanging out too much real quick. You know, you know,
you know. So, um,
but I’ve been good, man. You know, been my health has been good. Great. Wifey’s good. You know what I’m saying? Hey guys, it’s the little things. Don’t you forget that. Y do the little things. So, so when you need, you know what I’m saying? when y’all need to go step out and do something, she, you know, she got all them little things already in her bag. She’s like, “Oh, he’s right on point.” You know, take care of your business, take care of home, because when you down and you out, only gonna be home to take care of you, you dig? So, make sure y’all keep doing those things, man. But, um, besides that, man, I’ve been good, man. Just grinding six days a week. I’ve been trying to catch my, you know, my KFTV. Some days I can’t catch it, but luckily all major podcast formats, you know what I’m saying? That’s right. Spotify, you know, come on, man. YouTube, shout out to the replay gang. Shout out to everybody in the chat. At times, you know, I’ll be I’ll be on there listening and I can’t even really get up with the chat sometimes, man. So, shout out to all my guys in the chat, man. TM, shout out KG. Shout out to John Tento, man. Shout out to all, man. It’s it’s so many of y’all out there, man, that that we’ve been rocking for so long, man. And I love to see where we at. CP, you are like the designated president of the Knicks fandom right now. And it’s crazy.
No, it’s crazy to see. Like, if listen, if y’all really want to be humble and see and be motivated, go back to those first videos, man. See, I’m talking about outside MSG and I and I wasn’t listen humbling. Humbling, man. So, congrats to all you guys out there that out there hustling. JD, now you can breathe. We got a coach. Mike Brown. He’s here, guys. Let’s rock.
Yes, sir. That’s our guy, Rambo from Tampa, man. Throw some fives in the chat for Rambo from Tampa, man. Some of you guys know him. He’s a KFTV day one. Humble guy, man. and and and glad to hear that he’s doing well because a you know as we all go through our ups and downs and and our good times, our rocky times, you know, it it’s good that this platform is here to help y’all get through. So, so we just do a little part. So, salute to our guy Rambo from Tampa, man. Okay, I’m checking my phones. I mean, the the the my phone is blowing up. The Twitter is blowing up. Instagram, all the notifications are blowing up. I’m trying to concentrate here and uh and stare this thing in the right direction. The machine is going well. We got 4,000 people in here on the check-in. Shout out to my man in on the on the Facebook side, Fresno, California. Darren Taylor, I see you. Salute to you. Okay. All right. Let’s get some more. Call me up on the KFTV Discord, people. I want to hear your reactions. This is your show. What do you guys think about the Mike Brown hire? Here we go. Salute to Roar Herrera. Shout out to Roar, franchise channel member, a Canadian $7 super chat. A he says, “Is there any chance to get a defensive-minded associate head coach?” Nothing has been finalized yet when it comes to the the associate head coaches. So, just wait and see. I’m not so sure. Just just wait and see. That’s all I could say. Shout out. Okay, Bert 10 super chat says, “I like Brown. His schemes are more switchable and modern. Designed to adapt to today’s spacing. Night and day from Tip Scheme. CP, you’re like a kid in the candy store on the soundboard. Yeah, man. TM hooked us up. He He’s killing it as usual. And yeah, man. This is just, you know, what the team does. We have a great team. Everybody does their part. Shout out to Gamber on the graphics. you know, we we we we just thankful for the team that we have and everybody just does their part in making sure that you guys get the coverage that you need and that we could run a great show. So, we appreciate the team. We appreciate everybody for supporting and guys like Rambo for the for the kind words and uh and you Okay Bird as well. Okay. Now, yo, I see you know look the the sources thing has been very interesting. It’s been very very interesting since Saturday. I mean, I mean, not not even since Saturday, since last year. You know, we we’ve been on like a one-year run of just like giving y’all gems after gems after gems from like the Towns trade to, you know, Brunson injury return, Mitch injury return, Deuce injury return, lineup changes, Tibs being on the hot seat. So, yeah, that after game game four, two or four paces series. Okay. So, we’ve been, you know, we we’ve been hot. Now, the Dawn Staley thing had people in a frenzy. People still didn’t believe. Who is this people? Dicks fan TV. You had some guys at Made Street. Shams on the Mac show. It’s not on my desk. Well, Shams, you got to check your desk. You know what I mean? You got to check your desk. So, you know, look, I say that to say cuz I see people on Twitter right now, you know, they going at certain people like CPA disorder, CPI disorders. I appreciate everybody, you know, defending the platform and and defending me and everything. We don’t we don’t really do this to for the credit. I don’t really want to play that game. Like I said, we we I’ve said it for years now. When we hear things, we let y’all know. That’s it. And we not capping about it. We’re not going to lie about it. We gonna let y’all know what we hear. That’s all. So, you know, like especially with like, you know, my guy Ian, like Ian Ian Begley’s, that that’s an ally, man. That’s my guy through and through. He gave us our first opportunity. SNY was the first platform to really embrace the independent content creator wave. So Ian Ian is out there. He’s repping us heavy, man. So just make sure I see some of you guys like atam like, oh, you know, give CP’s credit like, you know, don’t don’t go at my guy Ian, man. That’s my guy. He holds us down, man. I Ian’s got our back. Don’t worry about that, you know. But yeah, we’ve been we’ve been on fire, man. We have the mic now. It’s going to be the name of the new book. The new book is coming out. Me and Ian Begley are working on the new book. So stay tuned for that. I haven’t even gotten a chance to to uh write my drafts today because we got a new coach. His name is Mike Brown. So yeah, you know, just just you know, we we appreciate the support dog. Okay, get back to the phones, man. Uh Will from Li. Will, how you doing, man? CP, you got me? Can you give me
loud and clear, man? How you how you doing? Are you recovering, man? Are you
I’m recovering, guy. I’m recovering, my guy. First off, I’m just uh first off, let me just give you your flowers. I was listening to the the live stream and and just spot on, man. The Don Staley uh gem that you dropped and the connection and you know, even you know, got in front of Shams, you know, like listen man, Shams, you know, I see you’re the head honcho now, but you know what? You have to wooge first. you know, you got to you got to do some you got to do some work before you get to W’s level. You got CP over here, you know,
um making you look bad. But hey, you know, that just uh that’s a testament to you and your sources. So, just thank you.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, for sure, bro. For sure, bro. talk. You know,
initially once I heard a couple of the names for the potential candidates and Mike Brown came up, it didn’t wow me at first just because, you know, when you think of Mike Brown, for whatever reason, I think a lot of people think about what he did in Cleveland, you’re like, “Ah, LeBron didn’t want him.” But when you really look at it, his resume is stacked. It is hacked. He he coached LeBron. He coached Kobe. He was associate head coach for the Golden State Warriors. Greg Papovich, he was also underneath that tree. And when you talk about the great ones, you know, he kind of checks off all those boxes. And then I like how passionate he is. I like that when he was over there in Sacramento, they had the number one offense. So, you know what? Going into it, he became, you know, a name that I like. Now, at the time when it was between him and Taylor Jenkins, I was still leaning a little bit more to Taylor Jenkins just for the simple fact that Taylor Jenkins is a little bit younger. So, I’m thinking, okay, he’s younger. He may be, you know, have a newer philosophy. But, you know, the same the same thing you can say about um Mike Brown of how he quote unquote lost the locker room. You could say that about Taylor Jenkins, what happened with Jaw, you know. Yeah. So, at that point, looking at both of them, I think that he was the best option. I’m happy with it. I don’t think I’ll be punching any more mirrors with him coaching this team, you know, God willing, because, you know, we can’t we can’t take no more of that. And yeah, I’m just ready to go, man. I I just really want to see what he does for Male Bridges specifically. We need to run sets for Male Bridges. If anybody gets unlocked with this coaching change, I hope that Male Bridges get it. So, I’m going to just leave that to UCP. I’m definitely going to be checking in tomorrow cuz I I want to learn a little bit more about his schemes and whatnot. But either way, great show as always. Thanks for putting me on and yeah, just have a great rest of your day and shout out to Nick Nation, man. Let’s go Knicks.
Yes, sir. Will from Li. Rate that call
in the chat. Rate that call in the chat. Well, I’m being trash. Five being facts. Will from Li. Will. Yeah, Will from Li. I’m very happy that Will is recovering. You know, Will Will did not handle the Knicks exit from the playoffs too gracefully and ended up committing violence on himself and had to spend some time in the emergency room. So, I’m glad Will from Li is recovering. Yeah, he had a rough he had a rough playoff season. Okay, back to the back to the super chats. Who we have here? Artman, formerly known as Steve $20 Super Chat says, “What’s a realistic percentage that Nick stay put with this team or look to move players and add players that Fitz Brown’s style of coaching? Also, is Giannis still on the table? If so, how do we do it without losing cat?” So, I know this was a uh this was a point of contention in terms of the Knicks free agency approach and in doing so without a without a head coach. I’m I’m trying to I’m trying to pull up the soundbite from Ian Begley, but it doesn’t look like the SMY clips are working at the moment. Let me see. Hang. Hang tight. Hang tight. Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the SMI clips are working, but this was a a a quote here from Ian Begley that says, “At least one meeting between the Knicks and a free agent ended with the player wanting to gain clarity on the Knicks head coaching situation before a major decision.” He says, “Maybe you see a couple other suit drops for the Knicks in free agency.” So, does a hiring of Mike Brown opening things up? Ian also reported that the Knicks are interested in or are keeping tabs on one Ben Simmons. Oh my god, I almost dropped out of my chair when I heard that. I I almost lost my cereal. What do you guys think in the chat? One, Ben Simmons. But for for Art Man’s formerly known Steve, he says, “What’s a realistic percentage that the Knicks put with this team?” I think they would look to add they they need another one more vet. I’d like to see them add one more vet wing. Do they look at Ben Simmons in that in that light? He is a He’s a big player. Can play some defense. Can playmake. Man, that guy has fallen off a cliff so bad. That needs to be studied. But I do think they need one more wing in in the rotation. So who that is, time will tell. But the Giannis thing without giving up Towns I I just I I I’m just not a believer in the Giannis thing. I I don’t believe they can get it done. You the Milwaukee Bucks would literally have to sell the team because the return that they would get back from the Knicks compared to what they can get from the rest of the team, you would have from the rest of the league, you would have fans revoling on that ownership. Never say never. Anything is possible in the league. Even the moves that the Bucks made yesterday using the stretch provision on Dame and bringing in uh Miles Turner, nobody really saw coming. But I I I just I I just don’t see how the Knicks can be a legit player in the sweep stakes. They’ll they’ll try to participate. I told you guys that a while ago. They they they want to be in it. Obviously, who wouldn’t? Every team in the league is going to try to get into this. But can they win it is another thing. I I’m I’m not so sure. That’s possible. But let’s see if if Giannis, you know, can can somehow up his leverage with the Bucks. Maybe it happens. So, let’s see. All right. Uh, anyway, man, what do you guys think? Mike Brown, the 32nd head coach of the New York Knicks. Knicks making it official today. Terms of the deal have not been announced just yet. But once it is, we’ll let you guys know. Okay. There was a question about what Yabasel’s nickname is going to be. What’s Clyde going to call Yaboselli on MSG at the Garden? 2K. Anthony J says, “Yabu say less is a great addition.” All right, so that’s his nickname. Yaboo say less. What do we think about that one? Rate that nickname in the chat. One million trash, five being facts. Do I want Dame Dallas here? I’d love to have him here. Come here, rehab. You know, Dame’s one of my favorite players, so I’d love to see it, but looks like the whole league is going to be after Dame. We got a $20 super chat for my guy Ronald Hansley Jr. Shout out my guy Ron Hanley, man. KFTV day one. $20 super chat says Brown wasn’t my top choice as head coach, but one thing he will do is hold his players accountable and give players chances to play, which was Tib’s Achilles heel. Hit that like and subscribe. Salute to you, CP and the whole KFTV family. Salute my guy Ron Hansley. Okay. Um, people are asking anything on LeBron. I I I feel like, you know, people are trying to make that connection with the Knicks getting Mike Brown. A lot of people are throwing the tinfoil Kofies on because Rich Paul called the Knicks in regards to Jordan Clarkson. So you have the mending offenses between CIA and Clutch. I don’t I I’m not really looking forward to that. I’m not really looking forward to that at all to be honest with you. I’m not really interested. 18 years we’ve been chasing LeBron James, man. Come on, ladies and gentlemen. Can we can Can we move on from LeBron now? I’m hoping we can I really hope we can move on from LeBron now. But yeah, we we’ll see what happens there. Um, let’s see. We talked about, you know, some of the some of the styles with Mike Brown. you know, he ran, like I said, he ran the Princeton offense with the Kings last year. I think that’s something if he brings it here to the Knicks, obviously with Carl Anthony Towns, his passing ability, you would need to, you should bring a system like that here because to take advantage of his floor spacing, his gravity, you have to defend him. You can’t leave him open. So yeah, I’m sure there will be times I think they still will run double bigs with Mitch because I think defensively you’re going to have to do that. But certainly there will be opportunities to run towns at the five. Maybe you’re running double bigs with Towns and Yabiselli and with Yabiscelli’s ability to stretch the floor and shoot the three that could be advantageous. But anyway, utilizing Towns as as a playmaker, I think should be a top priority of of this coach to do it more um consistently and it’s also an offense that’s going to OB that’s going to emphasize motion and spacing, you know, your back door cuts and and the high post playmaking. They also had just do in doing my research, they also ran some UCLA action. They ran some UCLA action. again. Offball movement, back screens, high pick and roll. So, let’s see if they if they go with it there and maybe is that something that they can utilize because I want to see that twoman game between Brunson and Towns be potent. I want to see that like like uh like Sabonis and uh and Fox. I was talking to Fred Catz. I did ask Fred Cats if he wants to come on. He says he’s got something going on. Everybody’s busy right now scrambling with the Mike Brown stuff. People’s got to put their their articles out there, content and stuff like that. the UCLA action, multiple counters and a lot of motion. We don’t necessarily obviously when it comes down to it, bread and butter, if we got to get the isolation going, yeah, we’re going to get that with Cap automatic. But we’ve got to see some creativity within this offense to get the most out of these players. That is going to be priority for this Knicks next Nick Nick next Nick Knicks head coach. Say it three times fast. Next Knicks head coach. So, let’s see if Mike Brown or James Burggo, whoever it is, let’s see if those guys plan to bring some of that offense here. I would have to think so. All right, let’s see what else we have here in the chat. Let me uh just cancel this stuff here. Getting through it with Mike Brown. Okay, any more super chats? I think we do think we do have some here. Okay, let’s get to it. We have a fivepound super chat. Our guy DJ Edsy says, “Mike and two sugars, please. If we fail to make the conference finals, is Mike Brown out the door? I I would hope not. No way. I don’t think so. I think they’re going to give up sometime, but the pressure to make it there. Sure. Pressure is on, man. Pressure is definitely on. Shout out to Kenny Gails. Fight out super chat says his name is Beignet Wallace or Yaba Daba for when Clyde butches his name. I think Yaba Daba could be a strong favorite. Not mad at the hire. Not excited. Just excited for next season. I’m with you on that, Kenny. How about Yaba Daba for Yabiselli? Does that work for the people? What do we think here? Okay, let’s see. JD sending me stuff here. JD, what do we got here? What do we got? Okay. Okay, there it is. Yeah, I told y’all badly leave my guy Ian alone, man. He says, “As many have as many KFTV fans pointed out by my bad CP the fans was on it yesterday. Salute to Eve, man. Come on, man. Leave the man alone. Let him do his job. Salute, man. I told you I’m not necessarily after the credit game. I’m not after that. Especially as my guy Ian, man, that’s my guy, man. Come on, man. Let him do his job. He’s busy today. Let Ian do his job. But we appreciate Ian for the recognition for sure. Boy, the KFTV hive, man. It’s It’s like the Night King in Game of Thrones, the White Walkers. We appreciate that, man. Appreciate the love from the family, man. You know, who’s this? Okay, here we go. Here we go. Frank the Tank hating. What’s Frank Solola hating about today? Why not at least speak to Michael Malone, Mark Jackson, Sam Cassell, Johnny Bryan, and even Jeff Van Gundy? Okay. It’s Frank Frank whining about something as usual with the New York Knicks. Yeah, I you know I explained it on the opener of the show. Mike Malone was never going to be a candidate here. They don’t like him. Uh Mark Jackson, hey I that that’s leaguewide. I think he’s just black bold, man. I think he is for whatever reason. Yeah, Mark’s not getting a gig. Cassell would have been interesting. I I would have been interested to hear about Sam for sure. I do wonder why some of these players become hot candidates at one point and then at the next is just like completely disregarded. You know, Jerry Stackhouse was one of those guys, right? Remember Stack House was like, “Oh, Stack House candidate.” And now he’s he’s he’s just on the bench of Golden State. Johnny, I did, like I said, I think he had fans in the organization. He did interview with the Phoenix Suns. He lost out on that one. Or maybe he declined. I don’t know what happened. He didn’t get it. But I do believe overall that they were going more experience here. And then Jeff, I I just don’t see I don’t I don’t know for sure. Like is there is there anything with Jeff and Dolan still? I don’t think Jeff would come back here. And I don’t think Jeff would would would uh I don’t think he he he would he would do tibs like that for some reason. I just I just don’t see it. I I I don’t I don’t see Jeff doing that. Jeff seems like he’s having a great time in LA with Tyoo and them. All right, just checking the text, making sure I’m not uh I’m not uh missing anything. Shout out my guy MSG E. Shout out to E, man. That’s my guy checking in. E, hope you’re having a great summer so far. Waiting to see anything about the terms of the agreement. Okay, we got Fox 5. Kendall from Fox 5. Hit me up, Kendall. I’ll hit you back. Oh, um, Las Vegas, my my my Knicks fans in the building, man. If you guys, whether you guys are summer league newcomers or summer league vets, the Knicks fan TV, Nicks Film School, and Left Coast Knicks meetup at Summer League is being planned. LD, I hope you’re listening. Saturday, July 12th at the Virgin Hotel. There is a venue called 24. What did I say here on Twitter? Hang on. Hang on. Let me get this right. But be be prepared to come out to Vegas for summer league. And we will be there on the 12th at the Virgin Hotel 8:00 p.m. at 24 Oxford. That’s what the venue is called inside the Virgin Hotel. 24 Oxford. This was a a a picture of the meetup last year. We do this every year at the beginning of summer league. We come together. A ton of Knicks fans come out to summer league. So, I’m hoping to see some of you guys there, man. Plan the trip to Vegas. Summer League is a good time. $35 all day at the Thomas Max Center. There’s two gyms in there. And you just walk back and forth. You sit wherever you want. You watch some of the young bright stars. You know, Cooper Flag will be there this year. Dylan Harper, Ace Bailey, the Knicks, obviously Dier and and Kick and those guys. Summer League is a great time. you know, whatever business you have out there in Vegas, if you just want to go to watch the games in a casual environment, it’s a lot of fun. So, anyway, this is what we do, man. Nicks Film School, Nicks Fan TV, our guys at the left coast, Nick’s crew out there in Los Angeles, July 12th, 8:00 p.m. at the Virgin Hotel, 24 Oxford is the name of the venue inside the inside the Virgin. And we will have another official flyer coming out and a RSVP link to make sure that we confirm the headcount. All free, you know, casual, nothing crazy. Just come through, have a good time, vibe with your fellow Nick fan. That that’s what it’s all about. Okay, so yeah, hopefully hopefully you guys uh can make it out there. CK2K, I know CK2K is going to be out there as well, man. That’s my guy. We got a $20 super chat from the rhyme animal Chuck D. He says, uh, franchise channel member. He says, “Works the team hard in practice. Hopes the team stays conditioned. We were the best condition team in the league during tibs. Brown got to be great and going to be Don Nelson or John Mloud. Chuck in Norway. Pressure is launch.” So shout out to the rhyme animal Chuck D, man. He is making his way around Europe. He was in London. He was in Amsterdam, I believe. So, shout out to the rhyme animal Chuck D right now on tour with Guns and Roses. Yes, sir. There we go. The rhyme animal Chuck D, man. He’s outside right now. Profits of Rage. There we go. So, shout out to the Rhyme Animal Chuck D, man. Always appreciate the tap in. He’s on tour and he’s still rocking with us. They were at the Royal Albert Hall. So, salute to Chuck. Okay, let me check in what else we got here. Okay, let’s go. Okay. All right. Yeah, hashtag PE. Throw your hashtag PE in the chat. Jason Benjamin, I sent a chat earlier curious about your opinion. Jason Benjamin, where are you? Jason Benjamin, I wouldn’t mind Ben Simmons at all. He says, oh, hang on, hang on. Let me protocol. Jason Benjamin fight super chat says I wouldn’t mind Ben Simmons at all. He’s 610, can defend one through five, can facilitate and handle the ball. If he’s healthy vet, I say do it. Look at the vetman. I can’t be mad at it. I’m just more so just kind of confused about what happened to the guy because I would I would love for him to come here and like be the Ben Simmons of old, but it’s like, man, how did the game change just so drastically? Was it the back? Was it the the physical the the the mental ailments? What really happened to Ben Simmons? Somebody needs to write a book on it. Never seemed to recover after after he froze up in that game against the Hawks. Never seemed to recover after that in the semifinals. But yeah, you’re right. I like I said, I’m looking for a wing. So, if they can get it, I’d be happy about it. Okay, let’s see who else we got here. Hit me up on the KFTV Discord. We are talking Mike Brown, the next head coach of the New York Knicks. Okay, just uh just combing the landscape here. Just making sure I didn’t miss anything. Just making sure I didn’t miss anything here. That’s Mike Brown. Mike Brown. Okay, Bondi says, uh, two factors. Nick saw Mike Brown. Leadership and collaboration. Okay. Is say CP is just a conductor. Yeah, I’m just a conductor, man. That’s it. Okay. Let’s go. Here we go. My guy the closer J Boogie, man. We hope that you are recovering nicely. Says, “Let’s stay positive. This is a step in a new direction with a championship site for the organization and the fans.” I would love Teresa Witherspoon on the staff. Happy Bday to my guy JJ. Is it JJ’s uh is it JJ from Brooklyn’s birthday? JJ from Brooklyn. Happy birthday, man. We we salute you JJ from Brooklyn if it is. Yeah. Theresa Weatherspoon. Always respected Teresa Weatherspoon, you know. Always respected uh uh Theresa Ratherspoon. So, let’s see. So, to the close of Jay Bookie, everybody in the chat, uh, just send him some well wishes, man, and wish him a speedy recovery. Okay, just making sure I’m going through my agenda here. Make sure I didn’t miss anything. We talked about free agency. They still need to make a couple of tweaks to the books to get that remaining vet minimum contract in under the second apron. Right now, they are hardcapped at the second apron. Uh, we were supposed to have Yosi come on at 5:00. Let me see if he can join us now. Let me see if we can just get Yosi in here now. That would make that’ll be real quick. Let me let me check. Are you free to join now for five minutes? Let me see if Josie can join now. I was supposed to bring him in at 5:00, but if we can just knock this out now, that’d be ideal. And that way I can go grab lunch and finish out the rest of the day. We got to ship out some merch. You got to get to the gym, do all that good stuff. Yeah. Is it JJ’s from Brooklyn in the chat? Did we miss JJ’s uh birthday? Happy birthday to JJ. If so, and salute to everybody in the chat once again, man. I want to salute another sponsor of today’s show, uh, and that is Wayfair, man. That is wayfair.com. go there and check out their Fourth of July clearance sale up to 70% off. And since the Knicks off seasonason, man, I’ve gone to Wayfair to get some of my, you know, I’m trying to get the house back in order because during the season and the playoffs, man, all I’m ripping and running on on all things KFTV and NBA Report related. So, I’m very busy. But since the offseason has been done, I’m getting the house in order. I’m redecorating a little bit and renovating. I got my patio furniture going. So, I got my outdoor patio furniture, got the lawn furniture, I got the grill set up, and I got it from my friends over at Wayfair. They will have you set up for all of your outdoor needs. 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What’s everybody on the Facebook still watching, still rocking with us? Let me see what Yosi said. Okay, Yosi’s good to join us. Okay. All right. So, let’s bring into action here. Let’s get our um our Zoom up. JD’s hitting me. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Let’s get everything in order here. We’re going to get Yosi going. Get Yosi here. Okay. Let me close this out. Uh where are we on the Zoom? We got to get Yosi in here. Hang on. Okay, just hang tight everybody. Just stay patient here. We’re going to get our resident capologist Yosi Goslin in here to give us a quick breakdown of the uh of the Knicks cap situation and what they will need to do. The Knicks have just signed Jordan Clarkson. They signed Gershon Yabuselli in free agency. So, let’s see what what’s left here of the cap as they are hardcapped at the second apron and what they will need to do to bring in a veteran. Okay, let’s see what JD is saying here. JD. Okay. Okay. So, similar sit sim similar here uh reporting here from Steve Paer. And like I’ve been telling you guys, uh, he says, “Some things I’ve heard from sources as we move as we move through the day. This Nick search was a long process. Lots of research to find who fit that went beyond the four coaches who were interviewed. And what Brown brought that is fit is leadership and collaboration. Just like I told you guys here, leadership, collaboration, Mike Brown. And as I said opening the show, I’m going to give it the benefit of the doubt, man. Let’s see how all the inputs factor in how everything meshes and gels before I can give it an accurate read. All right. What’s What’s the overunder uh uh in regular season games before you guys are mad at the coach? Five 10. Are we going to go to TI special or 20 games? What’s the overunder, man? 510. What do you guys think? Okay, let me um Okay, we got my guy in here. Yos’s in here. Yosi, hang on one second. Let me just uh line up the um Hang on one second. Let me just get you get you in here.
Can you hear me?
Yep. Yep. We can hear you loud and clear. All right. How How you doing, man? You’ve got no rest since free agency started.
Oh, last night I slept like a baby.
All right. Good, good, good, good.
All right. No doubt. All right. Let me get you in here. We got our guy, the resident capologist, man. One of the busiest guys on uh the the NBA landscape. Our guy Yoshi Goss is in the building, man. How How you feeling today, bro?
I’m feeling good. It’s been it’s been a little while. I don’t think we’ve had really too much fireworks in like about 24 hours. So, I’m ready to see what’s holding things up. Maybe we got some big dominoes waiting to to fall.
Yeah, for sure, man. So, you know, while we wait on those dominoes, talk to us a little bit about where the where the Knicks cap situation is right now and uh and what they need to do to, you know, maybe add some more talent here. They’ve added Yabiselli, they’ve added Clarkson so far. So, what more did do they need to do here to to uh add some more talent?
Well, first of all, I love the Yule signing, especially at that tax mid level. I really don’t think they could have gotten better value there. Like maybe you could have you could argue Al Horford, but I think just given the situation, uh, Yabu can like they needed like a guy who can, yeah, he plays some center, but he’s like primarily a four. I think they really needed that. So you can also do some small ball five there. So a lot of optionality. I love that signing. And then Clarkson, it’s just like I mean who would you rather have at the minimum, Jordan Clarkson or or campaign,
right?
I think that’s pretty obvious.
Yeah.
Um hopefully he just doesn’t take too many minutes away from K. Hopefully Mike Brown can play him in a lot more uh than did. But as far as the roster, so I’m looking at it right now, it’s basically going to be a tight squeeze where they could only do a couple more minimum signings to fill up the roster because right now they’ve got 12 guys under contract. They’re now hard cap to the second apron. So they can’t go above uh 207.8. And right now it just kind of
let me let me stop you there because because we we want to you know a lot of people get very confused with the apron stuff. So, let let’s just start with some like crisp definition. So, being hardcapped at the second apron means what exactly as it relates to the Knicks right now. So, I’m going to just pull it up really quick so I can read it. Sure.
I did that. I I put out that Knicks graphic. I’ll just read off that, but Sure.
Uh yeah, they can’t exceed 207.8 million. Yes.
They can’t uh they have to do 100% salary matching in trade. So they can’t uh whatever they send out, it’s got to take an equal amount. They can’t sign and trade for free agents. Uh and but uh so that’s basically it. And either way though, the biggest thing going on with the Knicks right now is that they are pretty they’re very close to that second apron. So, it’s going to be like another type of uh thing situation like last year where they had to pull some gymnastics to try to even get to 14 players.
So, assuming they keep their top six guys plus McBride and uh you know, Cole, Clarkson, Yabu, they e right now they could do a couple things. um at a minimum they can fit uh the roster under the second apron if they do a rookie minimum signing. So either Dawara or Naji or Roa Yakubitis and uh a guy on Kevin McCuller cuz he’s got a one he can do the one-year minimum so it’s a little cheaper at a minimum. I think the Knicks might do something like that. If they want to get another vet, like an actual veteran.
Yeah. Let’s say for argument sake they do want to get Ben Simmons in here. Let’s say for argument sake.
Okay. Then there’s a couple ways that can they can go about it. But assuming they keep all their top guys, they can either uh do the rookie minimum. So again, Diwara Nagi sign Ben Simmons as an example and then either uh Yabu needs to take just like a tiny bit off the his his signing like 40k offsh or they could trade uh Dier maybe uh because if they dump him and replace him with a minimum signing then you save like an extra 600k which could be a good amount of cushion for the Knicks to navigate uh the start of the season. M they would have to wait a bit before they can sign a 15th player again like last season.
Um so yeah, those are like the two options really. Uh I I would guess if I had to guess
and they want to bring in a vet,
I kind of get the feeling they’ll probably look to move Dier so they can get that extra.
No way, man. We need Dier here, man. He’s a future. Uh either that or you’re moving anybody else if whether it’s one of the top six guys.
I I just I don’t think
I doubt they’re going to have ask Yaboo to take a little bit less. Wow.
Because they’re also they’re not going to because the thing is like they don’t want to go into the season zero dollar like right at the second apron like zero cushion.
That’s not you need a little bit of of space below it just in case stuff happens, injuries happen. Um, so just speculation on on my part about how they might go about it.
Yeah.
Uh, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see first. Are the Knicks even going to get another vet? Uh, cuz for all we know, maybe they just do like McCuller and a rookie and and and call it an off seasonason. We’ll see.
So, okay. So, let’s Okay. So, let’s say this. The the rookie minimum, right? That’s that option can either go to a diara who they got in the draft or like a naggi. Those two guys you can sign to the rookie minimum. Correct.
Or or roas got invited. Whoever they have
he’s not coming. Yeah. Forget him. He’s not coming. Right.
Whoever they have the draft rights to.
Yeah.
Could maybe explain their their obsession with getting these draft rights in just in for a situation like this. Most of these guys are like already not playing anymore, but um yeah, but bas uh they have a couple options there for that rookie minimum spot.
Okay. So, all right. So, for so some guys in there at the rookie minimum, then you’re saying in order for us to get Ben Simmons without trading for anybody, then Yabuselli would have to take a little bit less on his deal. Is that correct? Yes. Yeah. So if all that goes into place, if we if we get let’s say we put Dawara in there in that spot and then we two-way Nazi, we two-way all these other guys with the three- two ways, you put you you asked Jabelli to take a little bit of a pay cut, then you could bring in Ben Simmons on the vet minimum and be under the apron. Yeah, but I think that pathway is less likelier than some type of trade. I think they I think most likely they do some type of trade because um I think they just they need a little they need some space below the second apron and the trade’s more likely to get him there. So
got you. So
we’ll see how it plays out.
So basically if it if they didn’t make the trade, they’d be right up there under the apron with no cushion, no wiggle room for anything.
If they Yeah. If they ask Yabu to take like it’s basically like $36,000 less, which
which isn’t that much, but like even if he does do that, they’re like right exactly at the hard cap. Um, which which would mean that if they went into the season and something happened, they would they would still have like Okay, let’s say that. Let’s say that for argument sake. Let’s say
it’d be like a math situation last year.
It’d be like a math situation. Go ahead.
Yeah, like the maths were stuck. They but the difference is the Mavs were stuck like with no space to sign anybody after the trade deadline. So then the Knicks would be forced to do some type of trade if if if they needed somebody because you couldn’t even afford you couldn’t even bring in a vet minimum or anybody off waiverss because you you couldn’t afford to.
There’s no space,
right? Okay. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
I would I would say let’s just wait and see what the Knicks do next. If they bring in a vet, then he knows something is is gonna something else is coming. Something’s gonna shake. Something is gonna shake. So, somebody can get traded. I hope they they can’t trade Dier, man. That would be crazy. I don’t know. Maybe maybe it’s not so crazy, but I mean, they just drafted him last year.
No, I know. Um we’ll we will see. We’ll see how they end up playing this ends up playing guy. Um, yeah. So, a couple options there. Those are basically like the three main avenues.
Okay. So, essentially, once again, if they’re going to get a vet like a Ben Simmons, somebody’s saying layman’s terms. Okay. So, essentially, if they’re going to get a guy like a Ben Simmons, ultimately a guy like a Yabuselli is going to have to take a little bit less. And even if he does, they will be right up against that bar where they won’t have much wiggle room in case something happens, you know, an injury happens and they got to make a move.
Now, I just thought of something else. They could do what they did last year when they went into the season with 12 players. Maybe they could do that again.
I haven’t done the math, but maybe. So, they have 12 players right now.
Mhm. Maybe they go into the season just with those 12 and then they can sign their 13th and 14th to like a little bit less. So like if it’s a rookie minimum, maybe you save like 200,000 there.
If it is a veteran minimum, same thing. You save like maybe 300,000. So that’s another thing where you get a vet to kind of I guess commit. Uh, I don’t know about committing now, but you just tell them, “Hey, like we’re interested in you,
but we’re gonna sign you
uh two weeks into the season.” I think that might be the other that’s probably the other way they can go about it. Uh, you know,
as those contracts pro-rated. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Be a little bit less. So, I may I think I’ll look into that right after we uh correct we get off this
because that was a similar scenario with um well what we were thinking if they would have went after a guy like a TJ Warren and things of that nature waiting to bring those guys in as a vet minimum contracts become a little bit less expensive.
They did that with Hooki and I forgot who the other signing was but yeah.
Okay. All right. So, couple of options here. Um, let’s see what happens, man. And and yeah, great job as usual, man. Great job as usual. Appreciate you checking in uh over such short notice.
Of course. Yeah, anytime. Thanks, EP.
All right. Appreciate it, man. Okay, that’s our guy Yosi Goslin in the building. So, as he said, man, you know, it’s complicated. It’s a little bit complex. We try to make it as as simple as possible, but the with the with the aprons and stuff, it’s not it’s just not that easy. It’s just not that easy. So, essentially what he’s saying is Brock Aller and and the Knicks front office have some homework to do in terms of how if they want uh to make another vet sign and if they want a Ben Simmons, they’re going to have to they’re going to have to to do some juggling there. I’m just reading the chat on my phone. So, when I do it on my computer, my computer freezes up a little bit. Okay. So, so, so there you so there you have it. Shout out to my guy Yosi for checking in and and explaining that. Okay, here we go. Uh, let’s see. Oh, okay. Is B was Burman hating now? I Solo was hating earlier. What’s Burman saying? The old guard of the next beat stirring up the pot. Here’s uh South Florida Burman. Oh, let let me let me fix my screen up. This was a little zoomed in because I had to get Yosi in there. Okay, here we go. What’s Burman saying? Uh Burman. Okay, South Florida Burman. Here we go. Checking in from Florida and hating. He just collaboration is another phrase for having Worldwide West help coach the team. Nick’s brass thought kid was in the bag. Leon must know this is rolling the dice in the largest head coaching decision in Nick’s history being on the cusp. Okay. What do you guys think there? South Florida Burman live from the pickle ball court lobbing a grenade up the I95. You let me know your thoughts. Your show, man. I’m on show for the fans by the fans. Okay, so the old guard muddying up the waters a little bit and stirring the pot. What you guys think about the Yabelli pickup, man? What you guys think? Oh, somebody in somebody in the chat had the nickname uh Yabuzilla. Is that what I saw in the chat? Is that what I saw in the chat earlier? Yabuzzilla. I like that. Jose M. Nick’s Castaways hard at work. Yeah, they going they going hard. We asked the good people of the chat to grade the Mike Brown higher. Over 5,000 votes graded it a B. They like it. Okay. Okay. 26% rated it a C they are indifferent. 6% said not it. 21% said they love it. All right. I like the distribution here, TM. I I I think it’s reasonable. I think I think it’s a reasonable distribution here, TM. Okay. All right. Let me let me fix up my graphics a little bit here. It’s a little uh it’s a little wonky, man. Fix up my graphics. tidy up the crib, you know, suits everybody in the chat. Okay, there we go. Fit that in there. All right, anybody else on the Discord that want to get in? I got to eat lunch. I got to catch up. Shout out to my guy Yosi for checking in and explaining what’s happening here on on on the uh on the salary cap front. So, it won’t be that easy. Could a trade be made here? Or does Yabiselli take a little bit less? Do they get a guy in here and and you know be right up on there on the on the cap? You know, if I run into Brock at summer league, man, I’m going to be asking him, man. Maybe he’s walking around with a calculator or something, you know, just just running different scenarios in his head. Like, Brock, what are you thinking, man? What’s the plan? What’s the play? Let’s see. Shout out to Brock, man. He’s a friend of the program, man. He’s he’s a KFTV viewer. So, shout out to Brock, man. Okay, what else? What else do we have here? What else do we have here? Clarkson. We got Clarkson. What do you What do you guys think about the Jordan Clarkson? Uh, what do you guys think about the Jordan Clarkson signing? Okay, we got uh some some Mike Brown highlights here. Some Mike Brown sound bites. We can we can close with this. Maybe we’ll get some of the people who were on the fence or not too happy about it. Maybe we’ll get him on. Here’s Mike Brown. Here we go. I know it’s elementary, but I’m telling you, it’s impactful.
Our guys found a way to get the win, but we were not good. Josh Hart just kicked our ass. He kicked our ass. I’m about to lose my [ __ ] family. I don’t give a [ __ ] I don’t give a [ __ ] J I’m like I hope he don’t tear something [ __ ]
like you old Mike be like like you ain’t working out like that. You got to chill. Turn the [ __ ] jets off.
But like that’s just the intensity that he bring. Turn the [ __ ] jets on.
You got to love that about Mike Brown. Hold on. One, two, three, four, five.
Great defensive play. And Mike Brown is
Mike Brown. Wow. In the face of I didn’t see that coming.
D, let me let me see that, man. Show you guys why I got kicked out of the game in the third third quarter with 128 left. And right here, you can you can watch. Go back and watch. You had Mike Brown who obviously, you know, I played for for a few years. He’s damn good defensively.
Mike Brown went up to Meta World Peace and said, “You sub for Kobe and grabbed Kobe.” Kobe went to the end of the bench without saying a word.
Detail oriented. He’s been up front and open and honest and he praises guys when they do well. He jumps on them when they’re messing up right away. He does that with me. He does that with Pal. He does that with eBanks. You know, there’s no different. I’ve been, you know, extremely extremely surprised and and very very pleased with that.
You have that ring collection we all know about, but you know, Mike got to the finals and couldn’t get it done. Have you spoken about how much he individually wants to to get that championship?
No, I could tell how much he wants to because I can tell how, you know, you can see how hard he works. No wasted energy. There’s no wasted time. He’s in here working and uh that makes you want to wait for him that much more. Keegan, hell of a job, young man. That’s a fantastic TV pass. Hey. Hey. Like that. That’s a charge. Hell of a charm, man. Cuz we going to have some adversity and conflict with one another. And we got to be able to be open and honest with each other. coming here to win. So, we’re going to embrace anything that’s in front of us that uh talks about winning. Uh so, we look forward to it. All right, man. Are you not entertained? Huh? What do we think next Nation? Time will tell as the world turns. Orange and blue edition. Rest in peace to the late great black mamba Kobe Bryant, man. O, sorely missed, man. Sorely missed. But man, I I thought we had a fantastic episode here today. I thought we had a good constructive session breaking this down, the pros, the cons. We we we we split the atom in many different ways. You know, we didn’t just sugarcoat this. We got your takes, good caller reactions. I gave you my thoughts on it and we leave it at that. Time will tell. Who will be the next roster edition? Who will represent the staff? One things is for sure. We are going to be here covering it all with the number one show for the fans by the fans. I want to salute everybody who came in, everybody who supported the machine, everybody who sent in a super chat. Okay. Uh oh. Uh oh. Hang on. Hang on. Ladies and gentlemen, hang on. We can’t end the show just yet. We have a franchise channel member on the Discord. And this is what they pay for, man. The franchise channel memberships for everybody that’s joined. You get the easy pass, the direct access on the Discord to jump the line and uh and your call will be heard. This is what you pay for. Your $5 a month, cheaper than a cup of coffee. So, let’s go to the Discord and close out with our guy Christopher Blake. Christopher, how you doing?
Yo, CP, salute. Salute. It’s a beautiful day. You know, I’m out here walking my dog. Got the news. You know,
I wasn’t sure if I should call in, man. Cuz usually when I call in, I’m I’m a I’m a beacon of positive energy, bro. Yeah. You know, I come with the with the with the with the viewpoints that make the people go crazy and like get behind the team.
And you know, it’s not even that I don’t like Mike Brown as a person or as a coach.
I just don’t know if this New York thing is for him, bro. like this like New York is a pressure cooker and this situation is intense and he’s kind of an emotional guy. You know what I mean? You really can’t have emotions when you’re when you’re at the helm. You can’t even be happy. You can’t even be sad because Nick’s fans going to take that and run with it and take it left field. We all remember when Fizzdale was smiling when he was getting blown out. He was out of there, bro. He he had to get up out of here. So coaching wise, I feel like he will do a good job, right? I think he will come with some alternatives to what we were doing before.
Mhm.
But we need an excellent job. We were two games away from reaching the finals. Any other situation just doing a good job is is fine. We need a chip, bro. And I hate for him to be the person to step into that because I like Mike Brown. I’m not gonna lie to you. And this is a a a doozy, right? Me personally, I would have loved to see Jason Kid. I would have loved to even give Johnny Bryan a shot. I think they would have fared a little bit better. Mike Brown is a I think he’s a two-time coach of the year winner, right?
Yes. Two time. Yes, sir.
He has accolades, man. He remember he took LeBron and them when LeBron was the puppy and brought him to the finals. It was him and that brought him to the finals against the Spurs, right?
They got challen. But he he has he has it. But does he have it for New York in this particular situation with all these shortcomings that we have? I like the roster moves. I like Clarkson. I like Yabuselli, but they’re offensive minded. And really and truly, I didn’t have a problem with the offense as much as others do.
Really, I think the problem with the offense was these guys were unfamiliar with each other. OG just took got here, took a cup of coffee, just took a cup of coffee. Bridges came out of nowhere. Towns got added right before training camp. Like, it was just a lot to try to do in under a year and we accomplished so much. I didn’t think we were going to even make it that far. Most people didn’t think we were going to make it that far. It was we’re gonna we got to beat Detroit or we got to be competitive against Detroit. We beat him. We got to be competitive against Boston. We beat them. I was a fan of let’s just see how far we go. I I I I don’t even want to get negative, but I ran a stat that there’s not that many teams that were contenders that changed coaches and became championship caliber, right?
Yeah.
As a Knicks fan, I just got to hope for the best. I hope we reach it. I hope I hope this was the right move. I have to trust in Neon as a Knicks fan. As a practical person, question mark,
you know what I mean? Yeah. But no, there’s only one place that I’mma tune in to. Where’s the Nick Fan TV jerseys, bro?
Appreciate you.
I need some I need some jerseys, bro. So, I can rock them.
I’m going send I’m going to send you a rally towel, man. Do you Do you have a rally towel yet, sir? Do you have a rally towel?
I don’t have a The last thing I bought was the Once a Nick, Always a Nick poster. I got that. It’s looking crispy in the office, bro. I’m telling you, I love that joint. Well, I need I need a I might need a jersey, bro. Like a oversized 50 stick so I can, you know, bring bring back bring it back to our era. You know what I mean? when we was doing. Of course. Of course, man.
Yo, love and always, bro. We link up. All right.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Christopher Blake on the Discord. Hey, rate that final call in the chat, man. One being trash, five being facts. Like I said, I can’t I can’t argue, you know, it’s just going to work. I don’t think there’s anybody that can give you a for sure thing. This is absolutely going to work. I I just have to we just have to give it time. And I know some of you like, we don’t got time. Hey, look, one thing that we’ve learned over the course of 80 game, 82 game season plus playoffs and all that, it is a marathon. There’s going to be good times with this group. There’s going to be some growing pains. Don’t get too high. Don’t get too I know it’s easier said than done. This is what we do. But try not to get too high. Try not to get too low because remember the postseason, remember Steph said it so many times on this show. Big up to Steph Malberry. The post there’s three seasons. There’s a preseason, regular season, postseason. The postseason run, this past run that the Knicks had was like leaps and you didn’t even remember about the regular season. It was so long. It was so different. So, let’s let’s just give it some time. See what the staff is going to be. See how the roster rounds out. summer league, training camp, preeason, and then away we go. One step at a time. But as I said, man, we’ll we’ll keep it locked here. We got you guys covered. So to our sponsors of today again at LinkedIn, go to LinkedIn jobs, LinkedIn.com/nixfantv to post your job today for your small to mediumsiz business. Uh you can do it for free. Terms and conditions apply. Also, salute to our friends at Wayfair. Go check out wayfair.com w a yf f a iir for their 70% off clearance and get your outdoor furniture, your grills and whatnot for the July coming up. So make sure you guys are doing that. Like I said tomorrow we will have James Ham, Sacramento Kings beat writer. We’re going to get some more on Mike Brown. I want to shout out some more super chats have come in. Jay Boogie fight super chats surgery went great. I’ll be back before training camp. Shout out to Chuck D with the new album. Yes sir, the rhyme animal Chuck D has a new album out so make sure we are supporting as well. Shout out to Germ franchise channel member super chat to CP. Great job from you and the boys this season. Bought a uh bought a lot of fire merch this year. Shout out to Germ ready for the next season already day my guy. Keep rocking. Shout out to Suavey Suavei. Fight out super chat says, “Would you rather Westbrook or Simmons for what this team needs? I’ll take a chance on Simmons.” DJ Edzy finishes at the top of the leaderboard. Great job, Edi contributing to the show. A five pound super chat says, “Can’t they do a signing trade with Precious to stay under?” I believe he said no. Well, I got to go back on on uh on Yosi’s um comments. I believe he said not right now, but let’s see. Shout out to Chris $2 Super Chat franchise channel member. He says, uh, imagine Tibs having that energy. Mike Brown. Yeah, that’s funny. Complete opposite. So, let’s see if if that fire can be used to motivate these guys. Dwayne Vogle says, “You for the win.” Shami Boyd, salute. Riyad Raheem, salute. Who else? Roar got you. Richard Miranda, salute to you. Raymond Williams, salute to you. Hi Ku homie. Let’s see. Fat super chat says, “Thumbs down on the mic brown. I’d rather have Tibs instead of milk dud Charlie Brown. This is a bad hire all around.” So that’s Haiku homie. Let’s throw some snaps in the chat. That was another bar from the haiku homie. It’s very creative. Okay. Shout out to Groovy Fight Super Chat says Nick’s got him in the hot seat already. Oh yeah, I got that one ready. All right, guys. Remember uh like, share, subscribe. All all these shows are available in audio podcast format. Salute to the replay gang. We’ll run another replay of this show for tonight. See you guys tomorrow or whenever any breaking news happens, man. See you guys later. Peace. Oh man, another super chat just came in. I gota I before I sign out $10 super chat from Chill Boy says uh people can’t say he shouldn’t have been fired from Sack Town and talk about all his accomplishments and then say he isn’t isn’t good in the same breath. He’ll be great. Okay, let let’s see, man. Let’s see. Okay, appreciate the appreciate the super chat. Time will tell is what I’m saying. TM, remember you called it first. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Appreciate you guys, man. All right.
Knicks Fan TV LIVE: Mike Brown is the New Knicks Head Coach!
Breaking News: Mike Brown is officially the 32nd head coach of the New York Knicks! In this live episode of Knicks Fan TV, the number one show for the fans, by the fans, we break down everything you need to know about this major hiring.
After an exhaustive search, the Knicks have landed on Mike Brown, a two-time Coach of the Year, to take over from Tom Thibodeau. What does this mean for the team’s future? We dive deep into:
Mike Brown’s Coaching Philosophy: We discuss his offensive strategies, including the Princeton offense and UCLA action, and how they could unlock the full potential of players like Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Mikal Bridges. Can he enhance the team’s chemistry and cohesiveness?
The Sacramento Kings Tenure: We explore why Brown was fired from the Kings despite winning Coach of the Year, addressing the concerns about his handling of the media and his relationship with players. We’ll be joined by James Ham, a Sacramento Kings beat writer, for an exclusive deep dive tomorrow night!
Front Office Expectations: Learn about the Knicks’ priorities for their new coach, including maximizing roster talent, fostering collaboration with the front office and medical staff, and emphasizing player development under the new CBA rules.
The Coaching Staff: Who will join Mike Brown’s staff? We discuss the rumors around James Borrego and what it means for the team’s defensive strategy.
Fan Reactions & Live Call-Ins: Hear from passionate Knicks fans from around the world as they rate the hire, share their concerns, and express their hopes for the upcoming season. We also tackle questions about potential roster moves, including Ben Simmons and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Cap Space Breakdown: Our resident capologist, Yosi Goslin, breaks down the Knicks’ current salary cap situation and the challenges of adding more veteran talent under the second apron.
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49 Comments
Carlisle had an insider’s edge on the Knicks’ schemes after the Pacers landed Obi Toppin. Add in Wally Szczerbiak’s infamous ‘wannabe fake All-Star’ jab at Tyrese Haliburton, and you’ve got all the fuel Haliburton needed to torch New York every time they met.
Thibs should've never been fired…At least would have given him one more shot🤦🏻♂️
HEEERREEE WE Go…..‼️‼️‼️‼️💯💯😂
As a Knicks fan from Ohio, let’s just say I’ve watched a lot of Mike brown coached games with the Cavs.. idk if he’s the answer but no choice but to give him a shot now. He’s decent, but I woulda went with Jenkins.
Brown is 55 and served on the staff of several chamoionship teams. Hopefully he can bring in a lot of what he has learned to this Knicks squad. I am skeotical, but as a Kincks fan, I am hopeful to see much success.
I believe the Knicks are the top team in the East now with Boston and Indiana dealing with rehabilitation of their star players. Hopefully Brown developes these young players and gets us to the promised land.
Let's go Knicks!
I love this
gotta do anything possible to get their picks back. its been bad decision after bad decision and yall enable it
This was a terrible hire. I’m not impressed. I think we are about to waste a few seasons.
Smh Karl Anthony Turnstile is still on my team…we still dont have a backup big, and neither of the FA's we picked up has defense. Id feel better if we had that. … I'll be optimistic because i have too
hell yeah; huge upgrade over Thibs. He’s been part of multiple championships and will actually play our full team.
Well Mike brown won a lot his first year but when you do that in a city where teams aren’t willing to pay for players the next year, your left with losing players who shined and increased value left while the west became more competitive, you can’t keep winning consistently. I think the real question is, why not Mike Brown. He’s a proven coach in this league
Already has a better team than last year and a much easier path. Anything less than a chip is a failure.
In Australia, we’d probably nickname Yabusele, “Yabby”. 😁
Let’s Go Knicks!!!
It's 'ALL OR NOTHING' next season 💪
Anybody better than Thibbs ! 🙏🙏🙏
2 games short of finals
Mark Jackson 😢
Knicks would rather hire the devil they know
After shutting up and doing all the research….Mike Brown deserved the job. Turn Sacramento around, coached all the stars…putting in 20yrs of experience…created a number 1 offense and a number 1 defense team….the resume is legit. Heard he’s way more inclusive with coaches as well & so let’s go.
Should had kept thibs another year
We missed out on getting Johnny Bryant HC …..
Yes a big upgrade from tibbs…excited about the upcoming season
Replay gang 🧡💙
Knicks really don't have a plan if they hired mike brown this is a downgrade 1st round exit is coming
Good Move!
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Mike Brown 2 x Coach of the year 2009 w Cleveland 2023 w Kings. I’m ok with the pick and he uses his bench.
Mike "Turn the family show jets on" Brown! Lol. Let's go!
I like the hire, mike brown is a good leader and i think he can get us to the finals, now let's add depth & continue to build, let's be honest it wasn't nothing out there coaching wise so im very optimistic. #newyorkforever
i knew clarkson was on his way here when we saw him running around central park two years ago. 😂😂😂 all i gotta say is…..CAN WE GO GET DONTE?!?!?!!?!?!?
And who am i to get or here and lie i definitely wanted kidd or udoka but i knew it was highly unlikely & wth happened to johnny Bryant we didn't even interview him. But again im fine with Mike Brown im not mad at all he's very proven.
First of all, Mike Brown is a very good coach and has been for a long time….notwithstanding his sometimes checkered history on a few teams…..he’s got b***s and stresses defense all day….this is the best team overall that he will coach and I think they’ll all respond to his coaching…I think you’ll see a more balanced and nuanced product on the court and on both sides of the ball…we’ll all see pretty early on the stark differences between Brown’s coaching style/technique and Thibs’ own as well….some former Thibs players almost all said that Thibs basically just rolled the basketball on the court and said ok go play now…”the game tells you what to do”…oh really?….ok so you wait to see how your opponent is playing to then decide how to play….say what? No wonder the Knicks always seemed to start a game being down by double digits so often and early in games, you doofus!
The number one reason to be optimistic is , Because he now Coach's our NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKERS!!!! SO GOOD JOB MIKE, PLEASE BE DYNAMIC, BE YOU, AND GET US TO THE PROMISELAND!¡! THATS WHY WE GOTTA BE POSITIVE 💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡
Gursh or Yabs is cool he has a very nicknamable name lol…Whatever the case he has solid upside as a factor off the bench…Energetic banger who can stretch some..Plus he could help mentor the young French prospects..
I hope they are keeping Rick Brunson
Bring Mike Woodson back, defensive minded Coach…..
That hit me. Didnt expect it. I didnt want Tibs to leave. What happens if his wins loss does not match. Tibs to me and the 5 1st round picks for Bridges Im lost.
BEN SIMMONS… Just gone head and retire
Cp3 you said he was Thibs clone lmao
What happens in SAC? Fox. Is what happened
What happened to Jenkins? Morant
Mike Woodson as top assistant…
To get breggo just pay him. It’s not connected to players salary cap
Let’s reserve judgement .
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I'm definitely okay with Mike Brown being the Knicks head coach. Out of the candidates interviewed, he has the most NBA experience in BIG GAMES as well as in the regular season. Also, his overall career is unquestionably superior to the others. However, Borrego was intriguing. With that being said, given the team that the Knicks already have in place, I can envision them winning a championship under Coach Brown's leadership… Congratulations, Mike! Let's get it! 🏆✨️
😂😂😂😂MIKE BROWN NOT FOR THE B.S
Yo CP! What's the name of that song in the background 1:19