FIRST TAKE | Windhorst BREAKING: Mike Brown as potential next HC of Knicks – Stephen A.’s reaction

FIRST TAKE | Windhorst BREAKING: Mike Brown as potential next HC of Knicks – Stephen A.’s reaction

First take. It is time now for a quick take and we go to Brian Windhorse here. Wendy, what is the most underrated move so far of free agency? Yeah, I like to uh highlight what the Atlanta Hawks did last night in getting Alexander Nil Alexander Walker in a sign and trade deal from the Timberwolves. The Wolves really wanted to keep him, but they had to spend so much money on resigning Naz Reed um and Julius Randall that they he just didn’t fit under their uh second apron. So they were they were willing to participate in s trade. Uh Alexander Walker has been a really important piece to the Wolves getting the conference finals last two years. He has great length. He defends. He can play multiple positions. He can defend multiple positions. And when you’ve got a player like Trey Young, you need to have, you know, defensive versatility to help protect him. And that’s what the Hawks have built here, especially with Dyson Daniels, who they acquired last year in trade, and now um Nil Alexander Walker on the other side. Like they’re really the Hawks with a nice move here and they paid them an average of about $ and a/ million a year which is a really good number in today’s day and age for a quality guard like this. He was probably of the unrestricted free agents. He was probably the most desirable guard out there. And the Hawks were able to get it done in addition to landing Chris Poringus last week in a draft day move. So really impressive nice move by the Hawks to upgrade their overall roster. Hawks, sorry, the Hawks last week also got the number one overall pick or potential number one overall pick in next year’s draft from the New Orleans Pelicans in that draft night trade going down a few slots in the draft but getting a hugely valuable and protective pick next year. They have gone out and gotten guys who shoot the ball, have length for for defensive purposes. I think they got a chance to be a top four team in the east and are taking advantage of some of these other teams both inactivity and injuries across the conference. The Trey Young Invitational is over. They are not a play team anymore. This is a definitely a top four team uh in the East. I said that Houston has been pitching a perfect game in the offseason. Hawks has been pitching a no hitter. They’ve been incredible with all their moves getting the defense around Trey Young and that pick. Still trying to figure out what the Pelicans are doing. This is going to be a lottery pick that they’re getting to add to that team next year, which is good news. Look, the Hawks have been good. Their defense has not been great. Bottom half of the league in defensive efficiency the last handful of years with these moves that obviously upgrades on the defensive side. Let’s go to the issues with the New York Nicks now because they still do not have a head coach, but it doesn’t mean they’re necessarily not trying. There’s been a lot of no thank you and no second interviews, but it appears one candidate is worthy of interview number two and that would be Mike Brown. Shamani is reporting that Brown is now emerging as a strong candidate for the Nick after he was fired by the Sacramento Kings this year. Brown was also an assistant with the Warriors and a former head coach of the Cavs and the Lakers. But now this opens up to a bigger question and I feel like we’ve been discussing this a lot and especially now that we’re in this free agency land. Is the Nick even a desirable coaching job at this point? Wendy, what do you think? Absolutely. It’s a desirable coaching job. They have a top seven, six or seven already built out, installed. They um are in the Eastern Conference where their their health as a team has enabled them to rise up the the ranks. I mean, they are in a better position than some of their other rivals just because they’re able to be healthy. Also, Jayen Brunson’s willingness to take a lesser contract a year ago, which was really an underrated move at the time, is kept the Nicks out of the second April. So that is going to enable them to continue to add to this roster. I know it may not manifest itself in major free agent moves yesterday, today or this week, but they can do things in trades and things that other teams in their position cannot going forward. And if you’re the individual, whether it’s Mike Brown or somebody else, you’re going to get paid a ton of money because they just fired a guy and made the conference finals. And if and Mike Brown still owed $20 million by the Sacramento Kings, he doesn’t have to do anything and he’s going to get a ton of money the next couple of years. If they if he is the choice, he’s going to have to get he’s going to get a ton of money for this. This is it’s a high pressure job. It’s a high expectation job and all that sort of stuff, but it’s very good NBA job. I know someone who disagrees with you. I wouldn’t want to take this job. Now, when you talk about the $ million and all that, that that means a little something, too. But in terms of all things being equal, you’re coming into a situation where your expectation is championship or bust. They made the Eastern Conference Finals. They got rid of the coach. And now you have to come in and take a team that is not a perfect team that has its flaws and you have to make it at least to the NBA finals. That is a ton of pressure in New York City in Madon Square now. Mike Brown is somebody who has handled a lot of pressure. You had to get coach LeBron and try to win a championship with LeBron. He went to the Lakers uh with Kobe did not quite work out when he went there. But he he understands pressure. But the type of stuff that you have to deal with to get to this do this, especially when you look at the fact that Tibs when he left the Nicks have not been able to find anybody that I can see as a better coach as a as a just upgrade from Tibs from start to like I just don’t see it. Right? And so when you’re bringing in somebody who is not going to get that excitement from everybody says this is better than the guy that we had and you have to make it to the finals that’s just a recip for disaster. No disrespect but that is a crazy take because if you what this show is for. If you are an NBA coach, if you can walk into a team with this kind of talent, with this kind of expectations, with this kind of money coming to you, that’s a nobrainer job to take. It’s a great job. It’s one of the best jobs in the league. Now, it isn’t a job that comes without pressure or expectations. It is going to be very difficult for a guy to walk in and succeed in this job. Because to David’s point, what he’s 100% right on is the only thing that’s going to be successful for a team in for the Nick next year, for this Nick team is to make the NBA finals. There is nothing less than that that’s going to be seen as a success. When you look at the injuries across the conference, when you look at the situation the Nicks are in, having Fire time Tibing the Conference finals, they lose in the first and second round. That’s going to be a catastrophic failure. Who knows what the reaction that will be. But if you’re a coach in the NBA, there are very few opportunities where you can walk into a job with the kind of talent and situation the Nicks have. The thing that’s ironic and interesting about this situation New York is in is typically every year there’s like one guy sitting out there that’s the obvious big candidate to go get. Right? For this year, for whatever reason that candidate was not there. So the Nick went and tried to get Jason Kid and Billy Donovan and Quinn Snyider and they went down the list of these coaches that were hired by teams and employed by teams and those teams wouldn’t let them out. So now they’ve gone through this process of waiting to see who they’re going to land. I mean look we can look back on this a year from now and say the Nicks find their Joe Tory who 30 years ago got hired by the Yankees very similar situation got fired. They went a long time looking for a coach they hire Joy to go to the World Series and they win their first championship in a while. If that happens no one’s going to remember how long this search took if it’s Mike Brown or somebody else. And if they lose in the first or second round people are going to want to burn the garden down. Okay. That’s like that’s what I’m saying. Like your expectation is I mean think about a couple years ago last year first or second round for this Nick was a good season. Now they’re going to burn Marquare Gardner if you don’t make the finals if you loser the play. That is an intense amount of pressure. You are a failure if you do not take a Nick team that has not been to the finals this century to the finals. That is unreal pr. That’s what the money’s for. That’s right. That’s why you get paid all. Yeah, pressure builds diamonds, right? That’s the whole point of it. The situation I just find confusing. They’re not really able to make moves in free agency right now because they don’t have a head coach. And what did Windy say in the first block? Today’s NBA needs to have depth. And that is the one thing that the New York Nicks have none of. I wouldn’t necessarily quite go that far. They’ve agreed to get Jordan Clarkson signed and they have their taxpayers level exception to go sign somebody else and this is a team that’s the cake is large there’s not a lot of stuff they’re going to do right now. Bri’s right. They can make trades but they have their top seven guys. They need to add a couple defic. That’s not enough. Well, they seven is pretty close to what you need. They have they’ve now added Jordan Clarks and if they sign one or two more guys this summer, they’re going to feel good about what they have. Like to me, it’s they don’t need to go out and fundamentally remake the roster like some of these other teams are talking really quick. One play go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Sh. They don’t It’s not ideal to fire your coach after he’s just had your best season 25 years. Ok. But if you don’t have a high draft pick and you don’t have a lot of money to spend in free agency, it’s not the end of the world not to have your coach for those two things. It’s not perfect, but the Nicks haven’t lost anything with this. Really quick before we go to break here, Wendy, or anyone, why aren’t they talking to Michael Malone? 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FIRST TAKE | Brian Windhorst BREAKING: Mike Brown as potential next head coach of New York Knicks – Stephen A. Smith’s reaction