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Seven contenders to lead the Knicks to NBA heaven
The Straits Times
|June 05, 2025
Over the last five years, Tom Thibodeau won 226 regular-season games with the New York Knicks, or just 30 fewer than his six predecessors combined.
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His 24 play-off wins were the most by a Knicks coach since Jeff van Gundy. From 2001 till Thibodeau's 2020 arrival, the franchise had won just nine post-season games.
Additionally, the Knicks' trip to the Eastern Conference Finals was the first for the franchise since 2000.
But, despite all that, Thibodeau was fired on June 3 before the three-year extension he signed last summer could even begin.
Here are a few candidates who could finally help the Knicks win their first title since 1973.
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