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After firing Tom Thibodeau as their head coach, what's next for the Knicks?
New York Amsterdam News
|June 05, 2025
Tom Thibodeau is gone, fired by the Knicks' executive leadership team on Tuesday after a five-year tenure as their head coach.
The 67-year-old, who ended this season as the NBA's oldest head coach when the San Antonio Spurs' 76-year-old, five-time league champion Gregg Popovich officially retired in May due to health issues, grew up in New Britain, Connecticut, as an avid Knicks fan.
Thibodeau, a Knicks assistant coach from 1996 to 2003, was instrumental in reinventing the franchise when he was hired as their head coach in July 2020, from a dysfunctional source of frustration for its ardent supporters to a perennial playoff contender that ascended to the upper tier of the league.
Under the man commonly known as Thibs, the Knicks made the playoffs four of his five seasons with them, including the last three. He guided the Knicks to the third-most postseason wins in the league over the past three seasons (23), trailing only the Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets during that span. His 24 playoff wins (24-23 overall) are 17 more than the Knicks' previous 13 coaches combined.
This story is from the June 05, 2025 edition of New York Amsterdam News.
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