Nobody is safe from the New York Knicks' head coaching search after the franchise reached out to five teams in hopes of interviewing their sitting head coaches. All of those requests? Denied.
New York's hopeful optimism led to plenty of jokes from basketball fans about the strategy the Knicks took to begin their search to replace Tom Thibodeau, who the team parted ways with after their run to the Eastern Conference finals this year. NBA analyst and basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley joked that the Knicks could be waiting out the conclusion of the NBA Finals to make even more unwanted requests.
