The basketball world was stunned on Tuesday morning when news broke that the New York Knicks were firing coach Tom Thibodeau after the team’s elimination in the Eastern Conference finals at the hands of the Indiana Pacers.
Despite leading the team to at least 47 regular season wins and a playoff series win in each of the past three seasons—a feat no Knicks coach had accomplished since Jeff Van Gundy in the 1990s—the franchise decided it was time to move on from Thibodeau after five seasons.
