Mike Brown Named New York Knicks Head Coach for 2025

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00:00The NBA summer can often be dramatic whether it's free agency or blockbuster deals or heck

00:05head coaching hirings the offseason around the association always filled with drama and storylines

00:12no different yesterday afternoon DRS as we break it down here bright and early on a Thursday on

00:18the early line when the New York Knicks reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time

00:23in 25 years since 2000 and were booked as a favorite against the Indiana Pacers with home

00:31court advantage people started dreaming like it was 99 like the Knicks would get to the NBA Finals

00:37for the first time in 26 years why because Tom Thibodeau as the head coach had guided them there

00:44but when the Knicks came up short there was some question around Tibbs's future was he the guy to

00:50elevate this Knicks franchise to the stages they now expected to be the answer pretty quickly DRS

00:57was no as Leon Rose and that Knicks front office decided to axe Tom Thibodeau after five highly

01:04successful seasons in New York if you make that move for a guy that had brought you to new stages

01:10and new heights in recent franchise history we all think all right who is that next big fish the New

01:17York Knicks are going to reel in Jay Wright Rick Pitino Dan Hurley all right a guy in the NBA Jason

01:25kidd Eric Spolstra the Knicks were denied and basically every head coaching inquiry they made so who do

01:31they settle on well it was made official yesterday the next head coach of the New York Knicks Mike Brown

01:39welcome to Madison Square Garden inside the world's most famous arena Mike Brown will be the new head

01:46coach DRS of the New York Knicks starting in 2025-26 upgrades are what you're always looking forward to

01:53when you're trying to win a championship and hear me out on this like Mike Brown is a very solid NBA coach

01:59but that's not what we were looking for in New York City like we were looking for next level who's going

02:04to be able to get us over the hump who's gonna be able to get us to the championship round who's gonna be

02:08able to win an NBA championship who's gonna invigorate the fan base because the fan base like

02:13Thibodeau but we used to joke about hey it's funny that they don't play any bench and you play five guys

02:17the entire season 82 games every minute of every game eventually catches up to you there were some

02:21deficiencies there I don't think anybody looked at the New York Knicks roster and said boy he's the

02:25reason why we didn't win this maybe some of the guys just didn't play as well so if you were under

02:30the thought process that coach Tibbs was hey maybe he's not good enough I want to go out and get a true

02:35tactician and the guys they tried to ask for Jason Kidd, Chris Finch, Imi Odoka, Quinn Snyder, Billy Donovan

02:40and those likes and maybe pulling Jay Wright out of the commentary booth to be their head coach

02:45because I just think what Knicks fans wanted to is because there was so much passion in that arena

02:49throughout the playoff run so much passion in the city that I truly believe if they got the head coach

02:54they wanted to like the fashion district would be exploding to like I can't wait for the press conference

02:58we're on our way to an NBA championship but now we look at it it's like okay it's Mike Brown it's a

03:03wait and see approach I don't figure I don't you know you don't fire Tibbs Ben to sit back and say

03:09let's take a wait and see approach the next coach is supposed to be here to take that mantle and not

03:13say hey happy to be here in New York I'm here on one mission it's to win a championship that's what

03:18I was hired to do and have the fan base believe that

03:21you're as much better as well I don't want to use it right now

03:25you're Halloween you have to go from going down to a team that you aren't worth it

03:29they were almost there being on a team swift bus helping you out here that you're

03:33it's the same Usually let's all the options are all that you're hoping for

03:36you should come up there That sounds like this is enough people think

03:37social town that every day have not allowed to record this team to happen

03:41people think so if you've done some such cool issues

03:43events that all the Maggie were told this meeting

03:46that we were doing a team of variables, all thekeit helped push

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