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Mike Brown Named New York Knicks Head Coach for 2025
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7/3/2025
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The NBA summer can often be dramatic whether it's free agency or blockbuster deals or heck
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head coaching hirings the offseason around the association always filled with drama and storylines
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no different yesterday afternoon DRS as we break it down here bright and early on a Thursday on
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the early line when the New York Knicks reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time
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in 25 years since 2000 and were booked as a favorite against the Indiana Pacers with home
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court advantage people started dreaming like it was 99 like the Knicks would get to the NBA Finals
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for the first time in 26 years why because Tom Thibodeau as the head coach had guided them there
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but when the Knicks came up short there was some question around Tibbs's future was he the guy to
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elevate this Knicks franchise to the stages they now expected to be the answer pretty quickly DRS
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was no as Leon Rose and that Knicks front office decided to axe Tom Thibodeau after five highly
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successful seasons in New York if you make that move for a guy that had brought you to new stages
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and new heights in recent franchise history we all think all right who is that next big fish the New
01:17
York Knicks are going to reel in Jay Wright Rick Pitino Dan Hurley all right a guy in the NBA Jason
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kidd Eric Spolstra the Knicks were denied and basically every head coaching inquiry they made so who do
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they settle on well it was made official yesterday the next head coach of the New York Knicks Mike Brown
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welcome to Madison Square Garden inside the world's most famous arena Mike Brown will be the new head
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coach DRS of the New York Knicks starting in 2025-26 upgrades are what you're always looking forward to
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when you're trying to win a championship and hear me out on this like Mike Brown is a very solid NBA coach
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but that's not what we were looking for in New York City like we were looking for next level who's going
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to be able to get us over the hump who's gonna be able to get us to the championship round who's gonna be
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able to win an NBA championship who's gonna invigorate the fan base because the fan base like
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Thibodeau but we used to joke about hey it's funny that they don't play any bench and you play five guys
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the entire season 82 games every minute of every game eventually catches up to you there were some
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deficiencies there I don't think anybody looked at the New York Knicks roster and said boy he's the
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reason why we didn't win this maybe some of the guys just didn't play as well so if you were under
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the thought process that coach Tibbs was hey maybe he's not good enough I want to go out and get a true
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tactician and the guys they tried to ask for Jason Kidd, Chris Finch, Imi Odoka, Quinn Snyder, Billy Donovan
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and those likes and maybe pulling Jay Wright out of the commentary booth to be their head coach
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because I just think what Knicks fans wanted to is because there was so much passion in that arena
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throughout the playoff run so much passion in the city that I truly believe if they got the head coach
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they wanted to like the fashion district would be exploding to like I can't wait for the press conference
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we'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
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wait and see approach I don't figure I don't you know you don't fire Tibbs Ben to sit back and say
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let's take a wait and see approach the next coach is supposed to be here to take that mantle and not
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say hey happy to be here in New York I'm here on one mission it's to win a championship that's what
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I was hired to do and have the fan base believe that
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you're as much better as well I don't want to use it right now
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you're Halloween you have to go from going down to a team that you aren't worth it
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they were almost there being on a team swift bus helping you out here that you're
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it's the same Usually let's all the options are all that you're hoping for
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you should come up there That sounds like this is enough people think
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social town that every day have not allowed to record this team to happen
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people think so if you've done some such cool issues
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events that all the Maggie were told this meeting
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that we were doing a team of variables, all thekeit helped push
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