Carlisle, the longtime NBA head coach, has received endless praise over the offseason as he's helped lead the Pacers through the Eastern Conference and now to a lead in the NBA Finals over the league's best regular season team. Barkley's only kidding, but with how the Knicks have went about their coaching search, don't put anything past them.

The New York Knicks are heading into what feels like a make-or-break moment in their pursuit of that long-awaited NBA championship. After the surprise firing of Head Coach Tom Thibodeau, the front office is wasting no time.

The Athletic's James L. Edwards III and Fred Katz reported that the Knicks added Tucker to the fold because the front office "believed the locker room needed more leadership, a presence to help with communication issues that had plagued the group both on and off the court all season."

Amidst all of the chaos surround the New York Knicks' ongoing coaching search, a process that's seen an eventful first week of action, it can be easy to forget

When Kidd left the Bucks for the Nets in 2014, Milwaukee had to trade two second-round draft picks to Brooklyn to get the Hall of Famer. The Knicks would have to send draft compensation to Dallas to get Kidd, who has two years left on his contract with the Mavericks.

New York Knicks superstar point guard and team captain Jalen Brunson has experienced tremendous growth with the team. All of that growth came with Tom Thibodeau as his head coach since he signed with New York in 2022,

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The pair of Knicks offered kind words for their former coach, who was fired despite leading the team to the conference finals for the first time since 2000.