Knicks' Controversial Decision to Fire Tom Thibodeau

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00:00i don't understand the knicks at all firing this guy for one second all he did was win

00:07and then what he's too tough he doesn't handle rotations right his bench guys how about leon

00:12effing rose never gave him a bench right right make all those good points you know i would think

00:19jason kidd would think to now he's been in the garden he knows what it's all about he played

00:24there you know leon rose talked to him before he hired tibito so there's a connection there

00:28but why the mavericks i don't know if the mavericks are ready to let jason kidd walk and of course

00:33they're just not gonna let him walk there has to be compensation since he's under contract

00:38right any of these coaches that they're talking about chris finch eme adoka who the rockets are

00:44not allowing uh you know he's not going anywhere but if you have a situation with a coach under

00:49contract he isn't going anywhere unless the knicks provide compensation money whatever it is now it'll

00:56be interesting to see if they give the knicks permission if they give the knicks permission

01:00what does that tell you about the mavericks and jason kidd if they really love him and want him to coach

01:07cooper flag wouldn't they deny permission in the first place and say get lost yes we'll see how this

01:12plays out but going back to tibito listen they had it in for tom all the stuff that's been leaked out

01:19about his bench about guys not knowing their roles about his offense not being creative enough

01:25that's all a bunch of nonsense they didn't want tom tibito around anymore and there are people in the

01:32front office worldwide well william wesley west wesley who's looking to get rid of him and the people

01:38have the ear of james dolan right they have the power there whether it's him i can't believe

01:45that leon rose who goes back a long time with tom tibito represented him at one point friends with

01:51tom tibito i can't believe that leon rose after they go to the eastern conference finals a couple

01:56days after he's going to sit there and say that we got to fire you it's got to be a jim dolan

02:01production with these other snakes in the front office who want tom out because he doesn't play

02:06the players they brought in or he doesn't listen to them or he pays them no mind it's a mess in the

02:12garden once again that's the way jim dolan historically has handled things except for

02:17these last couple of years successfully on the court it's always been a mess with him and the

02:22front office and the people who are looking to undermine their coaches he's been the best coach

02:26they've had in 30 years no doubt they should have gotten a raise if i'm the owner of the team and i just

02:33went to the eastern conference finals i won 10 playoff games for the first time since 1999 when they

02:38went to the finals and lost to the spurs he's not getting fired i'm telling my front office guys

02:43you're gonna want him fired i'm giving this guy a raise he's gonna be around for next year and i

02:48thought everything was great in new york people were celebrating on the streets as if they had won the

02:52title to put up street signs for players named i saw a thing online where jim dolan is handing a

02:57basketball out to kids after a great victory celebrating a victory usually people want nothing to do with

03:03james dolan if you're a nick fan because you know he's bad news in a lot of ways so it doesn't make

03:08any sense at all and you know you have to feel for tom because even though he knew what he was getting

03:13into when he worked because he worked there before he knows all the stuff that happens in the garden

03:18here's a guy who basically just you know all right he's handsomely paid but here's a guy who gave

03:24everything he had to get the knicks back to relevancy which they finally accomplished and this is how they pay

03:31him off 30 million though that's a fantastic golden parachute uh there's no better deal in sports

03:38no question no question listen i don't know if there's an offset meaning if he gets another job

03:43that 30 million goes away but listen jim dolan can afford the 30 million that's not the issue

03:49just like you know when phil jackson years ago and he and dolan were talking about having a role

03:55all phil wanted to do was have a role of you know i'll be an advisor i'll take two million dollars a

04:00year and then jim dolan said oh heck with that i can give you five years 60 million dollars

04:05what's phil jackson supposed to do say no to that so jim dolan has a history of overpaying people that's

04:11why when people say to me why would anybody want to go to the garden with all this nonsense going in

04:16with the front office interfering and all this all this stuff that's going on the the backscabbing

04:21and everything i say everybody's got a price and jim dolan will usually meet it and exceed it

04:25you

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