Knicks' Coaching Search Faces Multiple Interview Rejections

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00:00next coaching search which has this additional wrinkled the rs in the last 10-15 minutes

00:05sham shirania reporting the new york knicks did in fact request permission on this wednesday

00:11morning to speak to mavs head coach jason kidd and dallas gave a firm rejection of course we

00:19shared earlier in our opening hour the knicks also reached out to minnesota about chris finch

00:25in houston about email doka and got a firm rejection in both of those spots as well but

00:31in our discussions yesterday drs with cp the franchise he kind of made it seem that the

00:36sense around this knicks organization at least the new york fan base was kind of fully in on jason

00:43kidd as that front runner and then deal with everybody else if kid was not a reality it seems

00:49here that jason kidd is no longer a reality to be that next knicks head coach it doesn't and

00:56understand this too like thibodeau was a good coach for the knicks this is a team that didn't have a

01:01lot of success let's just say for 25 years back-to-back 50 win seasons i don't know if the

01:06players you know out front weren't saying like hey man you'll be awesome if tibbs got fired jalen

01:11brunson wasn't saying that maybe had a little bit of issue with carl anthony towns and playing some

01:14defense and he wasn't doing that but make no mistake about this like if you are the knicks ownership

01:19group you fired tom tibodeau why ben because you have your coach already in hand basically saying

01:25to yourself i just got to pick up the phone in 24 hours and make this happen so the fact that you

01:30fired tibodeau like all right uh let's talk to the best coach in the nba yeah you can't talk to them

01:34uh jay wright nova knicks baby that's it yeah you don't want it either uh i wonder where we're

01:39going to go now uh tibbs do you want to come back like are we at that point right now like what's

01:43going on with the knicks

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