On the April 9th, 2025 edition of the New York Sports Minute, Brandon London reacts to the Knicks getting swept in their regular season series against the Celtics after New York failed to close out Boston in regulation.
It is a brutal business. It has always been a brutal business. Red Holzman won 613 games with the Knicks. He won two titles here. And yet there came a time after back-to-back losing seasons in 1976 and ’77 when he was nudged upstairs, to the front office, and Willis Reed was given the job without a minute of prior coaching experience.
Red was too dignified to say anything while his old captain was on the bench, but when he was asked to return less than two seasons later, he did have a few wry observations about the business he had chosen. “I’m not any smarter a coach today than I was yesterday,” Holzman said. “And I don’t think I got dumber in my final few years than I was when we had winning records.”Tom Thibodeau on Nuggets coach Michael Malone’s surprise firing: “It’s an unfortunate part of the business. I’ve known Michael for decades, he’s a great coach. You hate to see it.”than he’d been in the almost nine years he’d previously spent coaching the Nuggets, including to an NBA title two years ago. It was the same way that Taylor Jenkins, when he was canned after the better part of six years in which he’d helped lead the Grizzlies to new heights and two 50-plus win seasons, on the verge of a third.Tom Thibodeau on Nuggets coach Michael Malone's surprise firing:"It's an unfortunate part of the business. I've known Michael for decades, he's a great coach. You hate to see it."How Trent Grisham is turning these Yankees worries upside down
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