For Tom Thibodeau, reaching the final of the Eastern Conference was not enough. The coach discovered this harsh reality on Tuesday, when the New York Knicks showed him the door.
Thibodeau was only the last NBA coach with a success experience to lose his job this season, joining Michael Malone (Nuggets) and Taylor Jenkins (Grizzlies). Thibodeau’s shots were even surprising enough for Rick Carlisle, whose Indiana pacers ended the Knicks season, said he thought that the news was “One of these false things has. “It was too real.
However, the world of sport continued to shoot this week, and the news was not all negative, the pacers facing Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA final, and the Florida Panthers and the EDMonton Oilers locking horns during the Stanley Cup final. Heck, even the Colorado rockies, which entered the week with a 9-50 record, made a kind of radiator.
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