According to reports, Knicks who interviews Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori for the coach’s job after shooting Tom Thibodeau
After some initial incarities, the Coaching search for New York Knicks is starting to take shape. The team added another name to its list of candidates on Tuesday, according to reporting interviewing the minnesota Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori, according to Shams Charania by Espn.
Nori has been around the game for some time, acting as assistant coach from the NBA season 2009-10. He spent his first four years in that role with Toronto Raptors. After short stops with the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets and Detroit Pistons, Nori has spent the last four seasons as the protagonist assistant of the Timberwolves.
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Nori has no experience as head coach, even if he briefly played the role after Chris Finch torn the Rotulean tendon following a collision with Mike Conley in game 4 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs of 2024. Nori trained the team for the last minute and a half.
The Timberwolves led by three points when Finch was injured. The team continued to win the 122-116 competition.
Finch has returned to train the team’s next game – the Western Conference Semifinals Series against the Denver Nugget – although Nori was accused of managing the game interaction and the game flow, “said Finch at the time. Due to the injury, Finch was not able to sit on the sidelines and was unable to get up to call the timeout or interact with the players in the field. Timberwolves won the first two games of the series before falling on the Nuggets in seven games.
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