Knicks Coaching Search Update: Kidd does not leave Dallas, James Borrego to interview in New York
The Knicks coaching search continues to crawl together with another former coach, James Borrego, who was interviewed. And if the fans of the Knicks (or people in their front office) hoped that Jason Kidd’s situation in Dallas could change, Nico Harrison crushed him as a cockroach this week.
This weekend, The Knicks will interview the former Hornets and the current assistant coach of the Pellicani James Borrego, A story broken by James Edwards III of The Athletic It is confirmed by more other Knicks journalists.
Borrego has the reputation of a creative offensive coach and led by the analysis, which would be a change of style by the coach who is interviewing to replace, Tom Thibodeau. While Borrego has completed a record of 138-163 in four seasons with Charlotte, this underestimates the work he did with a list of reconstructions. It seemed that he had the team perhaps shooting a corner, the Hornets seemed to improve every year and won 43 games in his last season (who did not play the playoffs in the East of that year). Borrego is also a Caa customer, the company in which the president of Knicks Leon Rose had worked.
The Knicks previously interviewed the former coach of Grizzlies Taylor Jenkins, former Cavaliers/Lakers/Kings Mike Brown and Timberwolves, assistant Mikah Nori for work.
A guy who the Knicks do not interview is Jason Kidd. New York contacted Dallas with a request to interview Kidd several weeks ago and was shot down, but it was not enough to kill the rumors. The theory was actually Kidd, secretly, wanted the work of Knicks – despite the Maverks simply landed Cooper Flagg with choice n. 1 – And he would have put pressure on Dallas to change his mind. Those rumors were presented to the Mavericks Nico Harrison Hours after selecting Flagg, and it seemed surprised that someone thought it, and then it crushed them officially and unequivocally As mentioned by Christian Clark at Athletic.
“Are there still rumors out on J-Kidd?” Harrison said. “I was thinking of closing them. Yes, he will be the coach next year.”
Can we go on now?
Borrego is now the favorite of bets to replace Thibodeau, but there is still no clear frontunner. Anyone who has the job will have difficult shoes to fill because in his five years at the helm of the Knicks Thibodeau has brought the team to the playoffs for the moments – the same number of apparitions to the playoffs that the team had in the 20 years before becoming coach – and the first finals of the team western conference in 25 years. There was a segment of Knicks Nation, and apparently a large segment of the front office of Knicks, who thought that the message and style of Thibodeau had worn out in the changing rooms and had brought them as much as possible. The idea was that if the Knicks wanted to win a title, they needed a new coach. However, Thibodeau was fired without an update between wings or even a succession plan.
So the process continues since we are three days after the start of the free agency.