Inside the Knicks’ Secret Formula That Could Finally End Their Championship Drought
Step 5: Zigging When Others Would Have Zagged
The last piece of the puzzle was the decision to make a change at head coach last season.
Tom Thibodeau was the conductor of the most successful stretch of Knicks basketball this century. Most teams would have kept him beyond his five seasons, especially after he guided them to the 2025 Eastern Conference finals (their longest postseason run in 25 years).
But Rose felt Thibodeau was not the coach capable of getting them to an even higher level, so he replaced him with Mike Brown. The now 56-year-old coaching veteran reinvented the offense, trusted his bench (which kept his starters from being run to the ground), and squeezed the most out of a defense that displayed some warts against the Indiana Pacers in last year’s playoffs.
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