Knicks Face Crucial Crossroads: Will They Rise to the Challenge or Resist the Change?
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — When they fired Tom Thibodeau, the New York Knicks made their expectations abundantly clear. Even if you just produced the franchise’s most successful season in 25 years, and even if you’ve got the support of the prince of the city, just getting close to playing for an NBA championship is no longer enough.
The coach they hired to pick up where Thibodeau left off, then, understands his assignment.
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“Shoot, I don’t know if anybody has any higher expectations than me,” newly minted head coach Mike Brown told reporters Tuesday at the Knicks’ practice facility, where the team is set to open training camp ahead of a preseason trip to Abu Dhabi. “I love being in a position where you feel expectations. To me, that means there’s something of importance that you’re doing. […] We know what our job is at hand. It starts tomorrow, and it’s one step at a time. It’s every day, every practice, every shootaround. It’s in front of us. We have to attack it with abandon. And if we do, and we embrace what our roles are, we embrace the culture that we’re trying to build here, then good things are gonna happen.”



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