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Former Suns point guard Jared Harper became Knicks president Leon Rose’s first player acquisition last month. Now Harper is waiting — as everyone is — to talk to Rose’s first head-coaching hire. Since the Knicks obtained Harper on June 25, he’s had conversations with Rose and Knicks GM Scott Perry. The 5-foot-11 speedster said he …
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Knicks big man Taj Gibson and Mayor Bill de Blasio shared a stage in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday in the blazing sun, wearing masks, preaching a theme of Black Lives Matter and about stopping gun violence. Perhaps soon, Gibson, the Fort Greene native, will share a podium with another leader, Tom Thibodeau, his former coach in …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. What is your view of [Mike] Woodson as a coach? My personal opinion is that he is …
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While five of the Knicks’ 11 coaching candidates are in the Orlando bubble game-planning for the NBA restart, others such as Tom Thibodeau are waiting on Knicks president Leon Rose’s decision a different way. Thibodeau, considered the leading candidate, is passing away the time poring over Knicks game film as he awaits a possible job …
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B.J. Armstrong, former Bulls guard and current agent for Derrick Rose, has been in awe of how well Tom Thibodeau got along with his client. Rose became the league’s youngest MVP at age 22 under Thibodeau’s watch in 2011. Then Rose followed the coach from Chicago to Minnesota. Armstrong calls it “a beautiful relationship.’’ The …
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Knicks owner James Dolan passed on one Nigerian basketball brain in Masai Ujiri to be president. Some feel Dolan should take a harder look at a Nigerian-American in Ime Udoka to be head coach. Tim Shea, the former Knicks director of international scouting and assistant Olympic coach for Nigeria, says hiring Udoka would be a …
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Entering the process, the sense around the league was the 10 other Knicks coaching candidates would need knock it out of the park to unseat strong favorite Tom Thibodeau. While sources says Jason Kidd wowed Knicks brass with “a great interview,” it might not be enough to topple Thibodeau, whose relationship with Knicks president Leon …
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“Iso Zo” is back on his own. Allonzo Trier, the undrafted Arizona guard whose promising rookie start earned him a two-year contract with the Knicks, was waived Friday, as the Knicks claimed former Nets wing Theo Pinson off waivers. Pinson, 24, was waived by the Nets on Tuesday after appearing in 51 games with the …
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Rasheed Wallace has bad news for Knicks fans who think the only direction the franchise can go is up. The former Knicks big man called the recent front office hirings a “brain fart,” claiming that hiring a former agent in Leon Rose to be president, and his longtime friend and CAA consultant William Wesley as …
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With their season officially over, the Knicks are back in the market for a head coach and have 11 known candidates lined up for interviews. There is a wide range of experience, backgrounds and connections to the organization, with president Leon Rose looking for someone who can take the Knicks “from development to becoming a …
Former Suns point guard Jared Harper became Knicks president Leon Rose’s first player acquisition last month. Now Harper is waiting — as everyone is — to talk to Rose’s first head-coaching hire. Since the Knicks obtained Harper on June 25, he’s had conversations with Rose and Knicks GM Scott Perry. The 5-foot-11 speedster said he …
