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Knicks fire Tom Thibodeau
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He's the reason why drose ain't talk about being the top 5 best guards in NBA history.. cause he ran him to the ground. Fuck tibbs for life
If thibs doesn't get another head coaching job, he'll either be on the bench as a staff with rivers or becoming a analyst.
It was a matter of time and thibs hasn't learned his lesson about running his players into the ground.
KAT has gotten hurt and thibs don't even give him enough rest until he's back in the game.
It was a matter of time and thibs hasn't learned his lesson about running his players into the ground.
KAT has gotten hurt and thibs don't even give him enough rest until he's back in the game.
The same series ..Noah injury.. dumb ass thibbs actually started noah the next game..nig couldn’t even run up the court and hardly could stand..he eventually sat down..fuck thibbs for life
As a Heat fan, I can admit that Thibs did not deserve this.
The best comment I saw was in on ESPN's Youtube comment section...
"Imagine u couldn't get a car to start for 25 years and finally when you find a mechanic that can get it running, you fire him because it didn't win the street race you entered."
The Luka trade, the Malone firing, and now the Thibodeau firing....?
This was a weird season for front offices in the NBA.
The best comment I saw was in on ESPN's Youtube comment section...
"Imagine u couldn't get a car to start for 25 years and finally when you find a mechanic that can get it running, you fire him because it didn't win the street race you entered."
The Luka trade, the Malone firing, and now the Thibodeau firing....?
This was a weird season for front offices in the NBA.
Not weird, just a sign of the times.
Leon Rose was a sports agent. You have several FO execs now like Daryl Morey and Sam Presti who are statisticians. The leadership styles have changed.
Yes, yes I want to see this
He ran Loul Deng into the ground too!
Exactly… rip Hamilton was also a suit wearing motherfucker
Dolen is a curse on the NY Knicks franchise. Can't wait to see either him sell the team or... well, you know.
This team has always been a bunch of chronic habiual dicksucking bitches always on the blade. Everybody in the organization and their fans can eat a homeless man's shit before sucking a HIV infected dick and die tonight! You fucking skanks.
sadly you're just going to have to wait on the latter...
Sports management
In 1994, Paramount Communications, the owner of Madison Square Garden, was acquired by Viacom, who in turn sold the MSG properties to Cablevision and ITT Corporation, which had 50% ownership each. ITT sold its share to Cablevision three years later.
In 1999, Dolan was given an increased role in managing Cablevision's sports properties and is now the primary manager of these assets. The teams under his domain include most notably the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks, the National Hockey League's New York Rangers, and the American Hockey League's Hartford Wolf Pack. Dolan also formerly owned the Women's National Basketball Association's New York Liberty, which he sold to Joseph Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai in 2019.
As Chairman of Madison Square Garden, he supervises day-to-day operations of its professional sports teams and regional sports networks, which include MSG Network and MSG Plus. He is a governor of the Knicks and Rangers to their respective leagues.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-15"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a>
Controversies
New York Knicks
Like the Rangers, the Knicks performed abysmally in the early 2000s. Unlike the Rangers, they have yet to fully recover, which fans mostly blame on Dolan's management missteps.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-16"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a> Although the Knicks made the NBA Finals in 1999, they did not post another winning season until the 2012–13 season. Furthermore, the Knicks did not make the playoffs at any point between the 2003–04 and 2010–11 seasons, which both ended in the first round with four-game sweeps of the Knicks. In 2007, NBA Commissioner David Stern criticized Dolan's management of the Knicks, saying "they're not a model of intelligent management."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-18"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a>
In 2007, Dolan was named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit submitted by a former Knicks executive, Anucha Browne-Sanders. Browne-Sanders accused Dolan of firing her out of spite after she complained about sexual harassment from Isiah Thomas. The court ruled in favor of Brown-Sanders and Dolan had to pay $3 million of the $11 million settlement. MSG was responsible for paying the remainder of the settlement.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-19"><span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a>
New York Rangers
After winning the Stanley Cup in 1994, the Rangers saw a decline in performance in the wake of Dolan's increased role in managing the team and failed to make the playoffs from the 1997–98 season until the 2004–05 NHL lockout, despite leading the league in payroll in most of those years. This was the longest playoff drought in the franchise's history, in part due to questionable, expensive free-agent signings, such as Eric Lindros, Pavel Bure, and Theo Fleury. However, since the resolution of the NHL lockout in 2005, Dolan allowed general manager Glen Sather to rebuild the team from the ground up. That rebuild led to a revival of the club and the organization. The improvement was obvious when the team made it to the Eastern Conference finals in 2012, for the first since 1997. The team finally made it back to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2014, 20 years after they last won the cup.[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2025)">citation needed</span></a></em>]
In 2022, it was reported that Dolan had instituted a policy of using facial recognition at his venues to prevent admission to attorneys whose law firms were engaged in legal disputes with Dolan and his businesses, even when those attorneys had legitimate tickets to the show or event. This led to lawsuits and an investigation into whether Dolan's venues should be stripped of their state-issued liquor licenses.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-20"><span>[</span>20<span>]</span></a>
New York Liberty
On May 5, 2015, Dolan announced that Isiah Thomas would be president of the WNBA's Liberty. Considering Thomas' history being both a failed President/GM of the Knicks and Thomas being implicated in the Anucha Browne-Sanders sexual harassment incident, Dolan's judgment was questioned by many fans and members of the press.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-21"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-22"><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-23"><span>[</span>23<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-24"><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a> After Dolan sold the Liberty to Joseph Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, the new owners promptly relieved Thomas of his duties with the Liberty on February 21, 2019.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dolan#cite_note-25"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a>
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