Tibodo will enter the club, which was represented by the best Latvian basketball player Kristaps Porziņģis from 2015 to 2019, with his demanding style and history of defensive innovations.
The change has been expected since Leon Rose became president of the team in March. However, negotiations on the deal were suspended this week, according to a source, leaving doubts about Tibodo’s inauguration and raising Jason Kid’s chances of a coach in New York.
ESPN reported that the Knicks had agreed to a five-year deal with Tibodo.
Rose and his chief executive, William Wesley, are said to have strong ties to Tibodo, but several job interviews were held with tough candidates, including Kid, Mike Woodson, Mike Miller and Kenya Atkinson. Woodson and Miller, both former head coaches of the Knicks, are candidates for Tibodo coaching staff as assistants, according to a source.
Tibodo, 62, arrives at the club with success and luggage. He played a huge role as an assistant coach of the defense type – first with the Knicks under Jeff van Gandhi, then with the Boston Celtics under Dock Rivers, and then he was promoted to head coach by one of the then mediocre league clubs in the Chicago Bulls. “shares.
Tibodo has also had problems with his relationship, with the Bulls leaving after a thawing relationship with club office staff Spirit Forman and John Jackson, despite the team’s best results since Michael Jordan’s era. He then took over Minnesota’s Timberwolves and clashed with both owner Glen Taylor and star Anthony Tauns, a star.
“The way the unit is run and the location of your team are different,” Tibodo told ESPN. “And if your team is young and you’re in the process of rebuilding, you may need to train more than the senior veterans team.”
“In some cases, when there are both young and old basketball players on the team, there are almost two training sessions in one, where the young guys do what they need and the veterans gain strength and functional training in the weight room,” Tibodo said.
Whatever the reasons for the end of his careers in Chicago and Minnesota, Tibodo has achieved a convincing victory. Together with the teams, he achieved a winning balance in six of the seven completed seasons as head coach. It is emphasized that the Bulls were worse before and after Tibodo, but under his leadership the Timberwolves entered the playoffs only once in the last 16 years of the unit.
The Knicks, on the other hand, have not seen a playoff since 2013. It is the worst team in the league since the 2014/2015 season.
Tibodo will be the club’s seventh head coach since 2014.
With the Knicks finishing fourth in the Eastern Conference this season with a balance of 21-45, the unit has not qualified for the end-of-season competition in Orlando, and it is unknown when the new coach will be able to start training.
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