[Charania] The New York Knicks requested permission Wednesday morning to speak to Mavericks coach Jason Kidd – and Dallas gave a firm rejection, sources tell ESPN. Knicks have been denied now on Kidd, Minnesota’s Chris Finch and Houston’s Ime Udoka

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1. So that’s what their plan was??? Holy they look like fools

2. I wonder if the Knicks know they don’t have to hire a coach currently employed by another team.

3. The Knicks should request to speak to Doc Rivers next

4. Bro wtf are the Knicks doing. Fire Thibs with 0 plan and just try to poach head coaches from other successful teams?? What kind of arrogant mindset from ownership/front office is this lol

5. Mike Malone gotta be flabbergasted at this point.

6. Do the Knicks know that there’re head coaches that aren’t currently coaching an NBA team too lol

7. Knicks have some sort of rejection kink

8. Why not ask to speak to Steve Kerr? Maybe Rick Carlisle? Perhaps Mark Daigneault?

9. They need to ask for Darvin Ham

10. They should ask to speak to Willie Green next

11. Them re-hiring thibs would be the cherry on top. Lmao how embarrassing

12. We should see if thibs is interested, he’s recently become available

13. At this point just send a “u up?” text to every sitting head coach and see who bites

14. I don’t understand…. They are obviously going to get rejected. What is the angle if not just complete incompetence?

15. Is it normal to request to interview other teams HEAD coaches? And so many?

16. The Knicks desperate girl trying to steal married men

17. So… they *didn’t* have a plan then

18. lol why are they going after coaches of teams that are trying to build on something. These are teams that I could see making a leap next year.

19. Did the Knicks just assume other teams would be like ‘yeah man have our coach we’ll figure it out, happy to help’

20. Better call Kenny Smith lmao

21. The gang tries to find a coach

22. I hear Tom Thibodeau is available

23. Knicks broke up with their girlfriend and started asking out married women.

24. This is the equivalent of breaking up with your girlfriend and then hitting up all your friends asking them to be your rebound

25. This was an absurd list of coaches. I supported the Thibs firing and now I’m not so sure.

26. It’s like a dude going around asking married women to be his girlfriend. WTF is Leon Rose doing? Such a bad look for the organization.

27. Just hire the hologram of Red Auerbach.

28. 1) Thank god Dallas said NO.

    2) Nobody wants the Knicks coaching gig and it makes sense.

29. Maybe they should have done this before firing their manager

30. Why would Jason Kidd wanna go away from coaching cooper Flagg?

31. REHIRE THIBS crowd rise up

32. NGL I’m kinda hoping thibs gets rehired by the Knicks. Would be a hilarious end to this circus

33. My god, the arrogance of that franchise!

34. RIP NYK as Contenders: 2025-2025

35. Fired their coach with absolutely no plan

36. I’m sure whoever they get is gonna feel great that the Knicks decided they would rather publicly humiliate themselves this way rather than interviewing them. Dolan really held onto owning a respectable organization as long as he could, huh?

37. Embarrassing. If they don’t want any coaches that are actually available they probably shouldn’t have fired theirs.

38. Jeff Van Gundy would be much better suited than that Kid, Kidd.

39. This shit is funny as all hell. You could have run it back and got about the same result with the same coach, and now you look like a foolish organization.

40. The arrogance of that franchise is astounding. Like to go to a team that went to the Finals a year ago and another that was a #2 seed this year and ask if they can steal away their coach is WILD.