{"id":142981,"date":"2025-07-03T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/142981\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:51:13","slug":"answering-mike-brown-questions-that-loom-over-knicks-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/142981\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering Mike Brown questions that loom over Knicks hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks completed their head coaching search on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/02\/sports\/knicks-hiring-mike-brown-to-lead-new-era-with-heightened-expectations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiring Mike Brown<\/a>. You probably have questions. The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy has answers:<\/p>\n<p>Q: Doesn\u2019t this feel \u2026 meh?<\/p>\n<p>A: Yeah, that\u2019s what happens when the team takes aim at other candidates first \u2014 in this case, people under contract \u2014 and the end result is a coach who already has been fired four times. If you told us during the conference finals that the Knicks would can Tom Thibodeau and hire Mike Brown, we\u2019d have shouted, \u201cBullspit.\u201d But it happened. And it\u2019s understandable if the initial response is \u201cmeh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Brown encourages his players in the first half during an NBA Western Conference semifinal game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City in May 2017. EPA<\/p>\n<p>Q: Is Brown really a better fit for a championship team than Tom Thibodeau? If so, how?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks completed their head coaching search on Wednesday, hiring Mike Brown. You probably have questions. The Post\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,7093,3357,6,191,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-142981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-leon-rose","10":"tag-mike-brown","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114786565282646984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}