{"id":88155,"date":"2025-06-10T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/88155\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:59:15","slug":"former-nuggets-coach-michael-malone-lauded-as-potential-pick-for-knicks-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/88155\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nuggets coach Michael Malone lauded as potential pick for Knicks job"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Knicks having \u201cbecome a championship-or-bust team\u201d after firing coach Tom Thibodeau<\/a>, \u201cwhere they ought to go\u201d is with hiring former Nuggets coach Michael Malone, according to Mike Lupica of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. Malone is \u201cout there and very much available at the age of 53.\u201d Pro Football HOFer Bill Parcells \u201cused to talk about having pelts on the wall,\u201d and Malone has \u201cone more than either\u201d Knicks owner James Dolan or President Leon Rose. There is \u201cnothing right or fair about what happened to Thibodeau.\u201d With a \u201cpress release instead of a press conference, Rose looks both gutless and gutty at the same time.\u201d He also \u201clooks like one of the smallest guys we\u2019ve ever had around here in a job like his when he won\u2019t come out from under his desk to face the media\u201d (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6\/7<\/a>). In Denver, Troy Renck wrote Malone \u201cbrings an edge and competitiveness that translates to players, and he is adept at dealing with the media.\u201d The Knicks are \u201cin championship-or-bust mode, operating like the Yankees overnight.\u201d For \u201call the similarities between Thibodeau and Malone, there is one huge difference: Malone has a ring.\u201d Rose \u201chad to have someone in mind before making the unpopular decision to fire Thibs,\u201d and \u201cno one is more qualified to lead the Knicks\u201d than Malone (DENVER POST, 6\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n

TRUST THE PROCESS? In N.Y., Mike Vaccaro wrote Rose has \u201ccrafted this team with patient wisdom over five years.\u201d Now, Rose \u201casks that he be trusted to hire Tom Thibodeau\u2019s successor, and that taking part in the exile of Thibs was warranted.\u201d He had \u201cbetter be right\u201d (N.Y. POST, 6\/7<\/a>). In Boston, Gary Washburn wrote Thibodeau is \u201cbeing unfairly blamed for the organization\u2019s shortcomings.\u201d It was Rose\u202fwho \u201ctraded five first-round picks for\u202fthe solid but not spectacular Mikal Bridges.\u201d It was Rose who \u201ctraded two of their tougher players — Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo\u201d — to the T\u2019Wolves for the \u201cskilled, not always gritty Karl-Anthony Towns\u201d (BOSTON GLOBE, 6\/7<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Knicks having \u201cbecome a championship-or-bust team\u201d after firing coach Tom Thibodeau, \u201cwhere they ought to go\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,7457,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-88155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-leadership","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114656835243794564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88155","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=88155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}