One of the potential reasons the New York Knicks fired head coach Tom Thibodeau this week was the heavy minutes he played star point guard Jalen Brunson, one of the familiar critiques of Thibodeau's coaching style throughout his career.

Mere days after falling to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, the New York Knicks did the thing that NBA franchises do when they don’t know what to do: They canned their coach.In his 13 years as an NBA sideline general,

Tom Thibodeau and the New York Knicks ended up losing a hard-fought series in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Indiana Pacers last week. It was an incredibly entertaining series, but the Knicks simply did not have enough to pull out the win.