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On Wednesday, the Knicks hosted the crosstown Brooklyn Nets. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons, and Joe Harris were all out. The Knicks needed to come out ...

The best lines here feel destined to be clipped and used as Twitter reactions forever. But if you thought the Knicks were well on their way to victory, you haven’t watched enough of the 2021-22 Knicks. Lucky you. They knew were witnesses the type of greatness that only Smith can offer. The Nets stormed back behind some hot shooting from rookie guard Cam Thomas, and stole a 111-106 win. Unfortunately for the Knicks, the good vibes ended as soon as the postseason started, and they were summarily wrecked by the Atlanta Hawks in five games. The Knicks needed to come out strong against such a limited Brooklyn lineup, and they did exactly that: the Knicks opened up a 28-point lead in the second quarter.

After watching his team cough up a 28-point lead against the Nets, Tom Thibodeau said "everything's on the table now" with the Knicks and that players will ...

"And I understand that; we all have jobs to do. And then bring it to the group, and then get the spirit of the team together. And that's got to be the primary focus, the spirit of the team. "You get a big lead, you got to play tough with a lead," Thibodeau said. It's not X's and O's. It's having the resiliency to overcome and lately we haven't been able to do that. You have to play tough with a lead, and so we didn't do that."

It's time for the Knicks to fire Tom Thibodeau. There are three big reasons why it is time for another coaching change.

The Knicks shocked the league last year because of several surprise contributors. Falling apart down the stretch and showing little urgency is a recipe guaranteed to yield losses and frustration. A blown 28-point lead to the Brooklyn Nets heading into the All-Star break is their latest disasterpiece. New York has had a bad history with coaches in recent years and he has become the latest person who proved to be ill-equipped for the job. On offense, the Knicks frequently resort to a series of isolation attacks and dribble hand-offs back to the ball handler. According to SNY’s Ian Begley, Knicks executive vice president William Wesley is pointing to Thibodeau’s coaching as a reason for the team’s miserable performance this season.

New York blew a 28-point lead in the game and a 14-point lead going into the fourth quarter. Brooklyn played the game without Kevin Durant, who is injured, ...

The Brooklyn Nets will travel to Madison Square Garden to face the Knicks on Wednesday. Here's the prediction, betting odds, and TV channel for Feb. 16.

New York didn’t make any trades before the Feb. 10 deadline either. The Nets looked like a completely different team on Monday night and because of Curry and Andre Drummond, they were. Alec Burks led the Knicks with 25 points. The Brooklyn Nets will travel to Madison Square Garden to face the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. Seth Curry led the Nets with 23 points (10-of-18), seven rebounds, and five assists in his debut. Julius Randle scored a team-high 30 points (11-of-26) along with 13 rebounds and 10 assists.

Thibodeau is taking New York down a road we've seen before when he coached Chicago and Minnesota.

That's a fact Thibodeau has never accepted, and a big part of the reasons the Knicks this season are an afterthought. Players are not robots, nor gladiators, and this is not the 1980s. Take Randle, a walking avatar for a Thibodeau team. But the inevitable always arrives, especially for Thibodeau teams. The Knicks trajectory under Thibodeau is not new. They did in Chicago -- a stretch of four largely successful seasons that still trended downward as the Thibodeau years bore down. The Thibodeau Paradox -- both excellence and failure guaranteed, in rapid succession -- is already at play. Last season, Thibodeau's first in New York, the Knicks boasted the league's third-best defense. Yes, Derrick Rose went from the youngest MVP in league history to an injury-diminished version of his former self. The Knicks are bad, yes, for a myriad of reasons. One could imagine, almost, that if Thibodeau were the commissioner, he would push for back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-backs just for the sheer nonstop basketball of it, the consequences be damned. The Brooklyn Nets made a big move, landing Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and picks.