Mike Brown has yet to coach a single game for the Knicks, yet there may be no coach in the entire league who is under more pressure this season. Anything less than a trip to the NBA finals would make the season a failure.
The Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau after he helped turn the franchise around over the last five years, before leading them to their first Eastern Conference Finals appearance in 25 years. The logic for the firing was simple: Thibodeau was the right man to turn the franchise around; he was not the right man to lead them to a title.