Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, left, gives instructions during a timeout in the second half of the team's NBA game against the Magic Feb. 17 in Orlando, Fla. Credit: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack
On the day the NBA suspended its season a year ago, Tom Thibodeau was out of work, having been fired a little more than a year earlier by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
But as you might expect, rather than sunning himself somewhere, he was attending the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, studying up on the latest trends and numbers in preparation for the day his chance would come again, and on his way to Milwaukee to sit in on Bucks practices with the coaching staff.