Antonio Losada is a computer scientist with an MS in Artificial Intelligence who decided to throw away a career in Academia to blog about the Knicks at P&T and successfully survived the sophomore slump solidifying himself as a bonafide starter.
Rick Carlisle has won two championships, one as a player in 1986 and one as a head coach in 2011. The last one came after making a bold adjustment—going against the Miami Heatles in the Finals—by slotting JJ Barea in the starting lineup.
Tom Thibodeau has not won a championship as the head honcho of any organization, and judging by the first two games of this series (as if there wasn’t prior enough evidence already), he will retire without one.