After two straight losses by a combined 81 points, the New York Knicks fired David Fizdale and his head assistant Keith Smart on Friday.
The Knicks promoted assistant coach Mike Miller to interim head coach in a corresponding move. Miller has been with the Knicks organization since 2015, in that time he has proven he deserves a chance to improve the team before they search elsewhere.
Miller has been coaching basketball since 1990 and got his first head coaching job in 1994 at Texas State. In his six-year tenure, Miller earned a record of 87-79, won two regular-season championships and won the Southland Conference Tournament in 1997 guaranteeing Texas State an NCAA Tournament appearance, somewhere they have not been since Miller’s tenure.