"People say all the right things and do none of them. "There's a lot of fake stuff in our league, let's be honest," Thibodeau said. Donovan Mitchell returns to MSG as the villain: 'The environment is going to be crazy'.Thibodeau knew immediately he had found the right player to lead his team. Twelve years later, the trio was reunited, when, after Rick Brunson had rejoined Thibodeau's staff in New York, Jalen Brunson inked a four-year, $104 million deal with the Knicks. One of Thibodeau's first moves was to hire Rick Brunson, Jalen's father, to be a Bulls assistant. Thibodeau, now in his third season as the Knicks' coach, spent more than 20 years as an NBA assistant before getting his first chance to be a head coach with the Chicago Bulls in 2010. I've seen it from afar - he's going to push me no matter if I have 48 or four. "I've been around his philosophies for a long time, so I guess I'm used to it. "I think being around him for a long time, knowing the trust that my dad has in him, I've been around it," Brunson told ESPN. But the pair knows the basketball truth - that their paths were destined to cross. On the surface, the two have formed the unlikeliest of partnerships - an old-school, defense-first coach with a small, offense-first point guard. Tom Thibodeau and Jalen Brunson have history that goes back way before Brunson's debut season in New York this year. Wearing a bracelet adorned with his favorite mantra, he smiles, too. Minutes after the buzzer, Brunson stands in the middle of a crowded hallway in the bowels of the arena as chipper Knicks personnel prepare the bus for the trip to the airport. It's a performance so impressive even the stoic curmudgeon Tom Thibodeau has no choice but to crack a grin. The 26-year-old, a revelation in his first season in New York, scores a career-high 48 points and leads the Knicks to a rousing 130-116 win. former 2018 second-round pick Jalen Brunson. At the center of it all are two explosive, dynamic guards - Donovan Mitchell and.
The game doesn't disappoint, a relentless back-and-forth featuring a Knicks team playing without All-Star forward Julius Randle.
Inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, the crowd rumbles with anticipation. The Knicks, who at this point have already won two of three over the Cavs this season, have a chance to send another message to the team they are expected to face in the first round of the playoffs a few weeks from now. But tonight's showdown offers more than just another checkmark at the end of a long 82-game schedule. New York, at 44-33, sits four games behind the Cavs in fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings. IT'S MARCH 31 and the revitalized New York Knicks are in Cleveland to face the equally upstart Cavaliers.
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