Mere days after falling to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, the New York Knicks did the thing that NBA franchises do when they don’t know what to do: They canned their coach.In his 13 years as an NBA sideline general,

Jeff Teague suggested that the Knicks would have won if they switched coaches, claiming that Tom Thibodeau's style of coaching is "old" and that Brunson needed to emulate Stephen Curry's style of play.

This was not about a moral victory. It wasn’t about taking solace in anything after a hard-fought series. Jalen Brunson wanted to make that clear.