The New York Knicks fired coach Larry Brown on Thursday, replacing him as coach with president and general manager Isiah Thomas.

"Larry has had a long and storied career. We hired him last summer with the expectation that he would be with the Knicks for a long time. Sometimes decisions work and sometimes they don't," MSG Chairman James L. Dolan said. "After careful consideration, despite the best intentions from everyone involved, this current structure did not work for us last season and I did not think it was going to improve next season."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2496106

[Edited by - JesseDark on 06-22-2006 10:09 AM]

link.

just saw this in the byline during USA-Ghana. STUPID

LARRY BROWN RELIEVED OF HEAD COACHING RESPONSIBILITIES


NEW YORK, June 22, 2006 - Larry Brown has been relieved of his responsibilities as head coach of the New York Knicks it was announced today. Isiah Thomas, who serves as the team's president and general manager, will also assume the role of head coach, effective immediately.

"Larry has had a long and storied career. We hired him last summer with the expectation that he would be with the Knicks for a long time. Sometimes decisions work and sometimes they don't. After careful consideration, despite the best intentions from everyone involved, this current structure did not work for us last season and I did not think it was going to improve next season," MSG Chairman James L. Dolan said. "I have great personal admiration for Larry, but have concluded that it is best for our franchise if we make this change. We understand that fans were not happy with the performance of the team last season and neither were we. We are committed to making major improvements next season towards our goal of producing a winning basketball team."

"No one in our organization is happy with last season and we all accept responsibility for our performance," Thomas said. "This has been a difficult time for the entire organization and our fans. Today begins the 2006-07 season for the Knicks, and I strongly believe we are on the right track to take major steps in our rebuilding process to achieve our goal of being one of the premier teams in the NBA. Larry Brown is a great coach, but for various reasons, bringing him to the Knicks did not turn out the way we had hoped and we wish him the best in the future."

Thomas, who joined the Knicks as president and general manager on Dec. 22, 2003, previously served as a head coach with the Indiana Pacers for three seasons from 2000-01 through 2002-03. Coaching a youthful Pacers team, he compiled a record of 131-115 record, making the playoffs in each of his three seasons.

It must be nice to have your father give you money to burn.

dolan believes in isiah. he does not believe in brown.

Posted by djsunyc:

dolan believes in isiah. he does not believe in brown.

That may be, but once Isiah is coach he'll have to get results or he'll be gone too.

I don't think Dolan likes coaches.

Screw Larry Brown. He got exactly what he asked for.

oohah

I'm glad this was done. I was getting tired of waiting for the axe to fall. It should be interesting watching what Isiah does with this team now.

The downward spiral continues. James Dolan is probably the stupidest person on the face of this planet. He has no idea how to run a sports franchise and now has handed Isiah Thomas the keys to the franchise as GM AND COACH? What other franchise does this? When a GM doesn't perform the GM is fired, except when your the GM of the New York Knicks, you get promoted to coach. This is a dark day in the history of the New York Knick, Isiah Thomas, James Dolan and Steve Mills are going to drive this franchise into the ground and their doing it faster than ever.

Now IT's head is on the chopping block we will see what happens. By the way good riddance to that prissy primadonna. I wonder when will he give an interview