He was also putting his starters to play 40 minutes a game. The irony was James Dolan letting the black Coach work uninterrupted.
Tom Thibodeau didn’t coach the Knicks to a championship.
He dragged them out of two decades of irrelevance, made winning basketball the expectation, built the culture, and laid the foundation for the team that eventually got there.
Not every architect gets to cut the ribbon.