The New York Knicks are available in the market for a brand new coach after firing Tom Thibodeau, and their focus is on established, skilled coaches. The Knicks are reportedly planning on requesting permission to interview Mavericks coach Jason Kidd for the job — with the Rockets declining to permit them to do so with Ime Udoka.
Whereas different not too long ago fired huge identify NBA coaches make up a lot of the remainder of their anticipated candidate checklist — Taylor Jenkins, Michael Malone, Frank Vogel, Mike Budenholzer and Mike Brown — their roster full of former Villanova stars made many marvel if retired Wildcats coach Jay Wright could be a candidate as nicely. On Saturday, CBS Sports activities’ Matt Norlander obtained phrase that Wright is just not a candidate for the job regardless of his connection to lots of the crew’s stars and GM Leon Rose.
As that information traveled across the NBA, it reached one in all his former Villanova stars on the Knicks, Josh Hart. Hart could not resist providing a public response to Wright not being a candidate, fortunately telling his former coach to “keep retired.”
Hart, Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges all performed for Wright and received nationwide titles at Villanova with him, however Hart appears to choose to let these fond recollections stay previously and to not try to run it again in New York. NBA groups have lengthy been in Wright, however he appears genuinely blissful to be retired and doing TV evaluation, which brings far much less stress than what he’d face taking on a Knicks crew with title-or-bust expectations.