The Knicks are not the first case when they are blatantly poaching people!
3:04pm, 12 June 2025Basketball
Boldly poaching competitor employees, this phenomenon can only happen in the NBA.
The Knicks's vision of picking people is quite fierce, and they only choose the head coaches who have successfully tested the other teams.
For example, Finch, who helped the Timberwolves break into the Western Conference Finals, trained the Rockets to enter the second place in the Western Conference this season, and helped the Mavericks reach the finals last season.
But, how could the management easily let go of such a core backbone? After all, it is difficult to choose a suitable head coach at the moment, and it is easy to lose money.
For example, the Pistons fired Monty Williams, who had been 80 million in five years, and the Suns quit Bourdenholzer, who had been 40 million in four years. Both coaches have only been using them for one year, and these are cases where others have paid expensive tuition fees.
However, the Knicks' behavior of poaching the current head coach is supported by NBA rules. Lao Liu took stock of the cases of the team trading the current head coach, which has happened 4 times in NBA history!
Year
Coach
Transfer out of the team
Transfer into the team
Trade chips
2005
Jeff Van Gundy
Knicks
Rockets
54th pick in the second round of 2005
Stan Van Gundy
Heat
Magic
39th pick in the second round of 2007
+ The 52nd pick in the second round of 2008
2013
Doug Rivers
Celtics
Clippers
2015 unprotected first-round pick (eventually turned into RJ Hunter)
2014
Jason Kidd
Nets
Bucks
2015 second-round pick + 2019 second-round pick
Old Liu blindly guessed that after going around in circles, the Knicks may eventually sign former Nuggets champion coach Mike Malone.
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