Jerry Recco

This is why you don't listen to the effing players.

Well, right now – You don't listen to them.

You tell them we are paying you a hell of a lot of money, and you are working for us, and you are wearing our uniform, and we run the organization, not you.

Yeah.

This is why you do that.

And I know it's the NBA, so you might as well forget it.

That's not going to happen.

But, you know –

if you listen to the fans or you listen to the players and you don't make... And by the way, Leon Rose, for the most part, has done everything pretty good.

I think we're all pretty happy with where the Knicks have been over the last three or four years under Leon Rose's stewardship.

Absolutely.

Now, we have talked before, and one of the age-old adages, if you're going to get rid of a guy as a head coach, you better know who you're replacing him with.

And there are times where I'll push back on that because...

Sometimes you don't know who is out there.

You haven't talked to everybody.

And you've made a decision on a head coach where, like, this guy isn't the right guy to get us over the hump, so we have to go out there and have a search.

So that's normally my response to that take.

But when it comes to this Tibbs situation...

it's exactly the opposite of what I believe.

Because they didn't have a plan.