In 2023-24, coach Tom Thibodeau lead the Knicks to their first 50-win season since 2012-13.
The New York Knicks and Tom Thibodeau are reportedly keeping their successful union in place for even longer.
Per multiple reports, the Knicks and Thibodeau have agreed to a three-year extension that will keep him with the team through the 2027-28 season. In his four seasons at the helm, the Knicks have made the playoffs three times, including a run to the Eastern Conference semifinals in 2024.
ESPN Sources: New York Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau has agreed on a three-year contract extension that’ll take him through the 2027-2028 season. A two-time NBA coach of the year, Thibodeau has led the Knicks to consecutive conference semifinal berths. pic.twitter.com/6sFGkzaT8c
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 24, 2024
Tom Thibodeau is signing an extension with the Knicks, a source confirmed to @FredKatz.
New York has a 175-143 record under Thibodeau with three playoff appearances.
— The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) July 24, 2024
The Knicks hired Thibodeau as coach on July 30, 2020 and he promptly won his second career Coach of the Year award after guiding New York to a 41-31 finish. After a 37-45 misstep in 2021-22, the Knicks bounced back with a 47-35 run in 2022-23 and a 50-32 finish last season, the franchise’s first 50-win season since it went 54-28 in 2012-13.
Thibodeau’s hard-charging ways have paid off for the team as they finished with the No. 2 overall seed in the East despite playing without their entire starting frontcourt of All-Star Julius Randle, OG Anunoby and Mitchell Robinson for a large part of the season. Anunoby and Robinson eventually returned and played some in the postseason, but Randle was eventually shut down for the 2023-24 season and playoffs.
In 12 seasons as a coach with the Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves, Thibodeau is 527-389 in the regular season and 23-28 in the playoffs. His deepest playoff run came in 2011 when he took the Bulls to the Eastern Conference finals.
New York has plenty of talent to contend in the East in 2024-25 and hardly rested on its laurels in the offseason. The Knicks opened things up with a bang by trading for versatile Brooklyn Nets swingman Mikal Bridges, inked Anunoby to a five-year deal and signed star guard Jalen Brunson to a four-year extension.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
