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NY Knicks News| New York Knicks Fire Jeff Hornacek!| The Top 8 Candidates To Coach The Knicks | 

The Knicks fire head coach Jeff Hornacek right after the Knicks season finale win over the Cavs.  Who will coach the Knicks? According to sources, the top 8 candidates to replace Jeff Hornacek are Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy, David Fizdale, David Blatt, Jerry Stackhouse, Jay Wright, Jason Kidd and Monty Williams. 

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Jeff Hornacek was hoping to convince New York Knicks brass that he deserved another season as the team's head coach during Thursday's exit meetings. Apparently, he won't get that chance.

The Knicks announced Thursday that they fired Hornacek after two seasons as the team's coach upon the team's return to New York after the season finale Wednesday. The Knicks won 110-98 in Cleveland in Hornacek's final game, with President Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry delivering the news afterward.

The Knicks finished this season at 29-53, going 5-20 after the season-ending knee injury to Kristaps Porzingis. They have the ninth-best chance to win the lottery (full odds here). Nothin but Knicks.  Overall, Hornacek was 60-104 during his tenure in New York.

Wojnarowski also reported that former Memphis Grizzlies coach David Fizdale, former Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt, former Golden State coach Mark Jackson and Jerry Stackhouse, coach of the G League Raptors 905, will all be considered for the vacancy. Jackson played five seasons with the Knicks to begin his career, and returned for 29 games during the 2000-01 season. (via cbs sports)

The New York Knicks fired head coach Jeff Hornacek, multiple sources confirmed to The Washington Post.

Hornacek was informed of the decision following a 110-98 road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers to close the regular season Thursday night. The loss brought New York’s record to 29-53, and left the Knicks with the ninth best odds in next month’s NBA Draft Lottery.

The Knicks will announce the decision, which was first reported by ESPN, on Thursday morning.

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The decision to let Hornacek go is not a surprise. Hired two years ago by Phil Jackson to replace Derek Fisher, Hornacek was inherited by the new regime of team president Steve Mills and General Manager Scott Perry, and the expectation was that they would be inclined to bring in their own coach.

Hornacek went 60-104 in his two seasons with the Knicks, and is 161-216 over four-plus seasons with the Knicks and Phoenix Suns. But between the dysfunction atop the organization over the first year he was in charge and losing Kristaps Porzingis to a torn anterior cruciate ligament this year, it’s fair to say Hornacek never got a fair shake in New York, either. (Washington Post)

Hornacek’s tenure, which produced a record of 60-104, was troubled from the start. Anthony and Porzingis were not a natural pairing, and Jackson’s biggest moves — signing Joakim Noah and trading for Derrick Rose — were duds.

Without much talent to work with, the Knicks never established a clear identity, frustrating Hornacek with their defensive inconsistency (they are ranked 22nd in defense) and looking a step behind the league’s best offenses. Hornacek’s dismissal was an expected part of the new regime’s efforts to retool the team.

Before coaching his last game on Wednesday in Cleveland, Jeff Hornacek told reporters that he would “love to continue with these guys.”

He added: “You expect a rebuilding situation to go out there and win 50 games? That’s why they call it rebuilding. But when you mention rebuilding, you’re still trying to win games.”

But Hornacek will no longer lead that turnaround. He had one year left on his three-year, $15 million contract.

Jeff is a true professional who has worked tirelessly for this organization the last two seasons,’’ Mills and Perry said in their statement. “We sincerely appreciate his efforts and considerable contributions to the team and wish him well in his future endeavors.”

The Knicks did not give a timeline for hiring a new coach. Two names that have surfaced as possible successors: Doc Rivers and Mark Jackson. Rivers — who played for the Knicks from 1992 to 1994 — is the coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson, who coached the Golden State Warriors from 2011 to 2014, played for the Knicks from 1987 to 1992 and again in 2001 and 2002.

Hornacek, 54, was hired to instill Jackson’s philosophies — namely, the triangle offense — and compete for a spot in the playoffs. Perry, who was hired last summer as Jackson’s replacement, kept him to maintain a level of continuity in hopes of retooling around Porzingis, the Knicks’ franchise player. (NY Times)

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