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Home » Basketball News

D'Antoni resigns a Knicks coach

March 18, 2012
By Cavalier Dave Forrester of Hugh M Cummings High School



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D’Antoni resigns as Knicks coach

The Associated Press

NEWYORK — Mike D’Antoni resigned Wednesday as coach of the New York Knicks, who are in danger of missing the playoffs when he said they should contend for a championship.

 

Facing a late-season skid and continued questions about his relationship with Carmelo Anthony, D’Antoni put the Knicks through a morning workout, shortly before news broke that he was stepping down.

 

New York has lost six in a row for the second time this season and has fallen into a tie for the eighth and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. The decision came just hours after Anthony denied there was a rift with D’Antoni.

 

The Knicks have struggled since Anthony returned from a groin injury 10 games ago.Therewasspeculationthathe and D’Antoni did not get along, though the All-Star forward said Wednesday he supported the coach “100 percent.”

 

The surprise resignation first was reported by Yahoo Sports.

 

D’Antoni seemed in good spirits Wednesday morning at the team’s training center and said players were, too. He acknowledged the media frenzy around the sinking club but believed the Knicks would handle it.

 

“You battle against it. I think we’re cohesive enough to battle through this, and we expect to do that,” he said.

 

Instead assistant Mike Woodson was preparing to coach against the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday. And certainly there’s already speculation that the Knicks will try to lure a big-name coach such as Phil Jackson or Kentucky’s John Calipari next season.

 

D’Antoni’s departure comes less than a month after he seemed rejuvenated by the emergence of Jeremy Lin, the undrafted point guard from Harvard who came off the end of the bench and proved to be the player who could properly run the offensive system.

 

But the success didn’t last once Anthony returned, with the Knicks going 2-8 in a season that D’Antoni said should see them contend for a championship.

 

Never able to duplicate his success in Phoenix, D’Antoni was headed to his third losing season since signing a $24 million, four-year contract in 2008 that made him one of the NBA’s highest-paid coaches. He never won a playoff game in New York, where the Knicks were focused on the future during his first two years and made numerous changes that didn’t give him much of a chance to compete.
Mike D’Antoni resigned from coaching the New York Knicks on Wednesday

 

 

The Associated Press 

 

 


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