Dallas Mavericks star Kristaps Porzingis never played for former New York Knicks head coach David Fizdale, since he was rehabbing his ACL injury and then got traded to Dallas. But Porzingis says he always liked Fizdale.
When asked about the Knicks' firing of Fizdale, Porzingis said, “They had to sacrifice somebody.”
“Honestly, it is what it is,” Porzingis told Stefan Bondy of The New York Daily News. “For him — I liked him as a coach and as a person for the time I was around. They had to sacrifice somebody. I’m almost glad that….”
Porzingis paused and smiled. Stinging words for the organization were at the tip of his tongue, but the 24-year-old again fell on the side of diplomacy.
“It is what it is and they didn’t have the start that they wanted,” he continued. “It sucks that those kind of things happen, but at the end it’s a business and they had to make a move.”
The Knicks named Mike Miller as interim head coach after firing Fizdale. Porzingis, meanwhile, is thriving with the Mavs and on his way to making the playoffs for the first time in his career.
There are some around the league who believe it doesn't really matter who coaches the Knicks or who the GM or president is. As long as James Dolan is the owner, most New York fans believe the Knicks will always be a walking disaster.
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