{"id":445914,"date":"2025-06-11T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=445914"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:02:25","slug":"new-york-knicks-denied-permission-to-speak-with-udoka-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-york-knicks-denied-permission-to-speak-with-udoka-finch\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks denied permission to speak with Udoka, Finch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1310\">The <strong data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1140\">New York Knicks<\/strong> were blocked from interviewing <strong data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1185\">Ime Udoka<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1190\" data-end=\"1205\">Chris Finch<\/strong>, sources told ESPN. Both coaches are coming off strong seasons with Houston and Minnesota, respectively.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1312\" data-end=\"1501\">The Knicks fired <strong data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1346\">Tom Thibodeau<\/strong> last week despite reaching the Eastern Conference finals. They\u2019ve also been linked to <strong data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1447\">Jason Kidd<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-expect-jason-kidd-to-stay-as-head-coach\/\">but Dallas is expected to reject any formal request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1680\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Former Villanova coach <strong data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1540\">Jay Wright<\/strong> has also reportedly declined interest. New York\u2019s coaching search remains wide open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1680\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1628\" data-end=\"1642\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s search for a new coach hits roadblocks as Rockets and Wolves refuse to let their coaches talk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-445914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445914"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=445914"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=445914"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=445914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}