Is there reason for optimism for the New York Knicks after a rough start that might lead to another coaching change?
According to a report on Monday from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and Malika Andrews, Knicks president Steve Mills had started to lay the groundwork for replacing second-year coach David Fizdale before an unusual postgame news conference on Sunday with general manager Scott Perry in which Mills said, "The team is not performing to the level that we anticipated or we expected to perform at."
To the outside world, those expectations were overly hopeful after a summer when New York used its treasure trove of cap space to sign lower-tier free agents to contracts with limited guarantees beyond this season.