A case can be made for the mind-numbing career numbers LeBron James has put up. But Michael Jordan will always have the trump card: Six NBA Finals, six titles, six Finals MVPs.

Five-year head coach Tom Thibodeau was let go earlier this summer, on the heels of the Knicks' first Eastern Conference Finals berth in 2000, a matchup with the Indiana Pacers. Rose pivoted, inking ...