Ty Lue blasts Knicks for firing Tom Thibodeau

Tyronn Lue cannot make sense of the Knicks’ decision to move on from Tom Thibodeau.

“Should he have been fired? Hell no,” the Clippers coach said on the Club Shay Shay podcast. “It’s the first time they’ve been to the conference finals in 25 years. The city was on fire, the fans were on fire. The players did a hell of a job. And Thibs did a hell of a job.

“To take a team to their first conference finals in 25 years and then get fired, it just doesn’t make sense.”

Thibodeau, still owed more than $35 million, was let go days after the Knicks were eliminated by Indiana in the East finals. The team offered no explanation beyond Leon Rose saying the organization was “singularly focused on winning a championship.”

Lue was not buying the idea that losing to Indiana was cause for dismissal. The Pacers also knocked out the Bucks and Cavaliers before falling one win short of the title.

“So everybody that Indiana beat, you want to fire their coach?” Lue said.

The Clippers coach added that the move puts unfair pressure on Mike Brown, who takes over in New York with the bar set at nothing less than the Finals.

“That’s a tough spot to be in,” Lue said, noting that unlike when he inherited a Finals team in Cleveland, the Knicks do not have LeBron James to lean on.

Lue also dismissed common critiques about Thibodeau’s heavy minutes load.

“Everywhere he’s been, he wins,” he said. “To do that, I thought it was crazy.”