Knicks fired coach Thibodeau, who is the 2021 coach of the year.

Clippers coach Lu once talked about the Nuggets coach Malone being fired in April this year: "Don't win the coach of the year, and don't win the championship, because you may be fired within two years... It's too difficult to be a coach."

The Nuggets won the NBA championship in the 2022-23 season, while Tyron Lu led the Cavaliers to win the championship in 2016 and was dismissed in 2018.