New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek may have the hottest seat in the NBA right now, but he has not lost the confidence of guard Courtney Lee.
Addressing the media on Wednesday, Lee offered a fiery defense of his coach.
“Yeah, man, 100 percent,” Lee said when asked if Hornacek had stepped up this season, per Marc Berman of the New York Post. “You got to realize, we were on a run early on, we hit adversity and you can’t blame anybody for that. Injuries happen. That’s the world we live in today. We have to blame somebody, right? You can’t control that.
“For what, injuries?” he added when told that a lot of fans blamed Hornacek for their subpar year. “For Tim [Hardaway Jr.] having a stress fracture? For KP [Kristaps Porzingis] going down? How you blame coach for that? That’s a question for you. Can you answer that on the record?”
The Knicks went 31-51 in Hornacek’s first year at the helm in 2016-17 and now will likely finish even worse this time around as they currently sit at 27-51.
The list of potential Hornacek replacements is already vast, but it sounds like Lee wants him to get another chance to run it back with a healthier roster.
