Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - BONUS: Bill O'Reilly on the New York Knicks Firing Their Coach

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

Why is Bill O'Reilly commenting on the New York Knicks firing their head coach Tom Thibodeau? Listen to his reaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau, the coach, and I, you know, when I saw that, I said, that's not really fair. I mean, a guy brings the team into the third place finish of the NBA. They beat the Celtics, they beat the Pistons, Pistons a good team in the playoffs, and they lose in the third round. But come on, and you fire the guy? Now, you've got to pay him a lot of money because he just signed an extension last year. And that's some solace. But I don't know him. But, oh, I don't know him at all.

But I saw that. I said, whoa, you know, what do you got to do? Even if the guy was shaky, you give him another year, right? Just because he accomplished a lot. So this isn't really a sports story. fairness story. And New York City is by far in a way the toughest town in America. There's nobody even close. I would say Philadelphia is probably second, maybe Boston third. I mean, it's a tough places. A lot of sentiment running around and people are very demanding, very demanding. But boy,

when I saw that, and I don't have any dog in this hunt at all, sorry about the cliche, but I went, hmm, very, very tough. And the overarching on it is that life is not fair. And that you can do, be successful, and you can do everything you're supposed to do and be a good parent, a good employee, a good friend, and then you get stabbed in a back. How often does that happen? There's a reason Judas Ascariat is a prominent place in the New Testament. I mean, here's Jesus walking around doing a lot of good things, and this guy is following them,

watching them do all these good things, and the guy sells them out for 30 pieces of silver, and they nail them to a piece of wood. I mean, there's a reason that story is there. so life is not fair betrayal is everywhere everywhere and you know people don't like to acknowledge it i teach my children that i said look no matter how good intentions you are don't expect people to be fair to you because most of them won't be for a number of reasons selfish reasons or misguided or disturbed emotionally. I mean, on and on and on and on.

But that struck me because it's like if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. And that's true. That's true. I mean, I'm a living example of that. This is my home field here. I've made it big time in New York City. And I'm so proud of that, I can't even tell you.

Because I worked all over the country. I worked in Denver and Dallas and Boston and Hartford and Portland, Oregon. you know, working my way up. And New York is a totally different thing. I know folks here, you better prove it. Okay, you better prove it to me. That's the attitude. But I thought that Thibode did prove it. And I don't usually get this involved with the sports situation, but I'm thinking about it. And there's nothing I can do. I mean, I'm not going to second-guessed The Madison Square Garden people, I mean, they know the team a lot better than I do.

I go to a few games a year. I don't know what's going on. But I do know about performance. And I know that the Badoe performed well. He well paid, yeah. And he's, as I said, they got to pay out his contract. He'll get another job in the league. He doesn't have to worry about that.

But boy, ruthless, cutthroat? Oh, oh, oh, oh. And, you know, professional sports and the media are the two most ruthless industries in the world.