{"id":240238,"date":"2026-04-25T06:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/mike-brown-under-fire-for-comment-after-knicks-game-3-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:21:37","slug":"mike-brown-under-fire-for-comment-after-knicks-game-3-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/mike-brown-under-fire-for-comment-after-knicks-game-3-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Brown under fire for comment after Knicks&#8217; Game 3 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/new_york_knicks\/65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a> are suddenly facing a 2-1 deficit in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/atlanta_hawks\/73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>, and coach Mike Brown did not exactly inspire a lot of belief that a comeback is in the offing.<\/p>\n<p>Many Knicks fans sharply criticized Brown for his comments following the Knicks\u2019 109-108 loss to the Hawks at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coach said he had reassured his team that a 2-1 series deficit was not the end of the world and pointed out that the Oklahoma City Thunder fell behind 2-1 twice last season before going on to win the NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOklahoma City was down 1-2 last year and they ended up winning it. I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re going to win it or anything like that,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/mike_brown_under_fire_for_comment_after_knicks_game_3_loss\/s1_127_43767088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks are suddenly facing a 2-1 deficit in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal against the Atlanta Hawks, and coach Mike Brown did not exactly inspire a lot of belief that a comeback is in the offing. Many Knicks fans sharply criticized Brown for his comments following the Knicks\u2019 109-108 loss to the Hawks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}