Mike Brown won the press conference, but his Knicks mission is a different task
Just about everyone wins the news conference now. Frankly, you won't get hired if you're incapable of winning it.
Gone are the days when Adam Gase can scare small children with his eyes. Gone are the days when Ben McAdoo shows up wearing David Byrne's old suit from his Talking Heads days. Gone are the days when Mickey Callaway all but invites the gathered media to sing 'Kumbaya' as he goes on and on creepily about how much he's going to love his players.
(It doesn't take a full season of 'True Detective' to crack the case of what those three had in common, does it?)
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