By ALEX RASKIN

Add Quin Snyder to the list of NBA coaches the New York Knicks aren’t allowed to speak with.

ESPN’s Shams Charania is reporting the Knicks asked permission to speak with the Atlanta Hawks head coach about their own vacant head-coaching position, only for the Hawks to firmly deny that request.

Daily Mail has reached out to Knicks and Hawks spokespeople for comment. 

Since firing Tom Thibodeau after the team’s most successful season in a quarter century, the Knicks have also been denied permission to speak with Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Chris Finch and the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Kidd.

The Knicks got more bad news over the weekend when former Villanova coach Jay Wright pulled his name from the running. Wright had been linked to the Knicks because he previously coached current New York stars Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart with the Villanova Wildcats. 

In 2020, Knicks president Leon Rose interviewed Kidd and Udoka, both of whom briefly played for New York, only to name Thibodeau, a former Knicks assistant, as the team’s new coach.

Now, after the Knicks fell to the underdog Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, Thibodeau was fired and the team is now desperately searching for his replacement.

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Add Quin Snyder to the list of NBA coaches the New York Knicks aren’t allowed to speak with

Add Quin Snyder to the list of NBA coaches the New York Knicks aren’t allowed to speak with

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Knicks dealt ANOTHER blow in head-coach search as Hawks block interview with Atlanta’s Quin Snyder

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