The Knicks offered little clarity on the protest they filed, but multiple league sources indicated that the decision to protest the last-second loss in Houston Monday was more of a symbolic gesture than a real belief that the fight would be successful.
"It is what it is," Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. "No one is perfect. People make mistakes. I have great respect for him and the whole crew. It didn't go our way. You just do the things you can do. Every game is important to us. So I respect what our organization is doing as well. I think it's the right thing to do. Let the league decide."
"Don't like our odds?" Thibodeau said with a smile. "Whatever they say we have to do we got to be ready to do. That's the challenge of our league. Sometimes it's back-to-back, four in six [nights], early game, late game, noon. Whatever it is. I think the teams that adapt to the right mentality to face those challenges do a great job knowing, OK, we got to be ready to go. So whatever time they tells us to be ready to go, we'll be ready to go."
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