As that news traveled around the NBA, it reached one of his former Villanova stars on the Knicks, Josh Hart. Hart couldn't resist offering a public response to Wright not being a candidate, happily telling his former coach to "stay retired."

Josh Hart Has Hilarious Reaction to Knicks Head Coaching News originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The New York Knicks shocked many when they decided to move on from Tom Thibodeau following the team's elimination to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. They will now have one of the top coaching vacancies in the NBA.

“We put ourselves in this position,” Hart said Thursday morning at Knicks shootaround ahead of Game 5. “This series could easily have been 2-2 right now, [or] 3-1 us. A couple of mistakes that we made put us in this position.” There was the epic choke in Game 1, when the Knicks led by 14 with 2:45 left in the fourth quarter.