This Week in Sports Trivia: June 5, 2025

For Tom Thibodeau, reaching the Eastern Conference finals was not enough. The coach discovered that harsh reality on Tuesday, when the New York Knicks showed him the door.

Thibodeau was just the latest NBA coach with a track record of success to lose his job this season, joining Michael Malone (Nuggets) and Taylor Jenkins (Grizzlies). Thibodeau’s firing was even surprising enough that Rick Carlisle, whose Indiana Pacers ended the Knicks’ season, said he thought the news was “one of those fake AI things.” It was all too real.

Still, the sports world kept on spinning this week, and the news wasn’t all negative, with the Pacers taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals, and the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers locking horns in the Stanley Cup Final. Heck, even the Colorado Rockies, who entered the week with a 9-50 record, went on a heater of sorts.

All of that is included in our latest news quiz, so we hope you’ve been paying attention.

Good luck, and if you have a moment, you should play our daily Connections: Sports Edition, too!

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