Phil Jackson to Head Knicks’ Front Office
Phil Jackson, who won 11 N.B.A. championships as a coach and is one of the league’s most admired figures, has agreed to return to the Knicks after three-plus decades to head the team’s front office.
Negotiations between Jackson and James L. Dolan, the Knicks’ owner, played out over several weeks.
Jackson, 68, who was a part of the Knicks’ championship era as a player in the early 1970s, has unrivaled qualifications as a coach: six championships with the Chicago Bulls, and five more with the Los Angeles Lakers. He has the highest winning percentage for a coach in league history (.705), along with the most playoff victories (229). He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.
But he has never held a position in a front office, let alone run one, and his first project is a doozy: resuscitate the Knicks after years of mismanagement. Despite having the league’s second-highest payroll, the Knicks are in danger of missing the playoffs for the seventh time in the last 10 seasons.
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