The New York Knicks' depressing 2014-15 season was an anomaly for everyone involved, most of all for team president Phil Jackson. But with Carmelo Anthony (presumably) coming back healthy to a squad upgraded by summer acquisitions, Jackson's Knicks should soon be on the up-and-up.
In his 20 seasons as an NBA head coach with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Jackson never once was responsible for a losing record, let alone a year absent of postseason play. Prior to his recent return to New York, the last time the Zen Master was party to a non-playoff situation came nearly 35 years ago, when he served as an assistant under Kevin Loughery for a 24-win New Jersey Nets squad.
To put that in perspective, that's still seven more victories than the franchise-worst 17 New York accumulated this past season.
Jackson has been part-and-parcel to bad NBA teams as both a player and coach, but never as an executive and never to anything quite so terrible as what the latest edition of the Knicks cobbled together. This past February, Jackson admitted to the New York Times' Harvey Araton that "So far, my experiment ha ...
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