Knicks Morning News (2017.06.29)

Jackson attempted to trade Anthony during the season and had reiterated that desire last week. He had also irked Anthony with comments he made during the season about Anthony’s style of play.

In the latest installment of JRSportBrief on SNY.tv, JR takes a deeper look at Phil Jackson parting from the Knicks.

Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek was “somber and shaken-looking” when asked about Phil Jackson’s departure this morning at the club’s first summer-league practice in Orlando.

One of Ujiri’s first moves when he was with the Nuggets in 2011 was to trade Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks.

Knicks fans Spike Lee, Michael Rapaport, and others reacted on Wednesday after news broke that the Knicks and team president Phil Jackson were parting ways.

Knicks owner James Dolan has fired team president Phil Jackson, and is targeting Toronto’s Masai Ujiri as his replacement.

The Knicks and free agent point guard Jeff Teague have mutual interest, according to Ian Begley of ESPN.

Sources: Knicks’ focus on free agency, for now

Phil Jackson’s biggest failure was letting the game pass him by

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Reaction roundup: Knicks superfan Spike Lee celebrates Phil Jackson’s departure

Here are five pressing questions the Knicks must answer now that Phil Jackson’s gone: Figuring the triangle is a thing of the past, what is Jeff Hornacek’s offensive plan? People close to Hornacek believe he’ll return to the exciting, rapid-paced motion offense of his Phoenix days that worked so well his first year there. Blending…

Was Phil Jackson the worst executive in New York Sports history?Here are some of the other candidates: M. Donald Grant Mets Chairman of the Board, 1962-78 Grant is credited for hiring Gil Hodges as manager in 1968, and the Miracle Mets won the World Series the next season. His watch included another NL pennant in…

ORLANDO, Fla. — Even with Phil Jackson out of his way, things aren’t yet peachy-keen for Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks. He can breathe easier but not easy. The Vertical reported the Knicks still are looking to deal Anthony (though they’re unwilling to buy him out). The club, which doesn’t have anyone to replace Jackson…

If social media is any indication, celebrity and everyday Knicks fans are thrilled owner James Dolan fired Phil Jackson. Be warned, some of the happy fans’ language was graphic:

Maybe, just maybe, if the Knicks can pull this off, they will be the ones committing highway robbery and doing the fleecing. Toronto’s Masai Ujiri is emerging as the hoped-for candidate for the Knicks to replace Phil Jackson. After three years of Knicks wandering in the wilderness under a great coach but dreadful executive, Ujiri…

Now that Phil Jackson is out the door, Kristaps Porzingis is back on board with the Knicks. At least, that’s what a quick glance at the young Latvian star’s social media accounts indicate. At 9:31 a.m. Wednesday, the Knicks issued a press release to announce they were parting ways with their president of basketball operations….

Chris Paul wasn’t happy with family coming before team. Paul’s decision to sign with the Rockets — forcing the Clippers to trade him after he opted into the final year of his contract — stemmed from his frustration with coach and team president Doc Rivers favoring son Austin, according to ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor and former…

ORLANDO — A somber and shaken-looking Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek thanked Phil Jackson for hiring him 13 months ago and called it “a tough day for us.’’ Speaking at the end of the Knicks’ first summer-league practice in Orlando, Hornacek would not take questions from the media, only willing to make a quick statement about…

Phil Jackson joined the Knicks as team president in March 2014 to much fanfare and paeans to the team’s glory days. He was fired Wednesday having lost the trust of the fan base, the loyalty of the team’s best players … and a lot of games. For every ring he won and Zen Master stroke…

The existential basketball strategy reportedly collapsed under the weight of its own pretension in the front office of the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

Jackson, who won 11 N.B.A. titles as a coach with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, never translated that success to the front office with the Knicks.

The Knicks’ landscape is not as hopeless as it may seem, but the future requires years of rebuilding without interference.

He was part of the Knicks’ only championship era, and won a mind-boggling 11 titles as a coach of the Bulls and Lakers. But even Phil Jackson couldn’t resurrect the Knicks. He was dismissed as team president on Wednesday. It was a rocky three-year ride.

According to multiple reports, the Los Angeles Clippers point guard will join James Harden in Houston.

Russell, the Boston Celtics star, recalls in a Q. and A. how he and his peers transformed basketball and perceptions of blacks in professional sports.

If the Knicks have a basketball plan for life after Phil Jackson, they kept it from the media on Wednesday.

If you can’t beat Masai Ujiri, try to hire him to fix a flaming mess.

Jackson’s next book is going to be a doozy, assuming of course that his divorce settlement with James Dolan doesn’t include a gag order.

Long-suffering Knicks fans reacted to the departure of team president Phil Jackson as if the franchise had just won a championship.

Phil Jackson made plenty of bad decisions with the Knicks, but here are his worst 10.

The triangle is dead.

With ex-Knicks president Phil Jackson now gone, what does this mean for the rest of the organization?

When you look back at the Zen Master’s time in New York, one thing becomes abundantly clear: He lost a lot more than he won.

Phil Jackson’s failed tenure as Knicks president unsurprisingly coincided with his failed attempt at sustaining a social media presence.

As Knicks president Phil Jackson leaves the team after a three-year run, take a look back at his reign on the back pages of the Daily News.

Masai Ujiri is the Knicks’ top target to replace fired president Phil Jackson in New York, according to The Vertical.

So all along, James Dolan wasn’t saying “Ask Phil.” He was saying “Axe Phil.”

He got one last thing wrong, Phil Jackson did, the night before the NBA draft when he was looking for a soft place to land.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Phil Jackson’s departure means the Knicks won’t be playing the triangle offense anymore, but it doesn’t necessarily signal that Carmelo Anthony will remain.

The Knicks parted ways with team president Phil Jackson on Wednesday, the team announced.

John McEnroe’s most visible job these days is being a tennis analyst on television, but in his spare time he is an avid Knicks fan, and as such he naturally has some thoughts on the team parting ways with Phil Jackson — most of them positive.

The Knicks need to give peace a chance. Nothing else has worked in this century, up to and including the maddening, not-so-Zen detour that was Phil Jackson’s three-year ka-ching of a term.