Phil Jackson Has Already Clashed With James Dolan

[jonathanlambert33]

Phil Jackson's formidable task of rebuilding the Knicks and establishing a professional, winning culture at Madison Square Garden has already hit a familiar roadblock: James Dolan.

Just one month into his role as Knicks president, Jackson has already clashed with Dolan, the chairman of Madison Square Garden, over personnel decisions, the Daily News has learned. According to a team source, Jackson is looking to remove several staff members, which is commonplace when a new administration takes over, but Dolan opposes removing certain employees.

According to the source, Dolans reaction to Jacksons request was to tell the 11-time NBA championship coach to simply focus his attention on building a winning team. To say that minor friction, as one Garden source called it, can be classified as Jacksons honeymoon with Dolan being over may be stretching it a bit.

But at the very least it proves that Dolan surprise, surprise wasnt being entirely truthful last month when he claimed he was willingly and gratefully giving up control of the basketball decisions to Jackson, the Hall of Fame coach.


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[Fuhgeddaboudit]

Should just get Dolan out of MSG

 

[Giantmetfan07]

kinda hard to do that. 
 
but either way I take this with a grain of salt. Normally don't pay attention to the garbage the NY Daily News spews out, and this is probably just something being overblown. 

 

[footballplaya52]

Still though, Dolan doesn't have a fucking clue. Just do something else and let Phil do what he wants.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Oh I agree. And I think whenever he had his first sit-down with Phil before hiring him, he minced his words and told him he had full authority to make personnel moves for the team, coaches, etc, while trying his best to exclude the Front Office without Phil realizing. 
 
Although I assume Phil made enough phone calls during "negotations" to find out this was going to happen. He had to have. There's no way he went in to this without numerous people in the league telling him to expect some clashing over decisions, especially in the front office. 
 
Though to be quite honest I don't have a damn clue what Allen Houston does with us, so I can't understand why Dolan's butt-heart about letting guys like Houston and Mills get canned. 

 

[footballplaya52]

Oh I agree. And I think whenever he had his first sit-down with Phil before hiring him, he minced his words and told him he had full authority to make personnel moves for the team, coaches, etc, while trying his best to exclude the Front Office without Phil realizing. 
 
Although I assume Phil made enough phone calls during "negotations" to find out this was going to happen. He had to have. There's no way he went in to this without numerous people in the league telling him to expect some clashing over decisions, especially in the front office. 
 
Though to be quite honest I don't have a damn clue what Allen Houston does with us, so I can't understand why Dolan's butt-heart about letting guys like Houston and Mills get canned. 

Phil should just meet with dolan and have a ring on every finger.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Dude will still think he's smarter. My uncle's company has catered Dolan's 4th of July party in the past and I've met the dude. Biggest self-centered "fuck yeah I'm awesome" asshole on the planet. You should listen to one of the song's by his blues band (but actually no should not listen to it). Nightmare city. 

 

[BwareDWare94]

All that's going to happen in Jackson's tenure with NYK is next to nothing. The Knicks will not become contenders. Phil Jackson is not a wizard. 4-5 years from now this team is still going to be marginal at best.
 
I'll say it again: Phil Jackson is one of the most overrated figures in NBA history. I would put good money on plenty of top coaches who could have his titles if they'd had his superstars. Plain and simple--dude was lucky to be in the situations he was in.

 

[footballplaya52]

But now he has the pull to draw those kinds of players to the Knicks.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

that. If he somehow pulls off keeping Carmelo, which I doubt happens -- I mean hell I expect Carmelo to leave and probably go to Chicago -- but if he somehow keeps him then man he must be convincing. 
 
Though I don't expect them to change until Dolan sells, which will never happen unless he's dragged out of there by a mob. 

 

[elcheato]

Staff member is very vague. Could have been someone apart of the PR staff, business operations, etc..