With the announcement of the hiring of Kurt Rambis in Minnesota it would appear that Mark Jackson’s dream of being a head coach in the NBA will again have to wait.
Listen, I wasn’t opposed to Jackson being hired here. In fact I believed, and still do, that Jackson can coach in this league. But, there [...]

As you know, I feel  I’m a NYC point guard historian, and I’ve said countless times that the up and coming guards coming from out of the boroughs now-a-days are scorers first with a solid handle. So by definition they aren’t really  point guards. They are taught to be “scoring” guards. Just because you bring [...]

databasebasketball.com is one of the statistical sites that I rely on to get my information. After reading Tommy’s post about the possibility of Duhon I became intrigued and did some statistical research. Now, let me preface this by saying I am not one to just look at stats, but I was interested in Duhon’s production. [...]

The Suns list of possible coaching candidates to replace Mike D’Antoni is starting to materialize.
Former NBA point guard Mark Jackson is expected to be in Phoenix on Monday and will likely be interviewed for the Suns coaching vacancy, according to Sports 620 KTAR’s John Gambodoro.

As of noon today, Mike D’Antoni hadn’t received any official coaching offers. TheKnicksBlog has learned that D’Antoni has received an offer this afternoon, but not from the New York Knicks. Although the source never claimed it was the Chicago Bulls that made the offer, it’s widely believed that is the case.
Well scratch D’Antoni off the [...]

Newsday spoke to former St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca who believes his former point guard is a good fit for the Knicks.
“He has the credentials,” Looie said. “I think he does.”
“The number one thing, though, he needs to have good players. That’s what has to happen first, before anything. If you don’t have good [...]

Andrew Marchand of 1050 ESPN Radio in New York has reported that Mark Jackson will be named the next Knicks head coach within the next few days.
We haven’t been able to verify this with any other sources. It appears Donnie Walsh wants Jackson on the bench and Jackson certainly wants to be on Walsh’s bench. [...]

It appears as if Mike D’Antoni and the Bulls are close to an agreement.
“NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com on Monday night that Bulls general manager John Paxson came away from two interviews with D’Antoni in Phoenix impressed and seriously interested in the coach who wants to leave the Suns in part because of a tense [...]

Two sources close to the situation have confirmed to TKB that Knicks president of basketball operations Donnie Walsh has in fact, already been in contact with former Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson, but the source also says that the job is Mark Jackson’s to lose.
I am on the record for being very much in [...]

Newsday columnist Shaun Powell opines on the lack of truly “special” coaches that are left in the NBA and believes that the Knicks have never truly recovered from the end of Pat Riley’s tenure. Powell discusses the qualities that a successful NBA coach must possess and wonders if Mark Jackson can translate his basketball acumen [...]