NEW YORK (AP) — Phil Jackson offered a mea culpa for the New York Knicks’ horrendous first half of the season but says he’s doing what’s best for the franchise’s future.
Days after trading away two of the team’s best players and getting little in return, Jackson says that “now I have to do the job that I was brought in to do.”
The Knicks entered Saturday with an NBA-worst 5-34 record and on the longest single-season skid in team history— 14 straight games. Jackson had said before his first full season as the team’s president of basketball operations that he thought the Knicks were capable of contending for a playoff spot, but now says that “they obviously weren’t.”
Jackson says he hopes to bring in five to six new players next season.
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