NYK '14 offseason thread

What ninja turtle are you?

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I don't know if Jeff wants to work with Phil after all the heart breaks and feelings he caught from the Bulls
 
Don't cry for Mark now 
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It frustrates me that Jason Kidd is unable to draw up a semi-decent play with seconds remaining and instead needs one of the assistant coaches to do it instead (yes that happened)
 
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@MSGNetworks: It's Mtl-NYR in Conf Finals. Nets season over. Time for A Few Good Men, coming up @MSGNetworks. Can You handle the truth?
 
WOW, Kerr really used the Knicks to get a huge pay day for his 1st coaching job. Forget if he coaches the full 5 cuz more than likely the GSW will fire him after 3 and he'll still get paid.

I been gone for the last 10 pgs of activity or so but it's still **** Mark Jackson. Also from what I read in here didn't JVG get the coaching job in DET as well as president of Op. job?

Also **** Spike Lee. It's one thing to be at the game, it's another to switch up. If I was him I would've shown up in Knicks gear head to toe.

Let Phil work with w/e his back-up is gonna be none of it bothers me much money wise.
 
Steve Kerr has spurned the New York Knicks and accepted a five-year, $25 million offer to become the Golden State Warriors' next coach, saying "it just felt like the right move on many levels."

"They have a good young team. The location is ideal," Kerr said in a phone interview with NBA.com. "My daughter goes to Cal and plays volleyball. My oldest son is in college in San Diego and our youngest is a junior in high school. It's just a short flight for them."

Kerr had been in talks with the Knicks about becoming their next coach after Phil Jackson took over as team president in March.

A league source with knowledge of the negotiations told ESPN.com the Knicks had preferred to sign Kerr to a four-year deal rather than the five-year pact he received from Golden State.

Multiple sources also said Kerr told new Knicks president Phil Jackson he chose the Warriors for family reasons. Sources also said that Kerr preferred the Warriors' job to the Knicks' job all along, but it was a difficult decision because of his relationship with Jackson.

"Ultimately, it was agonizing to say no to Phil because of what I think of him and what he's done for my career," Kerr said, according to NBA.com. "When Phil Jackson asks you to coach the Knicks, how do you say no? I think they're going to turn it around, but going to be a big undertaking and it's going to take time. The idea of doing that 3,000 miles from home, it just didn't feel right."

Kerr won three titles playing for Jackson in Chicago.

"I told Phil, 'I think I have to pursue this other opportunity,' " Kerr said. "He gave me his blessing. He said go look at it, and do what was in my heart."

Kerr won another two NBA championships under Gregg Popovich in San Antonio but has never been a head coach. Kerr spent three seasons as general manager of the Phoenix Suns before stepping down in June 2010.

Warriors owner Joe Lacob, speaking to USA Today, said the team "went out and we wanted to find the best guy to lead this team to the next level."

"Yes, it's true, (Kerr) has not coached before," Lacob said, according to USA Today. "But this is what management is all about. You have to be able to pick people, and he is incredibly prepared. ... every detail you can imagine. He knew our roster in and out. He had assistant coaches he wanted to go after. It was like a tour de force.

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"Look, at the end of the day I know he knows a lot about basketball," Lacob added. "We're taking a little bit of a risk on his coaching ability, but we did that with Mark and it worked. So it's just about finding the right fit for the organization and a guy who has extremely high potential, is a hard worker and is very prepared. That's what we have got."

Sources said Kerr was under the impression that the Warriors preferred Stan Van Gundy to him, but when the Detroit Pistons swooped in to land Van Gundy, Kerr became the Warriors' top choice -- and he theirs.

Kerr was represented in negotiations by Priority Sports' Mike Tannenbaum, former general manager of the New York Jets.

"It just came down to a personal decision," said Priority CEO Mark Bartelstein, who served as Kerr's agent throughout his playing career. "These are two great jobs. There were no problems with the Knicks. This was not about what the Knicks did or didn't do. This was about Steve, in his heart, deciding that Golden State was a better fit right now for him and his family."

The Warriors met Tuesday with Kerr before his TNT broadcast in Oklahoma City and appeared to remain in the running for him alongside the Knicks, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Sources told ESPN.com that the Warriors, after initially believing they had no shot at Kerr because he was "too deep" into his negotiations with the Knicks, started pressing him as hard as they could to try to change his mind after Golden State's other top coaching target -- Van Gundy -- struck a deal with the Pistons.

The Knicks, sources said, had been strong favorites to land Kerr, largely because of his longstanding relationship with Jackson.

Golden State, though, offered a roster headlined by star guard Stephen Curry and the ability for Kerr to take over a 51-win team in his home state. Kerr is a Southern California native and has lived in San Diego for years.

Kerr replaces Mark Jackson, who was fired after the Warriors' first-round loss to the Los Angeles Clippers in seven games in the wake of mounting tension between him and the front office.

The Knicks must now regroup after centering their initial search for Mike Woodson's replacement on Kerr. But sources with knowledge of the situation said that Oklahoma City guard Derek Fisher and Lakers assistant coach Kurt Rambis, both of whom are close to Phil Jackson, are likely to be considered.

Information from ESPN.com's Marc Stein, ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne, ESPNNewYork.com's Ian Begley and The Associated Press was used in this report.
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