In today's Knicks news update, 18-year NBA veteran Jerry Stackhouse's next career move could be as an assistant coach or staff member with the New York Knicks.
Per Scott Howard-Cooper of NBA.com, "Stackhouse said he talked with the Hawks last summer, soon after retiring, about staying in his adopted hometown as a player-development coach and that he met with new president Phil Jackson about a role with the Knicks in 2014-15."
The New York Knicks are putting the majority of their staff decisions off until they find their new head coach, but Stackhouse indicates that “there could be some realistic possibilities coming in.”'
“I enjoyed this year, just doing some broadcasting, doing radio and still being able to build what I want to do from a basketball standpoint coaching wise,” he said, via Howard-Cooper's blog post on Saturday. “But I think I’m ready. When you look at the guys that had completely no experience, like Jason (Kidd) last year and his success, I think that’s what it’s going to. It’s going to coaches that can really understand these players now. That’s the key.”
Name-checking former players such as Jason Kidd and Mark Jackson who had zero coaching experience before landing head coaching roles, Stackhouse believes he could be the next to make the jump successfully.
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