The Warriors’ dynasty has come at the Knicks’ expense.
Don Nelson got the last laugh at the Knicks by taking Stephen Curry with the seventh pick in 2009 — one spot ahead of Mike D’Antoni’s Knicks. The Curry-to-the-Knicks furor put the electric point guard out of Davidson on the lottery radar.
In 2014, Warriors ownership got lucky to get knocked out in the first round by the Clippers. Had Golden State advanced the second round, Kerr would be the Knicks head coach, cementing what had been a verbal agreement with Phil Jackson.
The Warriors came after Kerr hard, and Kerr asked Jackson permission to back out of the verbal agreement.