Phil Jackson has been a polarizing figure during his tenure as team president of the New York Knicks. The one area in which all rational thinkers have agreed upon, however, is that Jackson did well by ignoring the masses and drafting Kristaps Porzingis.
If we’re keeping track of what Jackson has done right and what he’s done wrong, then it may be time to put signing Mindaugas Kuzminskas into the plus column.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: when the Knicks announced the signing of Kuzminskas, many were upset that Jackson chose an enigmatic European player.