The New York Knicks have failed to sign high-profile free agents during Phil Jackson’s tenure as team president. Between the inability to secure meetings with LaMarcus Aldridge and Kevin Durant, and being spurned by DeAndre Jordan and Greg Monroe, it hasn’t been pretty.
As Jackson publicly moves on from his attempts to build around Carmelo Anthony, however, free agency can be altered, if not temporarily dismissed, as a barometer for his success.
If building around Anthony is out of the question, then Jackson must turn his attention to the NBA Draft. While his critics have focused on the players he’s failed to sign and the others whom he’s alienated, The Zen Master has been plotting to do exactly that.