By Dennis D’Agostino
Knicks Team Historian
In the furthermost reaches of the Official NBA Register, in the section devoted to the game’s all-time greatest coaches, there on pages 426 and 427, the records of Red Holzman and Phil Jackson are side-by-side.
For anyone who believes in fate, the cosmos or destiny, that is no mere coincidence.
Red’s influence is hovering over much of what is going on around the Knicks these days, this sea change that has rocked the NBA and set the world’s greatest basketball city aflame.
When you start to ponder what it all means for the Knicks to have Phil Jackson in the fold, take a moment to look past the glittering coaching record ---- the record-busting 11 NBA Championships, the 1,155 coaching wins (fifth all-time), the legacies of some of the game’s greatest players ---- and remember that, when you strip it down to the basics, Phil Jackson is coming home.