Phil Jackson will get to explain on Thursday evening what inspired him to bet on Derrick Rose and his surgically repaired knees, as Jackson is scheduled to address the news media before the N.B.A. draft begins.
On its own, the multiplayer deal Jackson made Wednesday with the Chicago Bulls offers clues as to what is on his mind as he again reconfigures the Knicks in advance of his third full season as the team’s president.
Not many would have figured Rose to be Jackson’s kind of point guard, Rose appearing to be from the kind of ball-dominant, screen-and-roll, high-volume-shooter school of basketball that Jackson has taken every opportunity to denigrate since he returned to New York.