{"id":41376,"date":"2014-03-18T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41376"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:24:52","slug":"n-d-native-jackson-knicks-team-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41376","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Native, Jackson, Knicks Team President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/jacksonphil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41377\" alt=\"jacksonphil\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/jacksonphil.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Phil Jackson has returned to the New York Knicks as their team president.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Knicks announced Jackson&#8217;s hiring Tuesday at a news conference in the lobby of Madison Square Garden, where a giant sign reading &#8220;Welcome Home Phil&#8221; was overhead and shirts with the No. 18 Jackson wore as a player lined the racks in the merchandise store.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jackson was a member of the Knicks&#8217; championship-winning teams in 1970 and 1973, but they haven&#8217;t won a title since. Jackson went on to become the league&#8217;s most successful coach, winning 11 championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This will be his first time as an executive and the Knicks say he will be in charge of all basketball decisions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Mills will remain as general manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Phil Jackson has returned to the New York Knicks as their team president. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Knicks announced Jackson&#8217;s hiring Tuesday at a news conference in the lobby of Madison Square Garden, where a giant sign reading &#8220;Welcome Home Phil&#8221; was overhead and shirts with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41378,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions\/41378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}