NEW YORK — If you want to tag along on Phil Jackson's long, strange NBA journey, it's best to tighten your seatbelt and load up on the Dramamine. The road is twisted, the driver wickedly unpredictable.
There may be jarring detours through Sioux City, Iowa, and the plains of Nebraska, and there's no telling where or how the trip will end.
Or who will be sitting in the passenger seat when it's all over.
Sometime in the last few days, Jackson locked in on Jeff Hornacek as his top choice to coach the New York Knicks, zooming past David Blatt, Frank Vogel and Kurt Rambis and stunning the entire basketball world in the process.
As B/R first reported Wednesday night, the Knicks and Hornacek are moving toward a deal, though formal contract negotiations had not yet begun. One source monitoring the talks called Hornacek's hiring "a foregone conclusion," saying that all parties "want to make this happen." Another source confirmed, "It's as close as humanly possible."
This was not the conclusion anyone expected.
Rambis was widely viewed as Jackson's top choice, because of their longtime f ...
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