With coaching legend Phil Jackson set to join the New York Knicks as team president, it was only a matter of time before the inevitable avalanche of pie-in-the-sky stories about the "Lord of the 13 Rings" luring the best player on the planet, LeBron James, to Madison Square Garden.
The first such article to appear in the New York press came from Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, who quoted a James confidant as saying the Miami Heat forward might consider looking at the Knicks during the offseason:
"There’s no way LeBron would have gone to New York under the current climate. He had a falling-out with CAA (agency) and that was a problem as well. But with Phil there I think he will look at it."
For those unfamiliar with the dealings of Knicks owner James Dolan, CAA (Creative Artists Agency) is the group that holds an unrelenting grip on the franchise in one of the strangest symbiotic relationships in all of professional sports. It represents not only players Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith, but also executives Mark Warkentien and Allan Houston.
Even current general manager ...
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