{"id":7121,"date":"2014-03-19T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T08:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=7121"},"modified":"2014-03-19T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T08:17:23","slug":"basketball-jackson-confirmed-as-knicks-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/basketball-jackson-confirmed-as-knicks-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball &#8211; Jackson confirmed as Knicks president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/basket-ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7126\" alt=\"Phil Jackson, new president of the New York Knicks \" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/basket-ball-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/basket-ball-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/basket-ball.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Jackson, new president of the New York Knicks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The news first broke more than a week ago when it was reported that the Knicks wanted Jackson to help bring the franchise back to its championship days and would pay him $12 million per year. Jackson said his contract is for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson will be in charge of the Knicks&#8217; basketball operations. General manager Steve Mills will continue to have a significant role in the team&#8217;s front office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started my career as a Knick and know what it feels like to win in this great city,&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;I take the task of helping to deliver a winning team to our fans seriously, and look forward to combining my vision of the game with Steve Mills&#8217; abilities as a general manager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving hopes his season is not over. After it was announced Monday that the All-Star will miss at least two weeks and eight games with a strained biceps tendon, Irving is encouraged that the injury will not require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you could take a positive from the situation, obviously that would be one, that at this point, I don&#8217;t have to get surgery, which is tremendous,&#8221; Irving said at the shootaround before the Cavaliers&#8217; game against the Miami Heat on Tuesday night. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see in two weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Irving leads the Cavaliers with 21.2 points and 6.2 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Wizards have signed forward Drew Gooden for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Gooden, who signed consecutive 10-day contracts with the team on Feb. 26 and March 8, averages 8.1 points and 4.6 rebounds in 14.6 minutes per game in eight games with the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Kings have signed forward Royce White to a second 10-day contract.<\/p>\n<p>White, signed to a 10-day contract on March 6, had reported to the NBA Development League and averaged 8.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.50 steals and 24.8 minutes in starting starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors have called up guard Nemanja Nedovic and center Ognjen Kuzmic from the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA Development League.<\/p>\n<p>Nedovic averaged 18.3 points, 3.7 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals in three games after he was sent from Golden State to Santa Cruz on March 12. Kuzmic was farmed out to Santa Cruz on Feb. 21 and in 12 games averaged 8.0 points, 13.1 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 1.1 steals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: eurosport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news first broke more than a week ago when it was reported that the Knicks wanted Jackson to help bring the franchise back to its championship days and would pay him $12 million per year. Jackson said his contract is for five years. Jackson will be in charge of the Knicks&#8217; basketball operations. General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[31],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Basketball - Jackson confirmed as Knicks president - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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