Carmelo Anthony: It would be ‘a problem’ if Knicks coaching search is not extensive

There are further indications that the New York Knicks’ offseason is not quite going the way Carmelo Anthony would like.

Anthony spoke to Frank Isola on SiriusXM Radio on Thursday, and admitted that it would be “a problem” if the Knicks weren’t looking for all the qualified candidates they could find for their coaching position.

“I’ve said this and I’ll continue to say it, there needs to be a process,” Anthony said of the coaching search, via Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News. “As long as there’s a process and you go through the proper channels to figure out exactly what you need to do, I don’t have no problem with that. But if you don’t go through that process and at least look to see what’s out there, then we have a problem with that.”

Anthony also gave team president Phil Jackson a rather reserved vote of confidence.

“I have to. My fate is in his hands,” Anthony said, when asked if he believed in Jackson to make the right hire. “I have to believe in him. If I believe that I’m going to be here, I don’t have anybody else to kind of put my fate in.”

Anthony’s preferred choice was reportedly Tom Thibodeau, but he went to Minnesota where he got personnel control and Jackson was said to not have any interest in him anyway. Anthony has pushed for input on the coaching search, but he hasn’t gotten any, and he’s probably going to have to learn to deal with the fact that Jackson has had Kurt Rambis in mind for the position all along. It doesn’t exactly look like the extensive process that Anthony wanted.